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Russian Recording

About Me


Russian Recording is a professional recording studio owned and operated by Mike Bridavsky, and provides a unique relaxed atmosphere to create and document music. The studio recently relocated from Brown County, Indiana to it's new home in Bloomington, IN. The new space is less than 4 miles from downtown and resides in the building formerly known as The Art Hospital, previously home to Secretly Canadian Records.
The new studio was built during the summer of 2008. No corners were cut in the design, construction. or aesthetcis of the new facility. The studio consists of three tracking rooms (a huge live room, a live isolation room and a dead isolation room), a spacious control room and a huge band lounge. Every room was carefully built within a large open space with 17' ceilings, and was designed specifically with recording in mind... from the new HVAC design to an all new star grounded electrical service and maximum isolation between rooms. There are even 220 V outlets installed in all of the tracking rooms to power our russian tube mics.
Russian Recording takes pride in being able to provide an extremely high level of recording quality in a comfortable and stress-free enviornment with unprecedented dedication to reliablity, efficiency and commitment for independant musicians, bands and labels that otherwise could not afford this degree of service and quality.
RATES:
w/ Mike Bridavsky as Engineer:
$300/day
Studio Rental w/o *Engineer:
$200/day
Mastering: $5/minute of audio
* if you would like to bring your own engineer, please contact the studio first to discuss details. Any of the engineers listed on this page are also available for hire. Please contact them directly for their rates.
Damien Jurado live at Russian Recording:
Damien Jurado - sheets from Chelsea on Vimeo .
Laura Gibson Live at Russian Recording:
Laura Gibson - hands in pockets from Chelsea on Vimeo .
video by Blueline
www.russianrecording.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/17/2004
Band Website: www.russianrecording.com
Band Members: Chief Engineer, Owner, Russian Guy:
Mike Bridavsky
Visiting Engineers:
Mike Notaro
Mike Dixon
Dave Vettraino
Influences: CLIENTS INCLUDE:
FOR A MUCH MORE UP TO DATE AND COMPLETE LIST OF CLIENTS, WITH LINKS, PHOTOS AND MORE DETAILED INFO, CLICK IN THIS ALL-CAPS SENTENCE TO BE ELECTRONICALLY TRANSPORTED TO THE CLIENTS PAGE OF OUR WEBSITE.

Abner Trio
Affirmation Records
African American Arts Institute
Alexander the Great
All Nite Skate
American Werewolves
Andrea Swift
Andy Dick Tracy Morgan Freeman
Angelville
Coachlight Musical Theatre
The Coke Dares
Child Bite
Chris Kupersmith
A Caesar Holiday (Coitus?)
Courtesy Shot
Daniel Fishwick
David Andrews
The Dead Popes
Defiance, Ohio
Delay
The Delicious
Destroy Knowing
Dixie Fried Diablo
East Race
Ephemeroptera
Everthus the Deadbeats
Faith Kleppinger
Fax Arcana
The Five Believers
Floating Hand
The Future
Gentleman Caller
Good/Bad
Good Luck
Happy Couples Never Last Records
Holy Bible
The Horribly Wrong
The Humanists
Jolie Mullin
Joyful Noise Recordings
Kari Palma
Lafcadio
Los Gatos Negros
Lucky Pineapple
Kentucky Nightmare
Madeline
Magnolia Electric Company/Songs:Ohia
Malatesta
The Max Levine Ensemble
Medusa
Metal In the Microwave
Mike Dixon
Mike Notaro
Mohlmin
Morrow
Mouthbreather
Mutinhimira Marimba Ensemble
Nate Jackson
Nicotones
Nidus
One Nation Under God
Overnight Haven
Panoply Academy
Paul Aarstad
The Phillipines
Portia Maultsby
The Post
Pretty Hot
Prizzy Prizzy Please
Proof
Punk In Pie
Puppy Vs Dyslexia
Push-Pull
Raccoo-oo-oon
Racebannon
Rapscallionz
Rapider Than Horsepower
Rogue Wave
See It Through
Sentinel
Shawn Perigon
Sheasby Matiure and the Mbira Queens
Shoot Coward
STATE
Strom
Sump Pumps
Sonny Bamboo
Thin Fevers
Thousand Arrows
Tony Ponella
Turn Pale
Turtle Head
Trio In Stereo
Unlucky Strikes
Wasteland DC
We Are Hex
Whitney Thetford
Whiskeytits

Sounds Like: CONSOLES:
Speck S72
OZ Audio HM-6 Headphone Matrix and Amplifier

MONITORING:
B&W Matrix 805 Loudspeakers
Bryston 4B Power Amplifier
Sunfire True Subwoofer MKII
Event 20/20 bas Studio Monitors
(6) x Extreme Isolation Headphones

RECORDERS:
2.6 GHz Pentium 4 w/dual 19" LCDs running
Samplitude v.7.23 (see outboard equipment for
A/D and D/A)
Studer B67 1/4" half track

