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Mark Pistel's Room 5 Recording

Mark Pistel Produces and Records Bands at Room 5

About Me

Mark Pistel Records and Produces Bands and solo artists at Room 5 in San Francisco.Room 5 is a comfortable recording space with a great sounding live room and several isolation spaces packed with cool vintage gear coupled with the latest in digital technology.You can record through Neve preamps to a Vintage 70's MCI 2" 24 track analog tape, then bounce into a Pro Tools 7.4 HD -TDM system for editing and mixing.We've got sought after vintage outboard gear like the Roland Space Echo (2 of 'em) and Maestro Echoplex, 70's Tascam spring reverb. Vintage synths- Arp 2600, MiniMoog,Serge Modular, and more.I also make beats in Live, Reason And Reaktor.I've been collecting this stuff for a long time and have everything you need to help express your sonic vision. Please write me for a complete gear list and rates.I've been making records in the bay area for more than 15 years... Here's the short list of projects I've involved with:Consolidated...yeah that was me. Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Meat Beat Manifesto,Tino Corp, ledenhed, Hot Mute, Latin Soul Syndicate.Clients at Room 5 include: Michael Franti and Spearhead, Chuck Prophet, Black Mahal, Billy Gould (Faith No More), Billy Anderson (Melvins, Porn, etc), Blame Sally, Von Iva, Project Pimento, Azeem, Yung Mars, Turn Me On Dead man, Joti, Rykarda Parasol, MC Rai, Sueco and many more. here's my discography http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mark+Pistel

My Interests

Vintage Synthesizers and Recording Gear

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people interested in making interesting music
Moral Integrity at room 5

Music:

Consolidated, Meat Beat Manifesto, Tino Corp, Electronic Dub Collective, Disopable Heroes of Hiphoprisy,ledenhed, Latin Soul Syndicate, Hot Mute.

Movies:

I've had my music placed in "The Whole 10 Yards", "Cool World", "Late Last Night","Want" to name a few

Television:

I've had my music placed in "Desperate Housewives", Malcom in the Middle", "Third Watch", MTV's "Real World" and "Road Rules" and quite a few others

Heroes:

King Tubby, Adrian Sherwood, Jimmy Miller, Roy Thomas Baker, Brian Eno, George Martin, John Lennon, George Harrison, Mick Ronson, Morton Subotnick, John Cage,Kurt Vonnegut, etc, etc...