Joel Streeter, Michael Roamowski & Jerry Becker

Joel Streeter solo album release, produced by Jerry Becker, mastered in San Francisco

San Francisco, CA - March 4, 2010 - Mastering Engineer Michael Romanowski recently completed mastering the Joel Streeter solo release “Matador” at his 1340 Mission studios mastering suite. Jerry Becker who also produced Streeter’s first album “Hear Me Out” produced the “Matador” album. Producer Becker is currently touring with Train as a multi-instrumentalist. The “Matador” album was recorded over the course of 2 years in the San Francisco Bay Area at Hyde Street Studios, Tiny Telephone Studios, and Becker’s studio in Oakland, California. Mastering engineer Michael Romanowski used a combination of his analog and digital mastering gear including the ATR 102 1-inch, 2-track tape deck, Pacific Microsonics Model II A-to-D converters, and Focal Grande Utopia EM monitors to prepare the album for release. more

HOPEWELL JUNCTION, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 2010: Veteran smooth jazz and new age music keyboardist, producer and arranger Philippe Saisse earned a Grammy nomination this year in the field of Best Contemporary Jazz Album for his At World’s Edge (Koch Records). Over his thirty-year career, Saisse has alternated roles, sometimes standing in the spotlight, sometimes standing at a keyboard just outside the spotlight, and sometimes helping to operate the gears and pulleys behind the scenes. With one foot always firmly rooted in contemporary jazz, Saisse has spread his talents across genres, working with David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, and legendary producer Phil Ramone, among many, many others. Like everything he has worked on in the last six years, Saisse relied on his Metric Halo 2882 Mobile I/O for all of the pre-production on At World’s Edge. more

Pictured at Ardent Studios in Memphis are (L-R) Ralph Arista, band assistant; Bill Gibson, drummer; Johnny Colla, guitarist/saxophonist; Jim Gaines, engineer/co-producer; Lydia Gilman, staff assistant (seated); Huey Lewis; Curry Weber, assistant engineer; and Sean Hopper, keyboardist.

Jim Gaines Records Stax/Soul Tribute Album

Huey Lewis and the News have returned to Memphis’s renowned Ardent Studios to record their first studio album in nine years, a Stax Records and Memphis Soul tribute collection. In the early days of the Stax Records success story, when the work overwhelmed their in-house studios, Ardent was often called upon to provide room for numerous overflow sessions. Lewis remarked, “We’re trying to do it right, and I think if you’re working at Ardent you’re a little more careful.” more

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 2010: For anyone who has ever gone clubbing till dawn in this brave new century, superstar female vocalist JES is undoubtedly the voice of some fantastic memories. Steeped in the world of electronica and rocktronica, JES exploded onto the dance music scene in 2003 as the singer of Motorcycle’s “As the Rush Comes,” which held the number one position on Billboard’s “Hot Dance Airplay” chart and was the most-played dance song of that year. It was the fourth most-played dance song of the decade, according to Billboard’s recently released “Decade End Chart,” which also reports her solo release “Imagination” at #46 for the decade. more

Producer/Engineer Jack Joseph Puig at the Helm

Pictured in Ocean Way’s renowned Studio B are Semi Precious Weapons: (L-R) Stevy Pyne, guitar and backing vocals; Dan Crean, drums; Justin Tranter, vocals; Cole Whittle, bass; Jack Joseph Puig, producer/engineer. Photo by David Goggin.

Semi Precious Weapons have recorded their new self-titled EP at Ocean Way Recording with producer/engineer Jack Joseph Puig. The EP was released January 19th on iTunes, including the first three songs from their highly anticipated Interscope debut “You Love You” album, out this Spring. more

Pictured (L-R) at Bernie Grundman Mastering are co-producer Steve Kaplan, mastering engineer Patricia Sullivan FourStar, and composer Bear McCreary. Photo by David Goggin.

