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Chris Andrews - Mix Engineer - Producer

Mixing is done with Smoke and Mirrors..... Lots of Smoke and broken mirrors....

About Me


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CHRIS ANDREWS - MIX ENGINEER FOR HIRE - MUSIC JOBS
STUDIO OWNERS - PICK THESE UP! THEY ARE AMAZING:
TBR STUDIO - CURRENT NEWS
THE DENVER MIX
The ANNEX CD is complete and waiting to be sent off for mastering. Turned out great and cannot wait to see what Nathan James in New York does to it with his magic touch. The band has been patiently waiting for this release and I think that the wait was well worth it. Should be out son, o stay tuned.
Currrently I am mixing a tune for a competition with Charles Dye and crew from the WOMB mixing forum. There are 78 engineers mixing a tune from a band called Aces High: out of New Zealand. Though it is a competition it is really to help aid new engineers with techniques and ways to better tailor and create a mix. The processes and choices made are all part of the thing. The song is up as the first one on my player. So far I am happy with it and make tweek a few parts here and there in the next few days.
Need something mixed, get in touch. Great rates, great gear and plenty of time to make it perfect for my clients.
CURRENTLY MIXING
ANNEX
Check out ANNEX's video for "Brought It On Yourself" below:
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TBR STUDIO IS NO MORE, but the MIXING is better than ever..
YEs, that's right, the "Studio" is no more as I recently moved from D.C. to Denver. I am now freelance mixing and planning to work with a few local studios to track and then mix back in my home studio that I have setup in the city. Tracking is kinda pointless out of the new place, but I have setup a pretty sweet mix room. If you have tracks that need mixed, send me a message and I will send you a format for mixing that I prefer and rates. All is mixed on a Pro Tools setup using API and other various analog gear for summing. Soon I will have a HD 3/API DSM setup for mixing. Right now things work and all that you hear on this page was mixed by myself in my old studio. New stuff will be here soon enough.
Chris Andrews, Owner/Engineer of TBR Studio has been in and out of the music scene since age 15 (1990) when he started playing clubs in Cleveland, Ohio with a band called "The Others." Playing the scene with the likes of "Coinmonster," "The Unknown," and other local bands of the time, he was exposed to the music and it stuck. Moving on from "The Others," Chris joined up with a whacked out funk, meets god knows what band called "A Lesser Squid." With the backing vocals of Chris Neil, Drummer Jepsen Staral, and Bassist Scott Walker, "A Lesser Squid" took to the Cleveland music scene with a frenzy. Playing shows almost weekly, the then High School band (seniors at the time) had a huge following across the Cleveland music community. " A Lesser Squid" was able to open for such acts as Tool, The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones, Murphy's Law, Shootyz Groove, Wax, and Washington D.C.'s finest, Lucy Brown. In late 1993 the band decided to go their separate ways, but still try to keep in contact.
TBR STUDIO CALENDAR
SOME CLIENTS THAT WE HAVE WORKED WITH:
INDIE LABELS
ALEX SKOLNICK TRIO - MAGNATUDE RECORDS
POLYNATION - RUFFIAN RECORDS
HALF BROTHER SID - KIM RECORDS
ANNEX - FASTLANE RECORDS
THE MEDDLING KIDS - FASTLANE RECORDS
CLIENTS
TOMMY ROTHMAN
ABE QUIGLEY
KNUCKLEPUCK
BRING ON THE SUN
BABA G' NUSH
MODE SEVEN
ETHAN JANKE
MURDERWALK
STATESIDE
THE GREENLINE
JOEL HERRINGTON
IN THIS LIFE
ORION
NO HARM DONE
SEMP
HOOKSTAR
THE ANDY FINN SHOW
THEO ANDROUS
HIATUS
DAVE KAUFFMAN
RAMBLING SHADOWS
CROSSTOWN RIVALRY
CASEY TRICARICO
JON MOXON
LAND OF MALLS
ROBY MATTHEW
JEN MITCHIE
SMASH ADAMS
JENNIFER ON SUNDAY
BOEING CORPORATION
PEPCO
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY ARTS DEPARTMENT

