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About Me

Cacophony Recorders is a recording studio on the banks of the Colorado River in East Austin, TX run by Darwin Smith and Erik Wofford. The studio is run in a very Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno inspired fashion with the unique feature of having no separate control room from the tracking area. Everyone is in one room where communication and ideas can flow very easily between the producer/engineer and the artists. The added benefit of having everyone cohesively making a record together in the same room outweighs separating everyone to different spaces. There are several isolation booths built into the building to put amplifiers in, or even spaces to put acoustic instruments in while tracking drums in the main room. The flexibility for recording a live band all together with isolation between instruments but no isolation between players is very well thought out and affective. Everyone that comes into Cacophony comments on how much easier it is to make a great record here than other studios. A big part of that is the relaxed and comfortable setting of hanging out in someone's awesome living room, but it just happens to be filled with high tech recording gear. Check out the equipment list above to see how well the studio is outfitted. The emphasis at Cacophony is to make the technical process of making a record as invisible to the artist as possible, yet opening up the world of possibilities that are only available in a unique creative environment. We do not subscribe to the notion of modern recording techniques where the emphasis is on fixing every little thing in a computer or making your project sound like everyone else. We run a creative environment where no idea is too crazy and anything is possible. We ARE Cacophony Recorders, after all.

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Member Since: 6/9/2005
Band Members: Erik Wofford - producer, engineer, mixer, mastering engineer, manager
Darwin Smith - producer, engineer, mixer, musician, arranger
Danny Reisch - producer, engineer, mixer, musician
Martin Crane - producer, engineer, musician, arranger
James Jones - engineer, assistant, musician

Influences: environment, atmosphere, attitude and creativity are some of the biggest influences in the way we work.Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno, Jon Brion, Dave Fridmann and Tchad Blake are some of the recordists we are inspired by.We are mostly influenced by you and what you bring to the table. We are not making records for us. We are making records for you.
Sounds Like: Some artists that have worked at Cacophony:
Aimee Bobruk
A Tiger Named Lovesick
The Always Already
AM Syndicate
The Asylum Street Spankers
The Authors
Basin Alders
Benko
Bill Callahan
Bill Meadows
Billy White
The Black
The Black Angels
Blue Sidd Honey
Blu Sanders
The Bourbon Legends
Brazos
Brian Beatie
Brothers And Sisters
The Calm Blue Sea
Candi And The Strangers
Canopy
The Carrots
The Century
Christina Martin
Craig Marshall
Crawling With Kings
Cynthia Clawson
Dave Doobinin
The Dazzling King Solomon Band
The Early Tapes
Experimental Aircraft
Explosions In The Sky
Flato Van Vleck
For Those Who Know
Friends Of Dean Martinez
Friends Of Lizzy
Ghost Of The Russian Empire
Golden Bear
The Gourds
The Great Nostalgic
Gulf Of Mexico
Haunting Oboe Music
Hello Lovers
Honor Farm
Ikillcars
Imbroglio String Quartet
In Situ Sound
Jason Blum
John Butcher
King Tears
Lars Goranson
The Laughing
The Lemurs
The Lennings
Lloyd Maines
Love County
Low Line Caller
Melissa Greener
Moxie Block
Murdocks
My Morning Jacket
The Nervous Exits
Niki Duncan
The Normans
The Octopus Project
Okkervil River
The Only's
Patrice Pike
The Pons
Power Squid
Rescue Mission
Russell Monk
The Sad Accordions
Seahorse
Seela
Shearwater
She, Sir
Snowden
Sparrowhouse
Steve Bernal
Sunset
Tacks The Boy Disaster
Tammany Hall Machine
The Texas Sapphires
Those Peabodys
Tia Carrera
Til We're Blue Or Destroy
Tosca String Quartet
The Unbearables
Victor Van Vugt
Voxtrot
Welldigger's Banquet
Weâ€™ll Go Machete
Western Keys
What Made Milwaukee Famous
White Denim
White Rhino
The Winter Sounds
The Witches of Mendocino
Youngmond Grand
Your Black Star
Zookeeper
Zykos
1986

Type of Label: None

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Equipment List for Cacophony Recorders

Equipment List for Cacophony Recordersfor questions call 512-771-9863Mixing Board :Sound Workshop Series 34C (24 channels designed by ex-api engineers)From Avast! Recording Company in Seattle where Bu...
Posted by Cacophony Recorders on Wed, 17 Aug 2005 03:10:00 PST