Hey everybody!  Hope everyone is getting ready to have a great Winter holiday with lots of family, friends, and food!  I added a couple videos for you to check out some of the rehearsal at the Musician’s Union.  Just a few small clips so that you can get an idea of the music and the scope of the project!  Still more on its way!  Don’t touch that dial!

Your Livable Garden

Your Livable Garden is a radio show that I produce every week for broadcast every Saturday on KSEV700 AM.  At 15+ years, it is the longest-running landscape architectural show in the nation.  Every week, the hosts, Shawn and Blinda Kelly come to the studio with a bottle of wine and 2 hours of the most interesting gardening/landscaping/pool stories, tips and jokes.  It’s a very amusing show and I recommend you checking it out if you get the chance.  It airs Saturday mornings from 6:00 am – 8:00 am.

To record the show, I use a Shure SM7B on Shawn and an EV RE-20 on Blinda.  The mics are patched to a pair of AMEK PurePath Channel Strips, with filters and dynamics applied.  The calls are recorded with a Comrex DH20 patch, I make my little comments with a SM57 (going through an Audient  mic pre) and everything is mixed live on a Mackie HUI in Pro Tools.

It’s a lot of fun and we are glad to have Shawn and Blinda working here at Tierra Studios!

Welcome to the beginning of Tierra Studios’ adventure into extreme recording.  We have recently begun a project involving Bernie Hatch, Dennis Dodson, and Dr. Robert Linder – just to name a VERY small few.  We began rehearsal for the first segment of recording on November 4th at the AFM union hall.  The orchestra is rehearsing 2 original jazz pieces written by Bernie Hatch.  Much, much more to come about this project! Stay Tuned!

The CD release party for Thomas Hultén’s album Slide Side was an amazing success. Many people came together at Tierra Studios from 6:00 pm until almost 10:00 pm on Monday, October 19th. There was music, mingling, food, and a few drinks floating around, as we celebrated the second release in Tierra Studios’ jazz series. We would like to extend a very special thanks to Kathryn Sherman, Jim Sherman, Traey Hatch, Glenn Wheeler, Dr. Robert Linder, Thomas Hultén, Dan Kramlich, Lana Smith, Andrea Sedeno, all the FMI staff, and everyone else that was involved in this project from start to finish. We couldn’t have done it without each and everyone of you!!!!

Just checkin in, internet world!!! I’m here in the studio today doing voice-over sessions. These are always fun because you get to hear people do the voices that you hear on TV. Not sure what spots we are doing yet, but these sessions are always pretty fun and interesting. Hope everyone else out there is enjoying what is probably the most beautiful day of 2009.