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Kicking o! with the Victorian sound-smiths recording two singles with engineer, Callum At Sample and Hold Studio, the crew completed this issue, we see Toyland Studio in Northcote Barter. Meanwhile, Mat Robins is in the early audio mixes for TV campaigns for Disney busy recording basic tracks for the upcoming stages of tracking an album with movies, Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Bloodduster album, and completing an album band, Cardboard Machines. Coloursound is also Tides and Cars 2, sound design for short %lms for Melbourne death metal band, Eskhaton. inviting artists, and freelance engineers to pop in "e Wardrobe and White Square, along with At the other extreme, jazz fusion band, Logic, to say hello and see if the studio can cater to their recording and mixing songs with singer/ mixed their Live at Bennetts Lane DVD, Indy next project. songwriter, Ben Usher. David Ashton is also band, Wild Mind, mixed their full length album, pleased to report that a podcast he recorded T-Bone Tunes Recording Studio in St Kilda has hardcore band, "e Day Everything Became and edited, Boxcutters Episode 246, has won a been busy with tracks recorded and produced Nothing, tracked to two-inch tape (Ampex 456 Chronos Award. Props to David! for March In Moscow, Barry Jones, Dee Ellus, running at 15IPS) for their upcoming album, Karl Fredericks and "e Broken Splendour. Now to deepest, darkest Tassie, where Digital and AOR band, White Widow, tracked guitars New acquisitions abound: most recently (due to City Studios’ Michael Gissing has been in a for their second album. Toyland also completed popular demand), mastering plug-ins Izotope $urry with no less than four feature-length production audio for Radio 3AW and the Ozone and Waves Center. "ere’s also a new documentaries, back to back in the lead-up to Tutankhamun exhibition. Radio and TV spots microphone stand that looks like a crane, the Film Festival. Two documentaries: include the Led Zeplin Experience and Bat Outa apparently. T-Bone proprietor, Tony Salter, A Common Purpose and Scarlet Road were Hell shows. Gear used (and abused) at Toyland reckons it’s ace for overhead drum placement – it completed just weeks before being premiered includes the ever-faithful Neve 1084, Focusrite holds the Neumanns perfectly. at the SFF. A third documentary, Trouble with ISA 110 mic preamps and original UREI 1176 St Mary’s was screened on ABC’s Compass. compressors. Audrey Studios has been working on Liz "e %nal project for May/June was Curse of Stringer’s album, with Craig Pilkington At Crystal Mastering, those ensconced on the the Gothic, which was mixed in Melbourne at producing. Indigenous rock legends, Coloured Crystal Couch included "e Peep Temple, Black Soundwaves by Michael. "e doco traces the Stone, dropped in to do a new version of their Water Ri!, Scarlett, Brothers Grim, Jericco, 28-year struggle to perform Havigal Brian’s epic classic hit, Black Boy. tracked and Andy Van, A Day in the Life, Marvin Priest, In work, Symphony Number 1 – "e Gothic, in mixed a song for the TV series, O!spring, Craig Hearts Wake, Maria Ford, Bak, and "e Paper . With a 150-piece orchestra, four brass mixed and mastered an album for alternative Kites. Haunting August also rocked up with bands and a choir of over 300 voices, the epic country band, "e Stillsons, and Alex Hallahan mixes cra#ed by Magoo. Subwoofer cones were two-hour symphony was %nally performed at has been mixing his next album. Van Walker $exed courtesy of Phaze One, "e , "e QPAC Brisbane last December. "e doco features is building a compilation of his early albums, Herd, Fluent Form, Chico Johnson, and Jools. part of the performance plus details of the alleged and tracked a new tune. Indie pop greats, "e Mikey Young was also at Crystal, mastering a ‘curse of "e Gothic’ – intriguing. Michael’s also Crayon Fields, laid down some rhythm tracks for compilation and some rare gems from Eddy added a couple of sheep paddocks to his farm an album, and "e Killjoys have been recording Current Suppression Ring. Russel Clarke was in (baaah). their next album involving all the members of the with an album engineered by Mark Ludwig. band from throughout its 23-year history. Audrey In Sydney, Omegaman is kicking arse with Down at the beach in Altona, Coloursound also pounced upon some new preamps – the his new 12-inch, Skankin’ Riddim plus remixes Recording Studio played host to Ballarat’s own AMS Neve 4081 Quad – which is doing amazing for Washington DC act, Empresarios, on Fort Tessa and the Typecast, who have been busy things for the vintage ribbon mics on the ‘LOZ’ Knox Recordings – check Soundcloud for the setting. lowdown.

