PRODUCTION, MUSIC DEVELOPMENT, ENGINEERING
AND MUSICAL DIRECTING
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KNOWING THAT RECORDINGS ARE THE LIFE AND BREATH OF AN ARTISTS' MUSIC, THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF ACHIEVED OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES FROM PASSED MUSICIANS:
- Having a demo and press kit to shop to music labels
- Develop a creative and original sound
- Work with a producer with fresh ideas
- Help with songwriting
- Set of recorded well-written songs
- Achieving their dream of making a great record
- Rediscovering the fun and love in the recording process
- Find new meaning in the their music
- Putting their heart and soul to tape
HERE ARE SOME IDEAS ADDRESSED IN PASSED PRODUCTIONS:
- Learn new improvising techniques
- Transmitting energy to an audience
- Spirituality in performing
- Discovering another dimension in music
- Building a relationship with sound
- Explore the universality of soundmaking and listening
- Being able to conduct a music score
- Perform with any kind of band, artist or songwriter
- Effortless performing
- Forging connections between thinking and feeling
- Learn to listen deeper
- Song structure and form
- Introduction to the tonal center
- Notation, rhythm and meter
- Intervals of all the notes and their inversions
- Major and minor scales and the circle of fifths
- Movement and rest in Melody
- Triad arrangements and how to build a chord
- Harmonizing a melody
- History of music theory
- Songwriting techniques
- Composition, soundscapes, sound effects, and sound design
- Audio for commercials, jingles, TV broadcasts, feature and short films, videos, games, internet and websites
- Learing how to use a professional multi-track digital and analog recording studio
- Voiceovers, sweetening and music scoring
- Arrangements for other bands, artists and songwriters
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Davey James' studio offers a refreshing studio environment with state-of-the-art equipment with a comfortable lounge atmosphere.
He is fully equipped with a large cinema screen, Pro Tools HD3 7.3.1 (Mac OSX) recording system connected to over a terabyte of secure storage with automatic nightly backup housed in a fire proof space. His spacious lounge offers a unique environment for musical creativity to flourish with all the amenities of a hotel, including high-speed access to the Internet, Xbox and Vespa 200GT.
Davey James' studio is also fully equipped to accommodate any recording project and provides a staff committed to excellent service and album security.
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STUDIO
- Main Room 10’ x 24’ (100 year old brick and stone walls with heated floors)
- Amp Isolating Booth room 12’ x 12’ (old concrete furnace room)
- Echo Chamber 8’ x 10’ (old brick and tile bathroom)
- Control Room 14’ x 12’(heated floors) - w/deck/lounge area with 40 inch TV (Playstation and Xbox) and Dartboard * 2 individual stereo headphone mixes from Toft Console
CONSOLES AND RECORDERS
- Toft 16 Channel ATB Console V2.1
- 1970’s Peavy Mixing Consoles (Live)
- Digidesign PROTOOLS HD3 (7.3.1), LE 001 (Transfer Station) and Mbox
- Macintiosh (3) G5, Macbook Pro, G4
- Otari MTR-10 1/4 inch 2-track
- Sony R500 DAT recorder
- Tascam Mark III Cassette recorder
PRE AMPS AND EQ
- 2 Vintech X73 Microphone Preamplifiers
