It’s been a crazy year for me, full of endings and new beginnings. In January, Traded to Racine played our final show in front of all our friends alongside Joan of Arc. The first few months of the year were some of the busiest and most fulfilling I had at my studio in Florida, Contrast [...]

The new mix room is starting to take shape. I’m finally getting the patchbay wired up and starting on the acoustics of the space. I ran some tests to measure the acoustic response of the room and it measures more favorably without treatment than my old room did with treatment. It still needs some work, [...]

I recently assisted Patrick Ferguson on a session for the band Ponderosa at Studio 1093 here in Athens. I took a few pictures from the session and thought I would post them here so you can see the studio and some of the options recording there provides. The first picture shows a concert bass drum [...]

In the digital audio medium, few things are as aurally unpleasant as hard clipping. Unfortunately, I sometimes receive files to mix that have been clipped because of outdated information, hearsay, and a general misunderstanding of digital audio. Digital clipping occurs when a signal surpasses the headroom of the system, resulting in distortion as the waveform [...]

A lot has happened in the few months since I posted last. I now live in Athens, GA and have been spending some time becoming familiar with the area, music, and studios around me. Coming from the endless city of South Florida, the environment is a welcome change. The city is rich in history and [...]

I started recording out of curiosity and necessity while playing in a punk rock band in South Florida. The community of bands in the area at the time afforded me the opportunity to grow into a professional engineer and open my own studio. I feel truly lucky to have been part of something that showed [...]

I started tracking a record for reggae band Bushwood last week. The band wanted a record that would accurately represent their sound and emotion so we decided to track live. To maintain separation while still allowing all members to play together, the drums were tracked in the main room, bass was recorded direct, and the [...]

We’re almost done tracking the Climb the Bell Tower EP and I finally have some time to talk about the recording process. We’re using a lot of vintage instruments and equipment coupled with a more modern approach to tracking and overall aesthetic. Everyone in the band is into a lot of classic rock, blues, and [...]

For one of the songs on Climb the Bell Tower’s EP, we wanted a really huge sound for a bass drum, hand claps, and other percussion. Rather than use an artificial reverb processor, we decided to go old-school and find a space that had the sound we were looking for. As it happens, there’s a [...]

Climb the Bell Tower has started tracking for an EP, due to be released over the summer. Here is a short video showing the set up for the drum tracking: