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Dragonfly Recording Studio

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About Me

Located in the hills of VA, just outside of Washington D.C., multi-platinum Dragonfly Studios has played host to a great list of superstars as well as an "A" list of regional and up and coming acts! Great gear, staff, and vibe have made Dragonfly THE tracking room in the mid-atlantic for producer, engineers and artists! Below is a select discography of projects that Dragonfly Studios participated in!
Dave Matthews Band (Live in Chicago) *certified platinum
Dave Matthews Band (Live at Folsom Field) *certified platinum
Jason Mraz (Waiting for my Rocket) *certified platinum
O.A.R. (Anytime Now)*certified gold
Cinder Road (Superhuman)
Sinch (Clearing The Channel)
SR-71 (Here We Go Again)
SR-71 (Axl Rose EP)
Jason Mraz (Halfway Home "unreleased")
33 West (So Far Off To A Bad Start)
33 West (Grey and Burgundy)
Andy Zipf (Are We Going Down)
Bicycle Thieves (Second Place Confession)
Brindley Brothers (Filled with Fire)
City Riots (Signs)
Down to This (Funeral)
Evenout (Drown Inside)
Evenout (Red EP)
Everyone But Pete (Carry On)
Everyone But Pete (EBP)
Field Of Grey (Warning)
Fighting Gravity (Blue Sky and Black)
Getaway Car (All Your Little Pieces)
Jonasay (Spare Dimes)
Jubeus (Two Tone Circles)
Juniper Lane (Sirens)
Lionize (Mummies)
Madrone (Cause and Compromise)
Niki Barr (Lush)
Niki Barr (Go)
Numa
No Second Troy
Plunge (Hometown Hero)
Plunge (Limited Edition EP)
Rude Buddha (Fighter)
Rory Lowe Band (So Far So Near)
Saturn Down (Surviving the Crash)
Sickshot ({1})
Stepanian (For Lack of Better Words)
The Redfelts
The Speaks (High)
Torn (Reincarnate)
Waking State (Awake Asleep)
Welbilt (Due To The Current State of Things)
Dragonfly Clients (Major Label)------------------------------------
Dave Matthews Band (RCA Records)
Jason Mraz (Elektra Records)
Bruce Hornsby (RCA Records)
Citizen Cope (Arista Records)
Johnathan Rice (Warner Brothers)
Cinder Road (EMI/Union)
Mike Ruocco/Plunge (Columbia)
SR-71 (Nippon)
Chris Kirkpatrick (of N'Sync)
Ray Brady (Ashlee Simpson)
Corey Harris (Rounder)
Sinch (Rock Ridge)
O.A.R. (Everfine/Lava)
Plunge (Columbia Records)
The Speaks (Warner Brothers Asia)
Artists such as Welbilt, The Speaks, Evenout, Rude Buddha, Swythe, Niki Barr (MD), Getaway Car, Saturn Down, BOB, Everyone But Pete, Dan Haas (MD), 33 West, Stonegato (MD), Given (KY), The Canvas, Nick Garrett (MD), Brindley Brothers, Kate Starr, Stillwell, System Failure (PA), Sinch (PA), Field Of Grey (MO), Superbeing (Vancouver), Robby Red (FL), 3 Star Karma, Halfway Broken (MD), Falltown (MD), Superbeing (Vancouver), Madrone, Alona and tons more have graced the studio!
Producers/engineers that have brought projects to Dragonfly:
Scott Spelbring (Welbilt, Superbeing)
Marti Frederiksen (Aerosmith)
Adam Moseley (The Cure)
John Alagia (Jason Mraz, John Mayer)
Jeff Juliano (Lifehouse, Dave Matthews Band)
Drew Mazurek (Linkin Park, Nothingface)
Jim Ebert (Butch Walker, Meredith Brooks)
Doug Derryberry (Bruce Hornsby)
Steve Haigler (Fuel, Pixies)
Mike Watts (Hopesfall)
Jared Bartlett (Last Train Home)
Ted Comerford (Virginia Coalition, Ebo)
Mitch Allen (SR-71, Cowboy Mouth)
Harry Evans
Paul Barber (My Favorite Highway)
Brent Baxter Barrett (India Arie)
Steve Barber (The Miles)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/9/2005
Band Website: dragonflyeast.com
Band Members: Scott Spelbring
Sounds Like: Digidesign Protools HD3
Apogee Big Ben
Digidesign Procontrol 32 Channels
Genelec 1031A
Yamaha NS-10M
Auratones
37" LCD Screen

