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The Lauten Sessions

2008-07-01T17:21:00.000-07:00

The new Lauten sessions have been posted in the sessions section of their website. Brian, the Founder of Lauten Audio and I spent a couple of days at Kronos studio recording with Gary Novack on drums, and Scott Kinsey tickling the ivories. We recorded multiple set-ups of both instruments utilizing the soon to be released full line of Lauten Audio microphones. It was such a tremendous experience for us to be able to try different configurations of these mics along with the great musicianship of these fine gentleman. Go have yourself a listen, its layed out real nice and easy to listen to.

The full line of Lauten mics should be in stores by the end of the summer, with the Horizon in stores now.

On a side note, we had a loaner piece of gear from Summit Audio. The TPA-200b, its their two channel mic pre that contains a tube gain stage along side a solid state gain stage. The more I use this box the more I need one or two. We used it for the overheads on the drums, which was great. Then with the piano sessions we did two passes, one pass with the summit, the other pass with API 512's. We did this with all of the mics.

As days past I continued using the Summit mic pre's, They also have line inputs, which is really sweet in a mix on electric guitars. Add that piece to the gotta have list.

New Monkey

2008-07-01T16:17:00.000-07:00

New Monkey is a studio that I work out of 95% of the time. It's a comfortable studio that has an interesting history that most associate with the late great Elliott Smith.

I'll leave it to you to visit their website, which is in my links section, to dig up any of the specifics about the technical aspects.

New Monkey is were a lot of bands like to come and use the tape machine, cutting there records fast and live. Sometimes it gets a little dirty that way, but they all usually leave with broad smiles across their faces.

Welcome

2008-07-01T16:08:00.000-07:00

Well, Here's a little bit to get started. This blog will probably morf a bit over time to find its own natural course and direction as well as take on a life of it's own. The main focus will obviously be the production, engineering and composition of a music project that I am in some way involved with.