We do everything from
tracking through mastering here in our concrete and sheet metal studio. We also
record your live gig, or bring our studio-in-a-box to your house.
It's all done on a patchwork of low-end gear that keeps growing
despite our efforts to be minimalistic. There are piles of tangled cables, boxes
full of cheap headphones (some of which work), blue sparkle guitars and drums, and stuff
everywhere that is more important the more it looks like junk. And the walls are
decorated with rusty gas cans found on our 40-acre ranch here in the desert of southern
Colorado.
If you want to know how it sounds when your music or spoken word
project is dragged, kicking and screaming, through our frighteningly transparent system
(which has been infiltrated by digital sand), drop us a line. |
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| Are we any good?
Please listen and tell us what you think... |
| Studio Recording (complex
production) - Wake Up (by Denise
LaNay)
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Vocals are intentionally buried and
textural. We don't ever want to mix this song again. While we're minimalists with our
recording setup, that doesn't mean it won't take 30 parts to make a song as good as it
needs to be. |
| Studio Recording (minimal
production) - Wonderful (by
Andy Ard)
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This was recorded over a couple days in our
studio. Andy played the acoustic guitar and sang, then we recorded everything else
on top of that. We wanted to keep the production minimal, so the bass line took a
while (since it had to melodically reflect every nuance of the song, and the song is way
more intricate than it seems on first listen). |
| On Site Recording - Country Song (Sometimes)
(by Tequila Mockingbird)
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Recorded at the band's
rehearsal space (offices in a La-Z-Boy warehouse). The drummer was in a separate,
windowless room and everyone was connected with headphones. This album used every
available recording track, requiring two Roland workstations to be linked. In theory
it's a straightforward hookup, but we don't recommend it unless your schedule allows
sleeping in (since you'll lie awake every night gripped with the fear you didn't bump each
vocal take to the next virtual track). |
| Live Recording - Yodelin' Rhythm & Blues (by
Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams)
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Recorded
live at the Skylark Lounge in Denver, CO. Since our studio was still under
construction, this was mixed and mastered in the tiny back room of a
trailer. |