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About the studio
Based in Hilliard, Ohio, this home project studio has as its workhorse, a Mackie 2404LVC4, 24 channel mixing console with 20 Onxy preamps & onboard effects. This runs into a Presonus interface, StudaoOne.6 Artist DAW,, and finally a MacBook Mini. I also have tape capabilities through new old stock Sansui SD7000 reel-to-reel and a JVC dual dubbing deck. There are numerous outboard effects and a Peavey RTD graphic equalizer and plenty of DI Boxes. There are numerous guitars and amps available, a wide array of pedals, percussion instruments, ethnic stringed instruments, keys & synths by Yahama, Korg, & Casio, sin wave generators, & other fun, interesting musical bits.
The room itself has and needs no acoustical treatment due to odd room shape with slanted beamed ceiling, carpeting, a hallway at one end and wide kitchen entrance at the other.I also have a nice deck for outdoor recording. Coming soon is a separate amp recording room.
I started in the 1990s with two cheap tape recorder, dubbing back and forth. Soon I had a Tascam 4-track cassette recorder and zero knowledge, demoing my songs and the performances of my first blues band. From there I have learned and upgraded to what I have today.
A big shoutout to the following awesome people at the Columbus Music-Go-Round, Bethel Road: Brett, Hakim, Paul, Christian, Chris, and Connor. They keep me will-equipped, and provide great service and parts support, and even give us free technical advice. Also, major thanks to Don's luthier friend, David Blowers, for first class repairs and restorations, and for constantly searching the guitar oceans for vintage 60's Japanese models. The Very Best!
Philosophy:
To stay true to the music and what the audience hears, I do not make use of devices such as pitch correction, quantizing, drum samples, post-production re-amping, amplifier simulations, and other studio "tricks" that make music sound sterile, formulaic, and inauthentic, in the studio and live. I use real instruments, amplifiers and effects pedals. I believe that music should sound clear, have warmth, clarity, and depth of sound and dynamics. I endeavor to serve up the best elements of music.
The basis for good recording comes from EQing, not “fixing it in the mix”, but getting it right from the start. For stringed instruments this means recording from amps, with mic choice and placement at speakers critical. The same for drums and percussion, only no amps! I mix with my ears, not my eyes. Any stems for which poat-recording EQ is used, are color graphed, to ensure that everything can be heard in the mix at their optimal Hz/kHz frequencies.
I will run mixes through the studio monitors, but who listens to their music through those? No one. Keeping that in mid I review mixes through quality and cheap stereo speakers, computer speakers, cell phones, car audio, Altec-Lansing stereo bluetooth speaker, and a Behringer live mixer powered by a 400 watt Peavey power amp, run through Electro Voice ZX1-90 PA speakers. This gives the best possible overall mix and mastering. I mix at 65-75 Db because thats he volume most people listen at with comfort, not the 85 club or 120 concert levels.
I have diagnostic and other tools at my disposal. Want to see before recording which guitar has the hottest pickups? I can show you live by the numbers. Think a cable or jack is bad? Got it covered. Want to run two amps together without damaging something? I can do that. Pedal effects aren’t just for guitars! Want to try running organ or synth through a Digitech Whammy or Earthquaker Data Corrupter Let’s do it! Add in found sounds! I’m already doing it! No limits and the word can’t doesn’t exist here until we try.
I like experimentation and have many odd tricks and methods at my disposal. I am constantly in a state of learning. I have learned from my mistakes. and failures, from my friend, engineer Tim Hoffman, and online from people such as Glenn Fricker (Spectre Sound Studios}, Mario Santos, and Tim Pierce. I can offer suggestions and advice from my over 60 years experience as a musician in garage projects and performing in bars and small clubs, studio recording for others, and 30 years of demoing. I also have about eight years experience in video production.
I can register and publish works. I am ASCAP registered and utilize Distrokid for uploading. My ASCAP registered publishing entity is Buddha Bums Publishing.
All released songs are written and copyright protected by Don Kloss, ASCAP. All songs published by Buddha Bums Publishing, ASCAP.