Quotes, photos, videos and music from a studio owner, recording engineer and chicken wing lover. Everything is better with extra sauce on the side.
Extra Sauce On Side
All photos by Keegan J Quart
Recording Session at The Sound Distillery, Kitchener, ON.
Here’s some photos that were taken during one of Richards sessions a couple months back. His album is nearing completion for a September release date!
Here is a photo from the first recording session I was ever a part of on the technical side of things. Mark Ramos-Nishita was called in to play keys. Adam Yauch gave him his name and
Immortalized him on the beastie boys’ check your head with the line “keyboard money mark ya know he ain’t having it just give him some wood and he’ll build you a cabinet”. Spent many hours listening to that and A Tribe Called Quest with Aaron Wry in grade 11 English media class.
Last night was session 2/3 of a great folk album Dave and I are recording. Was challenging in that it was almost exclusively acoustic instruments, no headphones, and no overdubs.
It was sounding great without getting too deep into mixing. I managed to get a great upright bass sound using a large diaphragm Neumann TLM102 on the low near the F holes, and an NT5 at the frets through two Neve 1073 clones. The rest of the band was mic’d with classic Neumann mics, a Royer ribbon and a few dynamics for good measure all through Neve, API, and Avalon mic pres. As per usual our golden unit distressor was in full effect.
I wanted to achieve a T Bone Burnett feel in that it needed to sound modern, but authentic to the genre. Was a great night with the session going into the late hours of the day but everyone had a blast in creating a cool vibe, and relaxed session. Im already excited to see how the final group of songs will turn out!
I never thought that I’d get behind a guitar strap more than I have. I never really cared about the leather ends, material etc. but this past year when buying vintage guitars (and a lot of them) I started paying close attention to how a strap cradles a guitar, secures it in place and how comfortable they are.
Soldier straps out of Chicago were a company I discovered on my own haphazardly and have fell in love with their classic patterns, and eye for security/protection of my guitars.
Check these guys and gals out!