Opened in #$$%, Rancom St Studios in During mixing, the "'-track is switched Botany, NSW was the result of a long back on with ProTools chasing for the search by owner/producer Garth Porter best of both old and new. and engineer Ted Howard to create a ‘Straight to ’Tools’ is also a viable option studio space with big open rooms, easy with the variety of A/D convertors on access and ample parking and no aircraft offer, including conversion units from noise! The added bonus was a stable for Prism, Apogee, Digidesign and RME. Garth’s unrivaled collection of vintage guitar amps and assorted vintage studio Garth is an unashamed gearaholic, and equipment. the gear listing reflects his fine taste in vintage equipment. A quick look around Rancom St. features a large control room the control room reveals preamps such with plenty of natural light. The main as the revered TAB V-series units (V(", recording space offers incredibly high V(&, V"(& – #( of them in all), along ceilings and three isolation rooms – ideal with all the usual compression suspects for entire album projects – from tracking – originals of course. Plus there’s ample through to mixing and mastering. vintage Neumann and AKG microphone A unique aspect of Rancom St is action, with everything meeting at the the ability to combine analogue and MCI JH &)) ')-channel console. digital. The MCI JH#& "'-track can be Rancom St Studios: ()") $&$! #)!$ phase-locked to ProTools. Tracks can be or www.rancomstudios.com recorded on two-inch tape then dumped RANCOM ST STUDIOS in sync to ProTools for overdubs.

AT !" Over at Spacejunk, the timEbandit tracked the and Stone%eld, along with remixes for Lady screamfest. DOMC has also been doing swags debut album for A Winters Wish – ambient Gaga, Kylie, Darren Hayes, Faker, Owl Eyes, of tape-to-digital transfers. !anks aplenty goes post rock with acoustics guitars through Leslie and Havana Brown. Recording and mixing was to Izotope RX2 Advanced. DOMC has also cabinets with echos into echos into echos into... completed for Taio Cruz, TV Rock, Mr Barry been auditioning a prototype from JLM Audio: you get the picture. Mr Bandit also mixed the Morgan, Taikoz, Cameras, Delta Riggs, Catcall an analogue MS decoder featuring some he"y second single and EP for Sydney electro-pop & !e Jezabels, Brian McFadden, as well as Tim transformers. kids, !e Khans, and completed a nine-day Carr mixing !e Herd and Jonathan Boulet, with Song Doctor Productions recently held a grand album recording block for Brisbane’s Montpelier. Michael Morgan mixing Cameras and U.K. act, opening weekend at its D4Studio – a big success Tricks discovered included: recording the Mojave Kids in Glass Houses. apparently, with live performances, beers and a M200 through an Empirical Labs Fatso Jr with Blair Joscelyn of Nylon Studios confessed to barbeque. Queenslanders and their inclement every button engaged and every LED active – on sneaking out of bed at 4.30 a.m. to secure the weather, eh! Proprietor, Matt Dever has started everything; a Chinese Bardl PZM boundary mic winning bid on a 1978 Korg VC-10 vocoder – a a project with an organisation called Mununjali on the top skin of the snare drum; while room gorgeous and frightfully rare specimen that House, providing support for aboriginal youth sound of the year goes to a pair of Audix OM7 will co-habit snugly alongside his Korg MS-20. in the district. Song Doctor Productions is dynamics placed in the corners of the room Speaking of snug co-habitation, Blair tells us he recording traditional aboriginal chants complete with the rear ends on-axis with the snare drum. was ambushed by his wide-awake signi%cant with didge, clapsticks, and all sorts of other !ese were fed le" and right into the Fatso in other upon his return to the sack, enquiring traditional percussion. Matt’s also been on the ‘Everything Mode’, via the To" channel EQ. Mr as to his excitement and why he’d been on the road doing FOH for Beyond !e Darkside, the Bandit’s been using it on… well, everything. computer. Blair shrugged o$ the inquisition with Pink Floyd tribute show touring with 80,000 Rumor of the month: an MCI JH24 two-inch a nonchalant, “oh just buying a keyboard on Watts of 5.1 surround. In between shows, Matt’s machine might soon be #oating around with the eBay.” Mrs Joscelyn wasn’t too pleased to hear assisted with transforming an old house into other spacejunk. his winning bid was in the $900 range – he’s not a community radio station, complete