Patricia Sullivan FourStar Engineers in Newly Remodeled Studio

Popular scoring composer Bear McCreary has mastered the new soundtrack album for the videogame “Dark Void” at Bernie Grundman Mastering with engineer Patricia Sullivan Fourstar and music co-producer Steve Kaplan. The composer explores new musical soundscapes with his score for the project developed by Airtight Games. more

Morgan Page with Dangerous D-Box

With multiple Billboard Chart hits, Morgan Page tunes up his studio with Dangerous D-Box

Edmeston, NY - January 12, 2010 - Morgan Page is a Billboard dance chart-topping remixer and producer who works in his own computer-based studio full of software plug-ins, hi-end audio hardware and most recently the award-winning Dangerous Music D-Box. Page’s remix of Jody Watley’s “I Want Your Love,” was his third #1 Billboard hit following his remixes of “Angelicus” by Delerium and Nelly Furtado’s “Maneater,” and with La Roux “Bulletproof” he achieved 6 Number One Billboard hits. In 2009, “The Longest Road,” (Deadmau5 Remix) was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Remix category, and he launched his latest single “Fight For You” which has steadily climbed the Billboard Club Play charts to #4. In February 2010, Morgan Page will release “Believe,” an album that makes good on his International Dance Music Awards nomination as Best Breakthrough Artist, and typifies his journey from bootleg remixer to award-winning producer and DJ. more

“The E.N.D.” Nominated For Album of the Year

Pictured (L-R) during mastering sessions at Bernie Grundman Mastering are Dante Santiago, A&R creative executive producer; will.i.am, artist/executive producer; Dylan “3D” Dresdow, mixer; Padraic “Padlock” Kerin, recording engineer; Chris Bellman, mastering engineer. Photo by David Goggin.

Renowned rapper/producer will.i.am booked Bernie Grundman Mastering for sessions with mastering engineer Chris Bellman for the Black Eyed Peas album from Interscope, The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies), which has been nominated for the Album of the Year by The Recording Academy.

Full credits from the Recording Academy are as follows:

“The E.N.D.” The Black Eyed Peas. Apl.de.ap, Jean Baptiste, Printz Board, DJ Replay, Funkagenda, David Guetta, Keith Harris, Mark Knight, Poet Name Life, Frederick Riesterer & will.i.am, producers; Dylan “3D” Dresdow, Padraic “Padlock” Kerin & will.i.am, engineers/mixers; Chris Bellman, mastering engineer. Interscope more

James Cameron Epic Adventure Scored by James Horner

Pictured at the SSL console in Record One’s Studio A is scoring mixer Simon Rhodes and (L-R rear) assistant engineer Patrick Spain and digital recordist Kevin Globerman. Photo by David Goggin.

The James Horner score for the epic adventure AVATAR was mixed by Simon Rhodes at Ocean Way’s film mixing studio Record One in Sherman Oaks. After five years of lock out by producer Dr. Dre, the newly reopened Record One features a half-million dollar remodel and in Studio A, the largest and most sophisticated SSL film console ever built.

Written and directed by James Cameron, and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Michelle Rodriguez, and Signoury Weaver, AVATAR takes us to a spectacular world beyond imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on an epic adventure, ultimately fighting to save more

LOS ANGELES — Three-time Grammy Award-winning group The Black Eyed Peas recently made history by holding the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a staggering 26 consecutive weeks – half a year – a feat that not even The Beatles, The Rolling Stones or Michael Jackson were able to accomplish. The two songs responsible for the reign — “Boom Boom Pow” followed by “I Gotta Feeling” — both came from BEP’s new record, The END (Energy Never Dies), which was tracked by Padraic “Padlock” Kerin and tracked/mixed by Dylan “3-D” Dresdow.

Dresdow, who owns Paper V.U. Studios in North Hollywood and has worked with the group on four albums now, is quick to bring up that he is an avid fan of A-Designs Audio. Among his collection are the Pacifica, P1, REDDI, HM2EQ HAMMER, MP-2 and several EM Series, more