MICROPHONES:
Condensors:
LOMO 19A-13 (tube)
LOMO 19A-9 (tube)
LOMO 19A-7 (tube)
Oktava MK-13m (tube modified)
Sony C48p
Audio Technica AT4050
Gefell PM750 (w/M70 capsule)
Shure KSM141
(2) x Earthworks TC30K (matched pair)
(2) x Josephson C42
(2) x Shure SM98
(2) Oktava MK012 (w/Dorsey modification), w/(2) x card, (2) x omni, (2), hyper, LOMO M3 and Red B3 Capsules
Ribbons:
(2) x Oktava ML-15
(2) x Oktava ML-19

Moving Coil Dynamics:
AKG D112
AKG D190E
(2) x Sennheiser MD421 II
(2) x EV RE-55
(2) x Stedman N90
(3) Shure SM57
Bang and Olufsen Beomic 1000
LOMO 82A-5m
Audix D4
Tesla AMD410
Voice of Music

OUTBOARD:
Mic Preamps and A/D, D/A Conversion:
Crane Song Spider
Langevin Dual Vocal Combo
Hamptone HJFP2
Hamptone HVTP2
Sytek MPX-4
(2) x MOTU HD192 w/Black Lion Audio I/O Modifications
MOTU 2408 MKIII w/Black Lion Audio Output Modifications
Processing:
(2) x Distressor EL8-X
(2) x Chandler Limited Germanium Compressor
Soviet LTC-1 Compressor/Limiter
BSS DPR 402
DBX 160X
Langevin Dual Vocal Combo (Elop Compressor)
DBX Quantum
FMR RNC
Audion PS-3010
Electrical Audio M-S Decoder (prototype)
(2) x Speck ASC-T EQ
Orban 526a
TC Electronics M-One XL
Boss SX-700

INSTRUMENTS:
70's Slingerland Drumset (24, 13, 18)
60's Gretch Round Badge drumset (22, 13, 14)
60's Ludwig Snare Drum (wood)
70's Slingerland Snare Drum (brass)
Various modern and vintage cymbals
Various percussion
Guild S300-D electric guitar
Yamaha SA 2000 semi hollow body electric guitar
Guild S-60D electric guitar (modified)
Kramer DMZ 5000 electric bass guitar
Bill Jancar Custom acoustic guitar
Baldwin Hamilton upright piano
Lap Dulcimer

AMPLIFIERS/SPEAKER CABINETS:
Original 70's Sunn Model-T
Sovtek MIG-100B "Bassov Blues Boy"
Sovtek MIG-50
"Silverface" Fender Twin Reverb
Fender Blues Deluxe
Alamo Challenger (custom Notaro head enclosure)
Marshall JCM 900 2 x 12"
Ampeg SVT15e 1 x 15"
Altec horn

Record Label: RR

My Blog

Live videos from Russian Recording: Damien Jurado and Laura Gibson

I posted some live videos show by Blueline. The videos are from the Damien Jurado and Laura Gibson show that happened in mid-March. The audio was recorded and mixed live at the studio. Thanks to Isaac...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:45:00 GMT

We Just Call It Roulette: Volume Two: coming out soon... tracks up!

Since the release of the new compilation is coming up real soon, I uploaded 6 tracks from the comp to the myspace player.The first three are Child Bite, Medusa and Beyond things. Those are the three b...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:51:00 GMT

We are having shows here. Good ones.

So as of this month, I will be hosting shows at the studio. I just invested in a decent PA system, and we will be building a stage this month. Shows will not being happening very often, maybe a few a ...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:36:00 GMT

1) We Just Call It Roulette Vol. 2 finally coming out!!! Relase Show in March!

I know it's been a long while, but the new Russian Recording compilation is in the final stages of completion! We Just Call It Roulette, Volume 2 will be officially released on Saturday, March 28th a...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:02:00 GMT

2) Rate Increase Starting June 21st

So after building the new studio and running it full time for 6 months, I realized that I will need to raise my rates if I want be able to keep up my payments AND have a life of any kind. Raising rate...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:43:00 GMT

3) AVAILABILITY: as of February 24th, 2009

This is the third of three new blogs posted on February 24th, 2009.I just came out of 47 consecutive days of recording. And although things are still pretty busy, they aren't THAT busy. So I wanted to...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:08:00 GMT

New Recordings Posted: 1/14/09

So I put up some recently finished stuff. ROOMS:I had an unfinished track up previously (no vox, rough mix). We just finished mixing the record last week. So I replaced that one with a finished song. ...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:19:00 GMT

New recordings from the new space... 12/1/08

I finally got around to posting some recordings from the new space. It's a wide variety of music, and each session involved a different recording approach. So if you're intersted in that kind of stuff...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:07:00 GMT

The new place is great. Lets make a record.

Since the opening of the new space in September, it's been pretty busy here with a variety of projects. I've recorded classical theorbo and wooden flute, recorded classical violin with piano accompani...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:46:00 GMT

GRAND OPENING FRIDAY OCTOBER 3RD!!!

We moved to Bloomington, IN this summer. And the whole summer has been spent building a while new ridiculous studio into the building formerly known as the Art Hospital. After 3 months of 10-16 hour d...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:28:00 GMT