Preamps/EQ's
Neve 1066 (x4), Neve 1073 (x2), Wunder Audio PEQ1 (Neve 1073) (x2), API 512c (x8), API 550B EQ (x2), Manley Massive Passive, Daking 52270 (x4), Universal Audio 2610 (x4), Vintech x81, Avalon U5

Compressors
Universal Audio 1176 (x2), Empirical Labs Distressor w/mods (x2), Alan Smart C2, Tube Tech LCA 2B, DBX 160VU (x2), DBX 160A (x2), Urei LA-4 (x2), CBS Volumax III (STEREO), Purple Audio MC76 (x2)

Outboard + Other
Pultec HLF-3c, Eventide DSP 7000, TC D-Two Delay, Line 6 Mod Pro, Line 6 Filter Pro, Little Labs PCP Distro, Apogee PSX-100, Toneworks DTR-1, Sans Amp Rack, Roland SDE-330, Oxygen 8, Furman HR-16 Monitor System, Echo Plate II Plate Reverb, HHB CD Burner, Tascam DA-45 Dat

Guitars + Other
Budda Superdrive II 45, Vox AC-30, Fender Twin Reverb II, Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier, Marshall TSL-100, Budda 2X12 (Open Back), vintage Marshall 4X12, Mesa 4X12, 1964 Gibson Falcon, Gibson Les Paul Standard, Gibson Les Paul Standard Baritone, Noisy Cricket Amp, Taylor 314 Acoustic, Big Muff, Menatone King of the Britains, Line 6 Filter Modeler, Crybaby Wah, Lil Smoky, Boss Super Chorus, Ibanez Super Metal, Electric Mistress, Ibanez Bass, Roland RE-201 Space Echo, Option 5 Destination Rotation, Banshee Talkbox, Electro Harmonix Black Finger, St James P-90 Phase, Hammond M-3 Organ

Microphones
Neumann M-149, Neumann KM-184 (matched pair), Schoeps CMC6 MK4 capsules (matched pair), Sennheiser 421 (5), AKG 414 (2), Blue Kiwi, Blue Mouse, Shure SM7, Shure SM-57 (5), Royer 121 (2), RE-20, D112, Yamaha Kick Sub, assorted others

Plug-Ins
Waves Platinum, Waves SSL, Melodyne, Autotune 4, Access Virus, Echo Boy Soundtoys, Chandler EMI TG12413, Eventide MP5 + H949, Fairchild 660/670, Filterbank Massive Pack 3, Focusrite D2/D3, Beat Detective, Avox Choir, Avox Punch, Bomb Factory, Bruno/Reso, Hybrid, Impact, Joemeek SC2 + VC5, Line 6 Echo Farm and Amp Farm, Maxim, McDSP MC2000 MP, MDW HiRes EQ v1 + v2, all Moogerfoogers, Sony Oxford R3, Princeton Plate Verb, pulteq EQH-2 + EQP-1A + MEQ-5, Purple Audio MC77, Reverb One, Revibe, Sans Amp, Slightly Rude, Smack, Soundblender, Soundreplacer, Soundtoys MP5, Speed, SST-282, Synchronic, TC Master X, Telray Delay, TL Space, URS MPack 5 Strip, Voce Spin/Chorus/Vibrato, Waves IRx, Waves Vocal Bundle
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

2006 Thank You's + Wrap Up!

2006 isn't even over and I already miss it! This has been an amazing year for Dragonfly Studios and I wanted to thank everyone who has been a part of the family! Xmas stockings with mul...
Posted by Dragonfly Recording Studio on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:33:00 PST

Studio Update: 7/06

July 2006 News Happy 4th of July and all that jazz! Summer is officially here as its hot and green on top of the mountain! First, we've got to drop props out to some of the Dragonfly Studios alumni. -...
Posted by Dragonfly Recording Studio on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:57:00 PST