Studio Recording
We’ll be honest. We do not have a full-fledged recording studio, complete with ISO booths, a “live” room, and a green room with lava lamps and a wet bar . . . yet. We also don’t have the overhead, maintenance, and other expenses associated with such a facility, which allows us to be extremely competitive on “stand alone” recording projects.
We have successfully done a number of complete recording projects from tracking to production, through judicious use of the available facility, careful project planning, and by using state-of-the-art tools and techniques.
See and hear some examples of these projects on our “Portfolio” section, under Recording.
Location recording
There is nothing like a live show, with a responsive audience, to bring out the best in most performers. The energy, spontaneity, and enthusiasm of an inspired performance is virtually impossible to replicate in a traditional studio environment.
Unlike a studio recording, however, little “flubs” which may well go unnoticed in the live show stick out like sore thumbs in a recording of that same event. Thanks to the powerful tools available in today’s Digital Audio Workstations (DAW’s), these anomalies can often be fixed or rendered inaudible during post-production of a multi-track recording, as long as good microphone selection and techniques are employed, and reasonably sufficient isolation exists between instruments at the venue. There's a reason they're called "Laws of Physics", and not merely "Suggestions".
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It’s a shame to let one bad chord, note, drum hit, or lyric mar an otherwise stellar performance.
Our DAW of choice is the de facto industry standard, “ProTools”, and it allows us to take a multi-track recording and perform any needed edits, sweetening, and other “tweaks”, and produce a recording that you can be proud to claim as your own.
We use a 24-track hard disk recorder to capture the tracks from our front-of-house console on live shows, along with any additional mics needed for audience, room ambience, etc., then bring those tracks back to the studio, “fly" them into ProTools, and go to work.
If you have your own access to a DAW setup, or have a post-production house you prefer to work with, we can also handle just the tracking portion of the project, and hand off industry-standard .WAV files to you or your production facility.
See and hear some examples of these projects on our “Portfolio” section, under Recording.
Post production
Perhaps you have your own tracks, and just need them “fixed”, mixed, and mastered. We can import just about any type of audio into ProTools and do the post-production for you, including converting tape or other sources to digital, cleaning up “weak” or noisy recordings,
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