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Tom

Hired Gun!

About Me

Hey, about me, when, then, now or tommorrow! I'm pretty dynamic, changing everyday depending on what's going on! I am a recording studio engineer/producer and proffesional musician and have been in the business of making music for quite a while.
About me as the Recording Engineer & Producer
Fortunately I have had the pleasure of working with some very talented artists. I am equally comfortable on both sides of the glass Whether I am in the control room or in the boothe recording. Being in the producers seat I take the role of the overseer of the creative process of making a record as well as the financial aspect of budgeting a record. It would be best to think of me as sort of a consultant in the recording process. I'm a second set of ears, someone that can discuss a song with you and make suggestions. Ultimately its always the artist that decides what goes on thier album I am there as a guide to help you realize your vision. As the engineer I push the technology that is available as far as it can go! I use tried and true methods to capture/record sound as well as some of my personally developed methods too. One of the things I find that best benefits artists is pre production. Taking the time to hear the song before its recorded like going to a rehersal and throwing a mic up and getting a snapshot of the song in its raw form. Or taking acoustics and jamming it to hear it stripped down. This gives us the starting point where we can begin to see what form sonically your music is going to take as well as getting comfortable working together. When it comes to mixing I am comfortable working with artists side by side on a mix or if they want me to rough the mix in and then come in to make the final tweaks to the mix thats works too. I have worked with artists that have recorded material that just want to remix there work with me and I have also worked and been in it from beginning to the red book master. If you are interested in working with me call the studio and book a tour 602-896-4379 or drop me an email [email protected]
About me as the Professional Musician
I am a professional drummer/percussionist and have been doing studio session work for over 8 years. I am comfortable in and versed in many styles of music. Getting great sounding and great feeling drums is essential in making a good recording! Its the hardest instrument to record right, so many pieces so many options. Some of the people I have worked with have sequenced drums on thier demo/album that just need to be replaced by the real deal. Other artists have no recordings and need someone to fly by the seat of thier pants and jam a song into form and record it. Either way I am comfortable at getting the right sounding drum tracks with the right feel. I have been around the block enough to know what to do but hungry enough that I don’t want to kill anyone’s budget so give me a call at the studio 602-896-4379 or email me [email protected] to setup a meet n greet and we'll go from there.
TallCat Productions
Check out my band Beyond The Now
Also give a listen to these guys Internal Defect and add em as your friend. Click on the pic!
Click on the banner and give a listen to Ekser as well they got signed after the release of thier 3 song ep they recorded at TallCat and have just begun recording thier 9 song album with us again at TallCat ! Go check them out!
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My Interests

Music and the business! Engineering for sound and video. Studio Gear. I am also profoundly interested in the design of loudspeakers.

I'd like to meet:

People that are in the music biz are always good to meet, I'm always expanding my horizons! I've gotta talk to someone that has gone into space and ask them what it felt like. I get along with just about anybody. People from other parts of the world are always interesting to meet too.

Movies:

Crash, Fight Club, Lord of War, Kung Pow. Just stuff to waste time and entertain me!!

Television:

NO tv

Books:

Magazines more so.. Newspaper.. Net stuff, Maxim thanks Shellie, Tax Reference Documents, Snail the insect history and evolution. Very interesting read. Amazing animal!! You heheheheYou got this far!

Heroes:

My Predecessors for surviving so long in every way.........

My Blog

My kinda party a little violence a little fun and a couple light sabers

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Posted by Tom on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:26:00 PST

Studio Work

Been working my ass off lately to say the least! My band has been making good progress on our album but, its a long road to completion. We've been growing tighter as people, I think more understanding...
Posted by Tom on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:12:00 PST

Its to late for this

Well its late for me early for everyone else around this city I suppose..  but whatever I've been editing BTN drums for the last few hours after our show last night with Psychostick&nb...
Posted by Tom on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 08:39:00 PST

BTN Drums

Three songs flushed out! I tried to do Going Down and got frustrated I drank one of those XXL Green Monster Energy drinks and had to stop those things are a little too much when you're trying to conce...
Posted by Tom on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 07:12:00 PST

BTN Drums

Alright after all options I've got my Mic selection done and have began tracking! They imaging is sick sounds like you are in the room with me on some of the tracks and messing around with rough mixin...
Posted by Tom on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 07:05:00 PST

BTN Drums the Begin

Yes finally have everything in place to get this launched and off the ground! Got finished yesterday night tuning the set to "C" and it sounds acoustically fantastic. The Kick especially its got that ...
Posted by Tom on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 07:01:00 PST

Internal Defect Project

Editing was backburned for a couple of days I have been editing Steve from Internal Defect his drums for a little while now. He is a bad ass drummer in my not so humble opinion! I ...
Posted by Tom on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 06:57:00 PST

Hexa Drums

Just finished Drums for Hexa. Ryan a client of  TallCat  is the man behind the project. Wow Did the drums come out kick ass! They sound huge. We used my tuning ...
Posted by Tom on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 06:48:00 PST

Practice

Was good we finally practiced again I guess this means the studio will be finished soon.. Very hard to believe considering I haven't really felt like anything but a studio builder in it everyday... Lo...
Posted by Tom on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:30:00 PST