Welcome to my Studio
(one day we'll find a name for it!)

Since February 2005 I've been using my rehearsal studio to record individual musicians and bands. This past year has seen a new collaboration with recording engineer (and longtime friend) Claus Frostell setting up shop in the studio. Claus brings years of experience, great ears and tons of equipment!

Studio NEWS :

Claus and I did some major reorganizating and rewiring in the studio to keep things clean and efficient.

Duo Traces have been doing some recording for a National Film Board project.

Lubo Alexandrov did some overdubs for his second album. Claus recorded the first album which won a Juno for best World Music album 2007

The first full length CD to be recorded in the studio was Call Me Poupée. Recorded by Claus and Don Murnaghan and produced by Ramachandra Borcar.

Claus has been recording Creature. The final mixes are being prepared as I type this so look for a release soon.

Dan Meier is recording some new material for Lo and the Magnetics.

I've been recording percussionist Patrick Graham, flutist Nicholas Williams and lots of strings for composer Michael Oesterle.

The Room: -700 square feet room -ceilings 10 feet high -wood floor -mix of cinder block and gypsum walls -moveable sound absorption panels The studio offers a large, bright and live sounding room as an alternative to major recording studios and sound stages. Composers, producers, bands or musicians gain access to a wide variety of instruments in a flexible recording environment at a fraction of the cost of a regular studio. (Click and Drag on the image to see more)

Recording equipment
Digidesign 002R, Pro Tools LE system on a G5 powermac.
Sennheiser, AKG, Shure, Audio Technica, EV, Beyer Dynamics and Oktava microphones.
Focusrite, Aphex, Digidesign and Studer preamps.
DBX, SSL, Aphex, Lexicon rack gear.

A List of my instruments

Tuned Instruments
marimba, vibraphone, glock, crotales, steel drum, thai gongs

Drums drumset (Gretsch, Rogers), snare drums (Gretsch, Slingerland, Rogers, Leedy, piccolo), srchestral Bass drum, toms, bongos, congas, timbales, doumbek, darbouka, zarb, surdo, ripenique, tamborim Cymbals and Gongs crash cymbals, chinese cymbals, splash cymbals, ride cymbals, rivet cymbal, tam-tam (30”, 20”, 8”), japanese temple bowls, chinese bending gongs, metal plates, thunder sheet

Miscellaneous Instruments waterphone, wood blocks, temple blocks, log drums, tambourines, noah bells, wind chimes (wood, metal, glass, bamboo), finger cymbals, triangles, maracas, ratchet, flexatone, whip, buzzstick, metal crasher, various metal parts, cuica, caxixi, agogo bells, ganza