with a King Willie, a.k.a. Commander Stryker, a.k.a. confessed to her quite yet that this %gure was in powerful little recording studio. !e gang moved Will Bowden, of King Willie Sound, has tamed Euros! the local community radio station, Beau FM, albums from , Graeme Connors (mixed into the building without skipping any airtime. Damien Gerards has welcomed Noiseworks by Matt Fell), Ellesquire, Ru C.L, Kirsty Aikers Claiming he has spare time, Matt has started two into the DG den, John Kennedy has started his (mixed by Paul Greene and Matt Fell)), Made in Pultec kits from Drip Electronics – hit him up for ‘Sun Studios Sessions’ covers project, and Lucy Japan (mixed by Woody Annison), D.I.G, Caitlin an appraisal via the AT forum! De Soto of Pete Wells (RIP) Band fame will be Park, James Valentine Quartet, Fuego Lento bringing her band in to track with Sir Russell Finally, #itting over to , Sascha (mixed by Bob Scott), Lucie !orne, Dragon, Pilling. Recent session highlights include !e Budimski has had a busy few months. Sascha (vinyl and remixes), !e Grand Lethals recording another single, and has created scores for a variety of theatre works Lurkers, Wade Jackson, City Riots, Scarlett northern beaches electronica/alternative band, including !ree Men in a Tub by Jason Cross A$ection, !e Dirty 30 (various lunatics), Dom Kinetic Luke, completing their debut EP with (which has just returned from a tour of South Gannon, and Murder of Crow. !ere were also Russell. Korea), MineEnemyMine by Brisbane based singles and EPs cut for Charlie Mayfair, Betty choreographer Zaimon Vilmanis, Involuntary by Airs, Ranger Spacey, Dana Hassal, Bastian’s Moving way up the coast to Queensland, where Katrina Lazaro$ at the Adelaide Festival Centre, Happy Flight, Newman Duo, Sista Burly, and the locals are beginning to whine about the and updated and remixed his original score for Horrorshow. !e mastering maestro claims supposedly inclement weather, it’s been a busy Alice Holland’s work, Phoenix, for Steps Youth there’s others he’s forgotten! !e man is a couple of months for DOMC Mastering. !e Dance Company in . Sascha managed to machine. past two months has seen Sam Grace from the %t in a week of lecturing at University of South Optimen with a %ve-track EP, the DieVsCity Sydney’s Studios 301 has been mastering !e ’s Magill campus, teaching students crew with their latest hip hop EP, and Heliport Living End, , Wim, Art Vs Science, how to get funky and experimental with Studios has started to bring in some amazing Short Stack, Sneaky Sound System, Powder%nger, audio so"ware and a MIDI keyboard. Recent tracks from James, the Heliport engineer. Trio, Fourplay, , acquisitions include a BeesNeez Arabella GT mic, have returned to the facility for Tex Perkins’ ‘Band of Gold’, Deep Sea Arcade, a Grace m101 preamp and Native Instruments’ %nal touches on their next album, and Metal , Brian McFadden, Birds of Tokyo, Komplete 7. Wrath have come in with tracks from their next

Pony Music is a busy place. The studio !& electric guitars, "&-odd acoustic has actually acquired more equipment guitars, (& basses, *& instrument than it has space for, so a new outboard amplifiers and over $&& guitar pedals – rack system has recently been installed. more than enough toys to create music in Some of the items going into the the $& x # x !.!m recording space. ‘enhanced rack’ include a second ELI Proprietor, Damien Young has recently Distressor, a Vintech X#$ mic pre/EQ, finished tracking an album for Mr. Holy an Orban Optimod, Lexicon PCM%&, Grail himself, Mark Seymour, with some Yamaha SPX'&, Rev! and SRV(&&&, and great musicians including: Peter ‘Maz’ a soon to be refurbished Byer %% to add Maslen (Boom Crash Opera) on drums, to the Byer )) open-reel tape recorder. Cameron McKenzie (Horsehead) on Pony also recently installed a Neve guitar and John Favaro () !"( summing console with $( stereo on bass. Damien is also often on the channels. Mics-wise there’s an array of road doing live shows and recording Leo Neumann ‘U’ series delicacies, along with Sayer – primarily using Avid/Digidesign some tasty contemporary mics from the consoles and multitracking every show likes of Mojave Audio and AEA. he can. Recording at Pony Music also gives you Pony Music: &"$( *!" (!" or access to all instruments the facility [email protected] keeps on hand. In addition to the studio smorgasbord, there’s over $( drum kits, PONY MUSIC

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