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Acumen Recordings

About Me


  Adam likes the Dolphins and is tall, Kevin likes the Bills and is short! Bonkers! They're a regular Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau! (cough) Acumen Recordings is the base project studio for engineers Kevin Weise and Adam Bell. Set up to make recording feel as natural as possible, it's sits comfortably in a cottage on Conesus Lake in Western New York's Magnificent Finger Lakes Region. Extra space and beds are available for clients, should the need for lodging arise. Essentially this is a place for anyone looking to hang out and make some music. For more information, peruse the links below. We're always looking for new projects, and we are well versed in semi-colon usage ta boot (we're forever indebted Chris Czerw!). Not a musician? Well, maybe we can still be friends...

Check out the engineers demo real

Equipment List

Visit the Studio Auditions listing

Check out some music that the engineers made themselves

We offer:
Recording and Mixing your projects
Voice-over Recordings (NO ISDN or Phone Patch... yet)
Songwriter Demo Arranging
Live Sound Engineering
Remote Recording
Recording/Pro Tools Lessons
Cassette and Vinyl Transfers
College Audition Demo's

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Those who love music and the generally creative types... and possibly you too...

go buy this record


Jon Itkin's website

"Living the Dream" album cover

My Blog

Top 10 Albums of 2008

Unlike every other "Top Albums List" ever made I decided to wait until the year was actually over to make my final version (I think Rolling Stone's was out in July), and let me get a little more pers...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:20:00 GMT

Joe the Plummer in studio next week

So as we listen to the suits stick to their talking points, us real folks are still hard at work.Here is an overdue update of all the goings on at AR:Slip Restaurant's new EP is a few tweaks away from...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:07:00 GMT

Adam’s Top 25 stand-up list

25 Jim Breuer  Anyone who loves AC/DC enough to have a band on stage deserves to be on this list.  (Half Baked=yes  Goat Boy=no) 24 Demitri Martin  He'd be higher on this list but he's to...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:08:00 GMT

Kevin's Top 25 Stand-Up Comedians

If I can just bring things down a bit, I'd like to take a second to pay my respects to the rot of stand-up comedy.  Of all  the jobs in show business it by far is the hardest.  All alon...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:20:00 GMT

Top 25 TV Theme Songs of All Time

Adam's Top 25 TV Theme Songs of All TimeWhat can I say about Kevin's list other than I would give it a B, B+ at best. I think it was a great effort and has some great tunes that I missed, however usin...
Posted by on Tue, 27 May 2008 07:04:00 GMT

Top 25 Number 1 Hits Of All-Time

TOP 25 NUMBER 1 HITS OF ALL TIME MUST HAVE HIT NUMBER 1 ON THE US HOT 100 OR EQUIVALENT CHART TO QUALIFY THIS IS THE FIRST IN WHAT WILL BE A STRING OF TOP 25 LISTS, ONCE A MONTH OR SO WE WILL POST IN ...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:08:00 GMT

Counterpoint: Kevin is a slut

Kevin, you ignorant slut.  Only degenerates with a moral fabric as thin and sheared as yours clearly is could conjure up such a ludicrous assessment that ESPN does damage to the real world. ...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:50:00 GMT

*21* would make a great ESPN movie

This blog has been updated so many times, it' starting to feel like Bruce McCullough's classic Kids in the Hall monologue to the guy whole stole his bike wheel.Disclaimer/editor's note: this entry doe...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:28:00 GMT

Look... the storms gone!

    Well, it's that time of year when life outside of doors begins to stop sucking so hard... which is nice.  Anyway as you may have read in some previous blogs, we've been rather ...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:15:00 GMT

But Baby Its Cold Outside......

Has it really been a year and a half since we worked with Jon Itkin on his latest project, Big Gold Guitar in the Sky?  Those were some fund times spent on the lake with great music being played....
Posted by on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:54:00 GMT