New Jersey-born Nick DiDia has made a lasting impact in both his home country and his adopted Australia, contributing to an impressive number of era-defining albums as a recording engineer. Working closely with producer Brendan O’Brien, he had a hand in making some of the most popular rock albums of the 1990s, including early career highlights from Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, and Rage Against the Machine. DiDia began a fruitful creative association with Bruce Springsteen in the early 2000s and captured Train in heartfelt full flight on the band’s 2001 smash hit “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me).” After producing a run of ARIA Award-winning albums by Brisbane rockers Powderfinger—including the rich-in-scope 2000 classic Odyssey Number Five—he relocated to Byron Bay. Since then he has balanced work with rising Aussie acts and international heavyweights while also circling back to his ’80s-era hard-rock roots by nurturing the like-minded Los Angeles act Dirty Honey.