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Pre production, producing, tracking, editing, vocal tuning, reamping, mixing, mastering, and lodging available by request.
We have on and off-street parking with easy load-in through the garage via driveway. The live room, vocal booth, band lounge, and restroom are all located in the basement. A fridge, PlayStation, Netflix, and Amazon Prime are all provided for your convenience. A full kitchen, additional restroom, and laundry services are also available. Feel free to invite a few friends, your significant others, or even family members. Gas, grocery, and food services are only five minutes away.
Please remember when scheduling: we won't need every member to be at the studio every day of the tracking process.
Learn to play to a metronome. All performances must be tracked to a click. Record your live performances or band practices ahead of time to document song structure, tempos, and time signatures. Send those demos to the studio at least a week before your session.
Please take your guitars and basses to a professional for a proper setup including new strings, intonation, neck relief, pickup height, string height, and new batteries. Bring enough strings to change out all strings once per song to once per day. We have a selection of guitars and basses for use if needed. See the "Backline" page for details. Only bring your guitars and pedals to the studio, we won't need any amps or cabs until we get to the reamping steps later in the production.
Get plenty of vocal rest before your studio session. Please do not attempt to change your eating, drinking, or smoking habits before coming to your session. Warm up 30 minutes before your session. Let your vocals rest between tracking sessions. Practice, practice, practice.
All song structures, tempos, and time signatures should be finalized before arriving at the studio. Replace as many batter and resonance heads as you can the night before. Bring another member of the band to help with load in, set up, and support as you track. Repair or replace all noisy hardware and broken cymbals. Practice, practice, practice!
We have a wonderful house kit, a selection of choice snare drums, two sets of double pedals, and a variety of cymbals available for use.
Turn off all effects and plugins on each track and the master bus. Export each track as a single Mono WAV file. Name each track starting with the instrument such as Drum Overhead, Guitar Rhythm, Vocal Lead... Export all tracks for each song starting at the beginning of the song and ending once the song is complete. Better yet, if you can, track all songs in a single session. This will let you export a single track for each instrument rather than multiple tracks for each instrument. Upload all tracks into a fresh project and inspect before sending. Do not send tracks you haven't reviewed.
When mixing is complete, I will send you one song of your choice for review. Use this track to take notes, compare notes as a band, and assemble me one single list of revisions you'd like made split into two sections. First section is for revisions to make to the entire mix and the second is for specific revisions including timecode. When your first song is complete, I will start on the remaining tracks. Once tracks are submitted, you'll have 30 days to request as many revisions as you'd like. When the entire project is final I will export and send you one high-quality lossless WAV file of each song.
If you'll be submitting mixes for mastering, please export your songs as single stereo WAV files. The maximum peak volume of each song must not exceed -6db. Remember to remove any limiters from your master bus. Send a reference track for each song with your mastering chain engaged. You will receive a high quality lossless 16bit WAV file of each song.


