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The Steele Factory Recording Studio

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Welcome to The Steele Factory

The Steele Factory is a full-service Pro Tools recording and mixing studio with an in-house production team. New York City based producers/songwriters Benny Steele and Dayna Hollins own The Steele Factory, a three room recording studio and production house. The Steele Factory is now doing sound design for Stella Adler theatre at NYU and recording and mixing for countless musicians in many genres including; rock, jazz, pop, R&B, hip-hop, classical and voice-overs. The production team, Hollins Steele, produces artists in the pop, rock, and R&B genres. Benny also makes hip hop beats/tracks.

The Steele Factory is available for the recording and mixing of demos and full length CDs. With an in-house songwriting/production team, The Steele Factory can accommodate all of your needs.

The Steele Factory has recorded musicians including Q-Tip, Raphael Saadiq, Meshell N’Degeocello, Roy Ayers, Corey Glover or Living Colour, Chocolate Genius, Amp Fiddler (George Clinton, Parliament/Funkadelic); Dede Bridgewater, Daniel Sadownick (Steeley Dan), Booker King (Santana, Kelis), Tomas Doncker (The Neville Brothers), Matt Beck (Matchbox 20, Rob Thomas), Ken Hellman (Sting) and John Deley (Dido) and jazz greats: Lincoln Goines, Robbie Ameen, Michael Cain, Gregoire Maret and Reuben Rodriguez. Dayna has also appeared on David Letterman’s Late Show singing with Fergie.

Hollins Steele is currently producing songs for an upcoming inspirational/pop/rock album by singer/songwriter Stevvi Alexander (Justin Timberlake, Gwen Stefani), songs for pop/soul singer/songwriter Tomas Doncker’s upcoming EP (The Neville Brothers, Bonnie Raitt) and has produced rock singer Colby Prior (opened for Gavin Degraw), and R&B singer/songwriter Michelle Collins. Benny Steele mixed rapper Theory’s Plan B: Theory is Everything (which had a track at 1 on Kiss FM 96.1) and engineered trance artist Jan Johnston’s vocal tracks for an upcoming Paul Oakenfold release. Benny Steele also co-produced 3rd Life’s album, World of Hurt and is currently co-producing Jason Spirit’s Spirit Sez.

The studio is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment to make your recording sound the best possible. Enjoy the comfort and affordability of this three room recording facility, which includes a recording room, iso booth and control room. The Steele Factory offers a professional and relaxed work environment so that you can focus on what is most important: your music. The Steele Factory is located in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn (near Grand Army Plaza) and is convenient to the 2/3, Q/B and C trains.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/1/2005
Band Website: http://www.TheSteeleFactory.com
Band Members: Benny Steele: drummer/engineer/songwriter/producer

Dayna Hollins: singer/songwriter/producer

Equipment:

Pro Tools HD Accel/ Macintosh G5

Digidesign 192 and Digidesign 96

Dangerous 2Bus Summing Mixer

Dangerous ST Monitoring System

High Quality Microphones (Soundelux E47, Blue Kiwi, Neumann M147, C2000s, C418s, Sennheiser MD421 and Shure SM57s)

Top Quality Mic Pre-Amps (Universal Audio, Avalon and Presonus)

Plug-Ins (Waves Gold Bundle, Amp Farm, Autotune, Sound Replacer, Revibe, Analogue Channel, Sound Toys, TL Space, Eventide, Lounge Lizard, Smack, Slightly Rude Compressor, Sony Oxford EQ, Reason, Vocalign and more...)

HR824 High Resolution Active Studio Monitors

TC Electronics MOne Effects Processor

High quality drumset from Precision Drums

Korg Triton (Synth / Sampler)

Amek Compressor

Empirical Labs Fatso

CD/DVD Burner

Mason & Hamlin Grand Piano


Influences: Marvin Gaye, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Meshell N'Degeocello, U2, Audioslave, Bach, D'Angelo, Sting, Paula Cole, Maxwell, Heart, Hall and Oates, Fleetwood Mac, Isley Brothers, Neptunes, Missy Elliott, Pat Metheny, Chic Corea, Coldplay, Van Halen, Chopin, Debussy, Bjork
Sounds Like: All Styles Welcome! Pop, Rock, Jazz, R&B, Hip Hop, Classical, Voiceovers, Folk, Country, Funk

Production work primarily in Pop, Rock, R&B, Hip Hop (we do beats/tracks)


Record Label: The Steele Factory
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

"A Soldier's Heart" Number 1 on 96.1 Kiss FM!!!

Exciting news from hip hop artist Theory whose song "A Soldier's Heart" (mixed at The Steele Factory by Benny Steele) made it to No. 1 (most requested song) on 96.1 Kiss FM (first independent artist t...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:56:00 GMT