Thrashin' Vamp Studios - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I like tweaking 3.5 characters to be useful under 10th level, watching Attack of the Show! and fuse, sitting on the edge of my bed and staring at my shoes, writing tunes and hoping to get one of these motherfucking songs to hit.
I run a recording studio outside of Iron Mountain, been going for 5 years. I do production, tracking, mixing, and basic mastering. Get ahold of me here for more info on acts done, equipment owned, and prices.

My Interests

Playing and writing music, gaming, and writing. Some of the RPGs I play are: D&D, Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, D20 Modern, Shadowrun, Cyberpunk, A3R, Mechwarrior and Battletech. I have tons of short stories and half finished ideas. Be careful or I'll show them to you.

I'd like to meet:

Everybody waiting for something exciting to happen, I'd like to give you something to do while you wait.

Music:

My band Money Shot XTC, U2, Johnny Cash, Butch Walker, Injected, American Hi/Fi, Lit, The Police, Fall Out Boy, The Used, Black Stone Cherry, MCR, LOG, TON, Underoath, Pantera, Sepultura, Sugarcult, NIN, AFI, AIC, Buck Owens, Dwight Yoakam, Clutch

Movies:

Lord of the Rings Trilogy The Crow Titan A.E. The Nightmare Before Christmas Underworld (both) Batman Begins Sin City Star Trek(most of them) More as they come to me...

Television:

History Channel TLC PBS Discovery Attack of the Show Simpsons Family Guy Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends Spongebob Top Gear Robot Chicken Frisky Dingo ...

Books:

Comics - Hellblazer, Y: The Last Man, DMZ, Conan (in almost any form but the Dark Horse series is great!), Jonah Hex, Punisher (the Ennis run...), Loveless, The Boys, Elephant Men, and of course, Books of Magic and Sandman

Books - Sci/Fi and Fantasy mostly, with some Alt History thrown in. Too many to put down.

Heroes:

Inventor of the "bu-WHOOooo" bass pull. Improves any song.

My Blog

New Genelec monitors!!

Spent the weekend in the Twin Cities and picked up a set of 8020's. Genelec monitors are found in almost every pro studio in the world, and these blew away every other nearfield I put them up against ...
Posted by Thrashin' Vamp Studios on Mon, 19 May 2008 11:19:00 PST

Got a new tune up at Cutting Edge!

Wrote a tune for the great folks at Cutting Edge Photography (www.cuttingedgephoto.net), go check it out! Thanks much to Dave Hakamaki for a great slideshow! Cutting Edge...
Posted by Thrashin' Vamp Studios on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:40:00 PST

Greyhawk Mourns

Gary Gygax died today. Got to meet him at Gen Con once, he was really cool to all of us gamers just trying to say thanks for all he's done and made. Wonder which Plane he picked...
Posted by Thrashin' Vamp Studios on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:39:00 PST

So far so good

'Sup? Thashin' Vamp Studios has been in business 5 years now! Thanks much to all the people that have supported me and the great acts I've been fortunate enough to work with. Got a couple more upgrade...
Posted by Thrashin' Vamp Studios on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:17:00 PST

Gibson switch > Epi switch, the $15.00 upgrade

My '05 Gibson Studio is supposed to have the same parts as my '97 Standard. Turns out it actually had an Epiphone switch in it (and who knows how much else...). I put a real Switchcraft switch in yest...
Posted by Thrashin' Vamp Studios on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:40:00 PST

They killed 355!!!

That sucks, I was hoping they would get together. Gonna be interesting to see what he does on his own. And a Doctor Evil ref, that made me smile. And in Loveless turns out the main character has been ...
Posted by Thrashin' Vamp Studios on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:51:00 PST

Spring/summer

Whoa, been a bit...Had a bunch of people in, Clueless 441, Water Water Everywhere, SHC, Summit Road, and a few more. The new board works AMAZING, the sound I get with it is freakin' sweet. Go hit thei...
Posted by Thrashin' Vamp Studios on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:25:00 PST

Winter update

Been doing a ton of recording lately, had several new acts come in for demos and personal cd's. Have one or two that are working towards having cd's for sale too, that always takes much longer.I've be...
Posted by Thrashin' Vamp Studios on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:55:00 PST

Fallish update

Been pretty good at neglecting my blogs this year. Now that I've gotten the obvious out of the way...Recorded some new stuff for How I Won The War (3 guys from Charis and two new dudes). John is mixin...
Posted by Thrashin' Vamp Studios on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:31:00 PST

Summit Road is done!

And I think it rocks. Good tunes, good performances, it mixed down well. Looking forward to seeing it with packaging and art. Pick it up when you see it, tell them I sent ya ...
Posted by Thrashin' Vamp Studios on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:34:00 PST