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Captain's Log
Hi, welcome to the website of my studio. I had this page made so that I can talk to you about the studio and my philosophies about music, production, recording studio atmosphere, producer/band communication, and more. If you have any questions after reading anything here, please feel free to email me at producer@slatestudios.com
Let me first tell you a little about myself. I started playing guitar when I was about ten years old. Music quickly became my passion and I soon learned to play many more instruments such as bass and drums, and even started singing. In my junior year of high school, I came to the realization that unless my high school rock band wanted to ONLY play high school events, we needed a demo.
My first home studio consisted of a Yamaha 4 track cassette studio. I read some books about recording and then made our first demo with the 4 track. Man did it suck. I mean it really sucked. I couldn't understand why I wasn't able to make things sound like some of the great albums that were out at the time, like Nirvana Nevermind and Sound Garden Superunknown. I became frustrated and began to take night classes at a local studio where I was taught the fundamentals of analog recording. I learned a lot from watching some of the experienced engineers work their magic on tape.
Learning the basics of recording at the night program, I started interning at various recording studios in NJ. By actually working with experienced engineers in real sessions, I learned the real details of production and recording. I eventually became a hired engineer at a few of those studios. In college I started to build my own personal studio. The first thing I learned as I researched the different studio gear that was available, was that in order to achieve the ultra precise sounds that I had in my head, I needed to get the absolute best gear available. I taught myself about new digital studio gear and I learned how I could integrate the best digital components with old school analog components. This allowed me to use the ultra slick features of a digital workstation with the fat and warm sounds of an analog console with its great sounding equalizers. Once my studio was built, I obsessively recorded different projects while listening to some of the best sounding commercial releases. It was my mission to make releases that would sound as good or better then what was playing on the radio. This was no easy task. There are some extremely talented people behind some of today's releases, many of whom I have studied for years such as Andy Wallace, Terry Date, Jay Baumgardner, Tom and Chris Lorde Alge, and Jack Joseph Puig to name a few. I would sit there in my studio and listen to the mixes of these gentlemen, and I would isolate different components of their mixes with my ears. For instance, I would train myself to only hear the vocal delay in a mix, or identify what frequency the kick drum and bass were in so that they could work together in the low end. Six years later, I opened up Bang Recording in Boston, Mass. I have gathered some of the greatest sounding studio gear available and I can finally get the high precision of sound quality that I have sought after. I worked with many great bands, some big, some small, all the while perfecting my craft and finally beginning to achieve the big sounds I heard playing in my head. After two successful years, I decided to build a brand new state of the art facility in Los Angeles. 
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