TBR STUDIO'S MYSPACE BAND OF THE WEEK
ARMY OF ANYONE

My Interests

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TBR STUDIO GEAR LIST
MIXING & MONITORING:

DIGIDESIGN HD3 ACCEL
ISOCHRONE OCX ATOMIC CLOCK
1 x APOGEE D/A-16X
2 x APOGEE ROSETTA 800
1 x DIGIDESIGN 192
API 7800 Master Section
2 x API 8200 LINE MIXERS
BLUE SKY
MACKIE

SOFTWARE:

Digidesign ProTools HD 7.3
ACID PRO 5.0
REASON 3.0

TONS OF PLUGS
Waves, URS, SSL,
Native Instruments
Antares
Eventide
Massey
Nomad
Bombfactory
Digirack
FXpansion
Much, much, more

MASTERING SOFTWARE:

STEINBERG WAVELAB 5.0
MICROPHONES:

2 x NEUMANN TLM-103
2 x RODE NTK (TUBE MIC)
1 x SHURE SM-7B
1 x GT 55 Fet
1 x APEX 460
2 x APEX 435
7 x SHURE SM-57
4 x Oktava MK-012
2 x Oktava MK-319
1 x Audix D6
1 x AKG D112
2 x SENNHEISER E 609 SILVER
4 x SENNHEISER MD 421- II

PREAMPS:

API 3124 + MB
2 x Vintech AUDIO X73i (EQ's)
2 x Trident MTA 80B (EQ's)

OUTBOARD EFFECTS:

Lexicon PCM-90
Ensoniq DP/4
Eventide H3000 D/SE
Digitech TSR-24S
Digitech DHP-55
Electrix Filter Factory
M-AUDIO 8x8 USB Midisport
M-Audio Oxygen 8
M-Audio 61 es

OUTBOARD COMPRESSORS:

API 2500 Buss Compressor
Tube Tech (soon)
2 x Universal Audio 1176
2 x Empirical Labs EL-8X
1 x DBX 160A
1 x DBX 160XT

GUITAR AMPLIFICATION AND EFFECTS:

1985 Marshall JCM 800
MesaBoogie Studio Preamp
MesaBoogie Simul-Class 2:90
ADA MP-1
ADA MicroCab II
Bogner Uberschall 4 x 12
MesaBoogie Vintage 2 x 12
Rocktron HUSH Super C
TECH 21 SansAmp RBI
1965 Fender Bassman Blackface
Fender Prosonic
Maxon OD 808
Keeley Compressor
Keeley BOSS SD-1
Dunlop Crybaby Wah
Radial "Big Shot ABY" switcher

GUITARS:

Ibanez 540S Limited
Ibanez RG Series
Hamer 4 String Velocity 2 Bass
Seagull 6 string acoustic guitar

Heroes:



My Blog

ANNEX VIDEO - NOW UP

All,So the band I am mixing right now from Wisconsin "ANNEX" has a video up on You Tube and soon to be elsewhere.    There is a direct link to it below on my page now.  Check it out.&nb...
Posted by Chris Andrews - Mix Engineer - Producer on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:31:00 PST

TBR STUDIO FINALLY GOES TO HD

That's right, I finally made the jump to a HD 3 ACCEL system which will give me plenty of horsepower to create some sick mixes for all my clients.  I am pretty fired up as this system will be a h...
Posted by Chris Andrews - Mix Engineer - Producer on Wed, 09 May 2007 09:19:00 PST

ANNEX - NEW MIX UP

All,So I have been working some with Fastlane Records out in Oklahoma.  They are sending me material to the mix room and I am doing what I can to "enhance" the material.  They recently sent ...
Posted by Chris Andrews - Mix Engineer - Producer on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:37:00 PST

READ THE INTERVIEWS

Read for yourself.  Support "Studio" developement and help build better spaces for your recordings.  It is an honor to be a next to these wizards of today's music creation.READY AC...
Posted by Chris Andrews - Mix Engineer - Producer on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:42:00 PST

TOM ROTHMAN'S - DIRTY DEED'S - LYRICS

You can now see what I mean about the song.  This song was written about my past 2 years.  I think that you can figure out what it is all about. I'm wide awake no longer dreamin of your face...
Posted by Chris Andrews - Mix Engineer - Producer on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:31:00 PST