The Viewing Room

Really happy to have mastered a wonderful compilation of songs from the 70s covered by some great artists for WFMU DJ Michael Shelley.

2011 was a very busy year! The studio got a new computer powerful enough for the mixing work that is on the calendar for 2012, which will also help mastering projects get done faster. Here is a list of studio projects that came to be released over the past twelve months:

Dirty Water Dogs Uptown, Alive and Well ... Mastering
Sweet Lizard Illtet 2 Rare ... Mastering
Adam Bernstein The World Becomes Your Mirror ... Mastering
Bob Evans Live @ Maxwell's ... Engineer, Mixing, Mastering

The Song Swap continues to rock; here is one of a few noir-ish clips we made of it using a laptop chat cam for video and a Zoom H4 for audio. -s

Projects from last year were quite varied, fun, and included much sonic excellence! Projects from 2010 include:

Phillips & Driver Disco Dance Party 2000 ... Mastering
Mama Doni Shabbat Shaboom ... Mixing, Mastering
Joe Cassady & The West End Sound The Chymical Vegas Wedding ... Mastering
Lance Doss All I Am Left With ... Mastering
The Swales Stranger Things ... Mixing, Mastering
Boz Metzdorf Green And Blue ... Mastering
Chris Skel Sodden Psalms ... Mastering
Mojo Daddyo From Out of the Big Blue ... Mastering

A quick note on a few of the projects completed in 2009...thanks!

The Plunk Brothers The Plunk Brothers ... Engineer, Mixing, Mastering (feat. Boo Reiners and Bob Jones)
John Pinamonti End Of Smith ... Bass, Producer, Engineer, Mixing
Ioan Harea Alegría ... Mastering
Max Greene My Well-Being ... Engineer, Mastering (Rod Hohl, Producer)
Lloyd Cole Cleaning Out the Ashtrays ... Engineer
The Mudlarks A Tender Age ... Mastering (Paul Carbonara, Producer)
Monstrous Brothers Gethway ... Digital Editing

My lovely wife Rebecca Turner releases her new album next week. The record release party/gig is on April 30th at Banjo Jim's; that's on the corner of 9th Street and Avenue C, in the East Village. The festivities begin at 7:00 p.m.

http://rebeccaturner.net

( Available until April 30th 2011 for free download at Bandcamp... http://bandcamp.rebeccaturner.net/album/slowpokes )

Yep, it's August and the only thing going slowly is me updating this website...

Several albums are in the works, a nice run of different mastering projects coming through and quite a few new and old friends have been stopping by.

The Nu-Sonics have a new favorite club to play, Union Hall in Park Slope! (photo by Amy Niebel)
Super-hospitable folks and the sound is excellent!

Deena Shoshkes (of The Cucumbers) and my wife Rebecca Turner have been hosting a very cozy songwriters' circle every month since January. You can read more about it in the May 11th New York Times. Pretty cool!

The swap also has a MySpace page with mp3s of the latest round of songs.

photo by Sherri Zuckerman, mic from the collection of Brian Kelly

A nice chunk of new MG submissions in the first couple of weeks, some new friends, and a bit of press interviewing Chris Butler and yours truly.

http://blog.nj.com/jerseyblogs/2008/04/writing_the_worlds_longest_son.ht...

I warned you last fall The Major Glitch was gonna happen... and now it has finally launched in its ever-growing glory! Chris has blogged a bit about the project launch:

"in 1996, i wrote a 69 minute song with over 500 verses called "The Devil Glitch". engineered by the formidable Scott Anthony, the Guinness Book of World Records declared it to be the "World's Longest Pop Song".

John Pinamonti asked me to snap this pic mid-session 'cuz the maroon trim on Shorty matches the chair perfectly... the Jerry Jones 12 was sitting close by and got thrown in...

The studio has been getting a few requests for a piano lately, so we've been scouring the planet for just the right thing. What we've discovered is a wonderful Knabe console piano with a big, round tone. I managed a studio in Manahattan a few years ago where the Knabe baby grand was a favorite among the NYC jazz crowd for recording.

More Knabe folklore:
The Knabe piano was the official piano of the Metropolitan Opera house in New York for over 40 years.
Albert Einstein, who was a devoted music lover, owned a Knabe piano.

Yep... another analog tape machine for the arsenal, this one's a classic.

The MCI JH-110C 1/2" 2tk (30, 15 ips) I found has brand new heads! These are not 3rd party heads either, they are original MCI issue.

I really must warm up the digital cam and post some new pics soon...