- 1 Vintech X73I Microphone Preamplifier
- 2 Neve 33122 Microphone Preamplifiers
- Avalon VT-737SP Pure Class A Preamplifier w/Compressor
- Avalon AD2022 Dual Mono Pure Class A Preamplifiers
- GT SuPre Two Channel Preamplifier
- Trayor 1970’s PA Head (4 Channels)
PLUGS-INS, REVERBS, DELAYS AND EEFFECTS
- Auto Tune 5 Antares TDM
- Celemony Melodyne Studio RTAS
- Waves Diamond Bundle TDM
- Reverb Altiverb 6 XL TDM
- Maestro EchoPlex
- Roland Space Echo 501
- Sans-Amp
- Smokey and Supro cigarette box (2)
- MXR Overdrive
- MXR Phase 90
- MXR Phase 45
- Electro-harmonics - Big Muff
- Electro-harmonics - Small stone phaser
- Electro-harmonics - Small clone chorus
- Electro-harmonics – Holy Grail
- Electro-harmonics - Cathedral Deluxe Stereo Reverb
- Sovtek - Big Muff
- Prescription Electronics - Yardbox
- Z-Vex - Seek wah
- Z-Vex - Fuzz Factory
- Z-Vex - Wooly Mammoth
- JT Electronics - Wakko Fuzz
- JT Electronics - Tube Overdrive
- JT Electronics - Stereo tube tremolo
- Roger Mayer - Octavia
- Diaz Texas Tremodillo
- Mutron 3
- Mutron Wah
- Cry Baby Wah
- Ibanez Tube screamer
- Ibanez Compresser
- Morley Chorus flanger
- Moog analog delay
- E-Bow
MICROPHONES
- AKG C12 Tube Condenser Microphone
- AKG 2 414 Cardiod Condenser "Matched pair" Microphones
- AKG D112 (2) Dynamic Microphone
- Neumann U87 Condenser Microphone
- Neumann 103 Condenser Microphone
- Sennheiser 421 (2) Condenser Microphone
- GT60 Studio Tube Condenser Microphone
- GT50 Studio FET Condenser Microphone
- Rode K2 Tube Condenser Microphone
- Rode NT5 Cardiod Condenser "Matched pair" Microphones (2)
- Beyer M201 Dynamic Microphone
- Apex 210 Ribbon Microphone (2)
- Shure Beta 52 Cardioid Microphone
- Shure Beta 58A Dynamic Microphones (2)
- Shure 55SH Series II Broadcasting Microphone
- Shure SM57 Unidirectional Dynamic Microphones (3)
- Shure SM7B Dynamic Microphone
- Shure green bullet Dynamic Microphone
- Audix drum pack
COMPRESSOR AND LIMITERS
- Teletronix LA-2A Leveling Amplifier/Compressor
- Universal Audio 2-610
- 2 UA 1176N Limiting Amplifier
- DBX 150 (2)
MONITORS
- Genelec 1030A
- Yamaha NS10
- JBL L830 Cherry Wood
- M-Audio BX8a and BX5a
- Sony boombox w/line-in
- Telefunken 1960’s radio w’line-in
- Bryston 4B-ST (Amp)
STUDIO HEADPHONES
- Sennheiser HD 280 (2)
- Sony MDR 7506 (2)
- AKG K 44 (4)
- Vic Firth (1)
- 4 individual stereo headphone mixes from Pro tools
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Mastering:
Stephen Marsh at Threshold Sound and Vision (Keb'Mo, Ginuwine and Incubus)
Ryan Foster at Freq. Mastering Portland, Oregon
Engineers:
Chris Tristram at Backroom Studios (Marjorie Fair, Nine Black Alps)
Dana Neilson at Little People Production (System of a Down, Red Hot Chilli Peppers)
Mixers and Editors:
Josh Jennings at Willie Cash Studios (IllKidd, Rene Mercury)
Dana Neilson at Little People Production (System of a Down, Red Hot Chilli Peppers)
Mat Thorne at Pez Dispenser/Mattel Studios (The State of Texas vs Dave)
Chris Tristram at Backroom Studios (Marjorie Fair, Nine Black Alps)
Bill Barnett at Gung Ho Studios (Cherry Poppin Daddys)
Gear:
Paul Peterson at Bill Wall Leather
Shane Hammond at Set Masters
SIR Studio and Instrument Rentals
Studios:
6 Nassau
NRG Recording Studios
Sunset Sound Recording Studios,
Conway Recording Studios
A & M Recording Studios
New Direction Recording Studios
Gung Ho Studios
Love Juice Labs
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