Taryn and Joey came in the studio to sing a duet for a friend.  I ended up producing a backing track to accompany them that they were very pleased with.  It was a country song that I made less country for them.  They both sang great and were wonderful to hang out with.  The personalities and jokes were stellar all day long.  I certainly look forward to getting a chance to work with them both again in the near future.  Here is a little video taste of how the day went.

Beverly and Greg Needhem came to the studio first to do some last minute recording.  After that first session, I spent a lot of time with the family over the next month.  Beverly and Greg are very nice people and we were able to get a lot of work done in a short amount of time.  We did 2 full albums of material.  One album for each of them that was completed in time for Christmas.  I look forward to working with them both in the new year.

Here is a quick clip of Beverly in the vocal booth.

Draven Midnight of The Undead Hearts was in studio almost weekly in October and November.  We tracked tons of guitars and bass.  The drums were already tracked by the time the project came my way.  After we finished up the vocal sessions, we mixed all of the tracks.  Great times and videos to follow soon.

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See what happens behind the scenes of a recording studio that has little to do with the actual recording process.  This session took place in October.

Kristen is back to Ditch Road Records to work on a track for a producer that may be used by a very big name pop singer. Always a pleasure to work with Kristen on anything that she brings in.

Royce came to Ditch Road Records to work on her track “Want You to Go”. It was a very productive session. We got most of the music tracked as well as the vocals. We have no idea why, but near the end of the session while we were tracking vocals there was a huge fireworks display in the middle of town. We had to take a little break as the large booms were making it onto the track.

 

On the album project that was one of the most ambitious projects that the Travis, the studio, and myself have ever taken on… we are so close to the end I can smell it.  The only thing that stopped us around 4 am from recording the last guitar track was a broken capo.  We have maybe an hour or two of tracking and then we are off to do the final mixes.  It is pretty safe to say that the this album will be done in two more sessions.  Good thing too because Travis has written about 3 double albums already that are sitting there waiting!  Great vocal takes the other night and one of the most productive sessions on the entire project.

Here is a great video that Maurice Moore brought to the studio to capture the actor’s voice for the project.  This has been out for a little while now, but I just realized that is had been released fairly recently.  All the credits are listed below.

Anaik Films/Dream Tan Productions
Dir. Maurice Moore
Writers. Mohamed Mohsen/Maurice Moore
DP. Corwin Nunes
Editor. Alex Rios
Music. Benjamin Pedersen
Starring. Vince Adams

Cameron Mooney and Ali Hall came into the studio this weekend to track 3 new songs.  Two and a half got finished in that time.  Not bad for a 5 hour session!  Most of this video presented here is them tracking scratch and guide tracks.  I was too busy when we were cutting the actual recordings to shoot the video!  They are both great to work with and it is exciting to watch them work together.  It had been almost a year to the day last time they were in the studio.  This time I have a feeling that it will be a bit sooner when I see them again next time.

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The last time Kristen was in the studio was at the end of 2009!  What has she been up to in that time?  As it turns out, just about everything and she is still only 17!  She has preformed at a private event for Grammy Foundation, with Keith Urban at UCLA’s Starry Night Concert, El Rey Theatre, Roxy Theater, Canyon Club, NAMM 2009, Malibu Inn, and Disneyland’s California Adventure to name a few.  Next week she is heading off to Grammy Camp in New York and will play a showcase in Times Square.  Basically the normal life of most soon to be seniors in high school.

There is a great article about her in the Ventura County Star that came out yesterday.  Here is a link to the online article:

Ventura County Star

I shot a quick video of her in the studio today while tracking some acoustic guitar.  This young lady has some serious chops!