Return to Zero (audio productions)

About Me

This is where I come in. Years of musicianship, studio, and live preformance come into play in this, the RtZ project. A well trained ear is essential in the process of mixing, equalization, and production of a great recording, and I have personally recorded in several bands in professional studios such as SouthWest (Roanoke) and Cybersounds (Chesepeke), not to mention years of independant recording environments, to lend my experience to the quest for the best a band has to offer. Want to lay down some strait-forward tracks? I can oblige. Want to sink your teeth into something completely mind-blowing? We can make it happen. Playing live shows can expose your music to a few hundred people, if your're lucky. By the way, I can record a live show better than you'd think. But a great album of solidly produced material can really excite people, people you'd never met, in places you'd never been to. Ever hear the album, Machine Gun Ettiquite, by The Damned? Or The Marshall Suite, by The Fall? Kick Out the Jams? Or Rick Ruben's production of Danzig? Miles Davis with Down on the Corner? These guys knew how to make their music sound fuckin' sweet, and my point is that production really matters, and someone with my aptitudes in pitch/rhythem discrimination and technical skill can open up new possibilities for your music that no one else can -- at least in the low-budget range.

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/3/2008
Band Website: email: [email protected]
Band Members: Nyal and the HD-1608I've also recorded the likes of several VA bands: Kiste ( myspace.com/kisteband ), Order (of the dying orchid... myspace.com/orderorder ), Annalise Lovelace ( myspace.com/annaliselovelace ), plus a few local live shows featruing Horsefang, Kahoutek, and Julie Mittens of Holland.
Influences: Miles Davis, Steve Albini, Martin Birtch, Can, Don Dieffenbach (Orgone), Randy Melton (Cybersounds), Mike Layne (Fort Eustress), Brainiac, Tom Waits, Einstruzunde Neubauten, Rick Ruben, Mark E. Smith, Tascam....Bombs away

Sounds Like: The embreyonic end of the record industry, the next phase of electro-sonic evolution.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

I will record your band for $10.00 an hour!

For those interested, I'm looking for bands/artists to record. I'm charging ten bucks an hour, which is as cheap as it gets for what I can do. We have 16 tracks to work with, plus 8 simultaneous track...
Posted by Return to Zero (audio productions) on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:59:00 PST

New Tracks 8/08:

The 2 new songs are Burn the FM (Radio) by Return to Zero, a straight-forward beat driven rock number, and Hollow Veins by the new band, Kiste. I recorded 5 songs by them spur-of-the-moment, live in t...
Posted by Return to Zero (audio productions) on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:30:00 PST

Advertizement

This emailing is an effort to promote awareness of Return to Zero, a site exibiting self-recorded muti-track songs from a guy living in a simultaneously hick/bourgoisie town in the gut of Virginia. Th...
Posted by Return to Zero (audio productions) on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:47:00 PST

Live Order/No Band

I've recorded my first live show. Sunday night, Order (of the Dying Orchid) played a show at the local Dust Warehouse (thanks Curt) and I set up a few microphones: a bass mic on the kick drum, a conde...
Posted by Return to Zero (audio productions) on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:44:00 PST

Recording (rates, etc.):

Message me about scheduling a session. Rates range at about $10 and hour from start of recording time, not including set-up. $20 required up-front, to keep me from getting dicked my jerks. Plan f...
Posted by Return to Zero (audio productions) on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PST

Searching for musicians around C-Vile

Talk to me. If it's too mainstream, I may become mean and sarcastic.
Posted by Return to Zero (audio productions) on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:52:00 PST

The birth of RTZ (explanation of songs)

So far, we have three types: 1) Acoustic-y stuff with me singing and drums and electric guitars mixed in. These are predominantly "busking" songs that I've fleshed out with instrumentation. 2) "EVP" s...
Posted by Return to Zero (audio productions) on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:59:00 PST