Member Since: 11/6/2006
Band Website: tunesmithstudio.com
Band Members: Phil Pepin owner, engineer & producer. And a number of very talented session musicians & vocalist who are apart of the Tunesmith Talent Network.
Influences: My main influence as a engineer & producer is Alan Parsons. I constantly strive to reach his level of excellence.
Sounds Like: All the studio your band will need. Any thing from a simple demo to a fully mastered CD for release. What does it take to record an artistically satisfying professional recording?
1. Need a good room. Lot of studios are in office buildings. Not the ideal situation, low ceilings. and square parallel walls. In order to keep peace with the neighbors the studio in a office building has heavy sound treatment creating essentially a dead room. Look at all the great studios like Abby Road for example, they are sound treated but not dead.
Tunesmith Studio has none of those problems. We're not in a office building the main studio is 30ft long by 28 ft wide. High vaulted ceiling oak wood floors. The room is properly sound treated but not dead! Therefore vocals, and acoustic guitars, drum kits all sound very natural. The main studio is equipped with a custom designed isolation booth when that is needed.
2. Good microphones. We have that covered and what microphones we don't have on hand we can emulate with an expensive and very powerful microphone modeling software by Antares. Of course a mixer with clean preamps with lots of headroom, is a must.
3. A engineer that knows his stuff!! This is every bit as important if not more so. To be blunt I've heard some really crappy recordings come out of some very expensive studios. I have a saying that fits with what is going on with modern recording engineers. "It's not the gear it's the ears" When you record at Tunesmith Studio you get me as the engineer. I've won awards from industry professionals acknowledging my audio skills. I'm also a songwriter, producer & musician, all of which means I know where you are coming from.
Tunesmith Studio is a professional studio with a comfortable relaxed atmosphere. We are not going win a architecture design award. I didn't spend $100,000 on a fancy studio design that looks great but has little to do with sound quality. We're not a dump either I often hear new clients say "what a cool looking studio". To put it simply we have what is needed to make a great recording.
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Record Label: Basil Records Offcial Studio
Type of Label: Indie