Cousin Vinnie - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Hi, my name is Vince and I'm a musician. I play bass guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, drums and sing. I write songs for The Crossway Worship Band and produce recordings for them. My wife Janis and I have been married since January 17, 1993 and together we have 2 beautiful daughters: Madison 13 and Mariah 10. I play bass for the local group "The Super 5". It's a lot of fun. I like working with everyone in that band. The crowds are awesome! I love my church family, my kids, my incredibly beautiful wife (I don't deserve her).I am the CEO, Owner, & Chief Engineer for Apogee Sound Recorders in Memphis, TN. Apogee is a 32-Track Digital Pro-Tools facility powered by MACPRO. I've re-designed the front two rooms of my house with thick doors/glass, and Auralex Acoustic treatments, and have eliminated the parallel surfaces from floor to ceiling/wall to wall in both the control room and the tracking room for optimum frequency response. It's not perfect.......BUT IT SURE SOUNDS GREAT IN HERE!!!!I have in-house drums that get tuned up on a regular basis and just before sessions. I also have plenty of guitars, basses, and keyboards. I also have some really great mics for recording drums, vocals, guitars, etc.I'm an 'old-school' analog guy that was more comfortable with 2" tape and a 1/2" 2-track. I don't like computers all that much but it sure beats paying $200 for a roll of tape. I absolutely LOVE Pro-Tools. It's fast and it sounds wonderful....not as good as 2" Tape but if I keep searching I'll get there. The microphone is the 'instrument' of the recording engineer/producer. My favorite producers are Alan Parsons, Mutt Lang, SPECTOR, and George Martin. My Favorite engineers/producers in Memphis are PETE MATTHEWS, JASON LATSHAW, SKID MILLS, JAMES LOTT, NICKO LYRAS & DAVID COWELL. I still believe that if you can get the best sound at the source with the right mic you can get a great recording without clouding it up with artificial doo-doo.Message me to schedule a time to come by and visit my studio and schedule a time to record or email me at [email protected] -----------------------------------------------------------f ound this music layout at HOT FreeLayouts.com :: MyHotComments

My Interests

God, Family, Friends, Music, time/space continuum, current events, history, photography.

I'd like to meet:

God, Chris Cornell, Steve Vai (I met him once 20 years ago but would like to meet him again), Alice Cooper.

Music:

Classic Rock, Jam Bands, Praise & Worship, Ethereal.....Anything the pushes the boundaries of 'creation'. I do listen to a lot of 'popular' music for production ideas.

Movies:

The Matrix, Office Space, What Women Want. The Passion of the Christ, X-Men, The Shining, Rudy, A Beautiful Mind, DIE HARD (all of 'em!)

Television:

That 70's Show, CSI-NY, House, Family Guy, King of The Hill, Malcolm In The Middle, David Letterman

Books:

The Bible, Think & Grow Rich, The Secret of The Ages

Heroes:

Jesus Christ, Jaco, Charlie Parker, Doug Simmers......but most of all, my DAD.

My Blog

Musical Resume

Born April 6, 1965 to John & Kathryn Leffler. I have two older borthers, Greg (deceased) who was 10 years older than I and Jay who is 8 years older. My Dad and my brother Greg are/were both excellen...
Posted by Cousin Vinnie on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:34:00 PST

Mastering Software!

Ok......so it’s not real mastering but it sure does add a lot to the final mix! I wasn’t able to use the software before last week because I didn’t have the codes to download it to ...
Posted by Cousin Vinnie on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:01:00 PST

Casea Adams "Exhale"

Casea Adams and Kyla Hunt came into studio to clean up tracks on a new song called 'Exhale' this past Saturday evening. We had recorded the song previously when I first started up the studio. Howeve...
Posted by Cousin Vinnie on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:18:00 PST

Zack Mack: Singer/Songwriter!

OK......so about 2 weeks ago I get a message from Zack Mack. Zack and I played together in Dani's band. You may know her from places around town like BB's & Issac Hayes and her work on Fried Green O...
Posted by Cousin Vinnie on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:19:00 PST

Here Lies October

The band 'Here Lies October' has just put up new music recorded at Apogee Sound Recorders for your listening. Go Check it out @: http://www.myspace.com/hereliesoctober V...
Posted by Cousin Vinnie on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:18:00 PST

Here Lies October; Screamo from Olive Branch!!

I finished up mixes for the Screamo band "Here Lies October" last night at around midnight!....under the gun to finish the mixes, I began to recall all the little 'tricks of the trade' I've picked up ...
Posted by Cousin Vinnie on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:16:00 PST

Screamo from Olive Branch

Just finished a marathon recording session with the Screamo band 'Here Lies October' from Olive Branch MS. We spent 10 plus hours laying down basic tracks and overdubs for 4 songs and had a blast. Th...
Posted by Cousin Vinnie on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:52:00 PST

Kyla

Ok....so Kyla Hunt, Ben Cowell and myself are in kahoots on this new song we are writing that sound like Audioslave, NIN, Alice in Chains & R.A.T.M. rolled up into a big spleef and well.....you get th...
Posted by Cousin Vinnie on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:36:00 PST

APOGEE SOUND RECORDERS

Last night 2/2/08, I finished a demo session for Jacqueline Simmers in my studio. The session went great!! We were able to cut, mix & burn a CD of 4 worship songs in less than 3 hours! The performa...
Posted by Cousin Vinnie on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:29:00 PST