murder murder @ 6 Nassau

Recording some country, bluegrass and a whole lot of killing songs with murder murder at 6 Nassau. 

On Location - Sulfur City at the Markstay Arena

Sulfur City in the events room of the old Markstay Arena.

Tracking live off the floor. The only overdubs were some backing vocals and a few guitar solos.

The mobile studio, loaded and ready to roll.

The "control room".

Going Mobile

Testing out the mobile rig for an upcoming session in a hockey arena.

Wall of (mostly) Canadian Amps

A Kent, a Traynor Custom Reverb, and a Granada branded Garnet with a Fender thrown in for good measure.

Matthew Beech @ 6 Nassau.

Mixing, Mixing, Mixing, Recording, Mixing, Mixing

Coming to the end of a non-stop three week run mixing records for The Hoop, Sean Barrette, Night Terrors, and Cindy O'Neil. There was even a little tracking thrown in to balance everything out. Looking forward to a silent week-end.

9' Petrof Grand Arrives at 6 Nassau

Strings!

Spent the morning and afternoon tracking strings for Brian Dunn's record of Ryan Lavesque songs. It was way too much awesome packed into such a short time. JJ Ipsen wrote some beautiful charts (and took the picture) and Alex McMaster and Amanda Penner played them perfectly.
Six songs tracked in four hours, capped off with a celebratory pint at Grossman's. It's all a bit of a blur and my brain is fried but we're in the home stretch on this record and it sounds fantastic.

Soundtracking @ 6 Nassau

Here we are working on a soundtrack at 6 Nassau. Paul Aucoin composed, produced and played marimba, vibraphone and Hammond organ.

Chris Tait @ 6 Nassau

Day one in the studio with Chris Tait and Dee & Vince from The Benvereens. Six songs down, three to go.

Mixing Carpet Of Horses 3rd Record

Carpet of Horses - Tobin James Stewart & friends.

Mixed @ 6 Nassau and The Junkshop.

Wrapping up mix work on the third Carpet Of Horses record. Recorded by Carpet Of Horses main man Tobin James Stewart in Berlin, Toronto, Israel and a seemingly endless list other locations.
This is the third Carpet Of Horses record that I've mixed and it might just be the best one yet (if I do say so myself). Epic song, epic sounds.

Click on the Listen page or http://carpetofhorses.bandcamp.com/ to hear some clips.

! by Matt Foy

Matt's new record ! is out now. It was written and recorded at 6 Nassau over labour day week-end (in between fighter jet flyovers from the air show). Click here to buy it. Go to the Listen page to hear some of the tunes.

Michael Tobin @ 6 Nassau

Just wrapped work on a 5 song EP for Michael Tobin and his trio. Piano, upright bass, drums and vocals recorded live off the floor. Sounds beautiful. Go to the Listen page to hear a few songs.

There's a piano under there somewhere.

Michael Tobin on piano and vocals. Dan Fortin (somewhere in the back there) on upright bass.

Christopher Ryan on drums.

Dan Fortin on upright bass (and photography, I lifted this photo from Dan's  website)

The Copicat Method. Brian Sings Ryan

Just started production on the latest record by Brian Dunn. It's a collection of covers of songs by Ryan Levesque (aka Ryan Bishops, aka Bandit) tentatively called The Copicat Method. Bed tracks were recorded at Cosmic Dave's Sound Emporium and overdubs started last week-end at 6 Nassau.

Matt Foy @ 6 Nassau

For my first session at 6 Nassau I managed to coax Matt Foy to come south for two days in early September. In between air show fighter jet fly-bys we recorded a 10 song Link Wray/Ventures style garage rock record that Matt has titled !.
This is our third record together and might just be the best of the bunch (if I do say so myself).
! has just been mastered and will be available shortly through Bandcamp, CD Baby and iTunes. Our early sonic adventures can be found HERE.

Max Marshall @ 6 Nassau

Recording finger-style guitar songs for a 7" with Max Marshall.

Soundtracking - Percussion Session at Candle Recording

 

  

Here we are at Candle Recording tracking a five octave marimba, steel pan, timpani, vibraphone, bells, parade drums and just about every percussion toy known to man for the soundtrack to the documentary Lunarcy. Christopher Sandes wrote the music, arranged, scored and produced.

Moving to 6 Nassau

Big news!
As of September 1st I will be moving my studio work to 6 Nassau in Kensington Market. 

James Anderson has some projects that will be taking him away from the studio and I'll be subletting his part of the lease while he's gone. If all goes well I'll be there for the next year or more.

I'll still be doing some post production and mixing work out of the Junkshop and freelancing elsewhere but for the most part I'll be moving my work to Nassau.

If you've had the chance to record at 6 Nassau you'll already know what a special place it is and understand how excited I am to be making records there. If you've never been there before feel free to get in touch and drop by for a tour.

I'm currently booking September and beyond and just generally trying to get the word out. Get in touch if you have any upcoming projects that might need a studio and please, please, please pass this along to anyone else you know who might be interested.

I can be reached at junkshop-dot-dave-at-gmail-dot-com.

Thanks!

New Music

It's spring which means all the records I worked on over the last year are starting to appear. New songs from Brian Dunn, Pistol George Warren, The Raccoon Wedding. myself & Matt Foy have been added to the playlist on the Listen page.

Brian Dunn - Filmed/Recorded Live At Cosmic Dave's Sound Emporium

Here are a few of the final videos from Brian Dunn's live recording/video shoot.
Film by John Milne. Audio recording and mixing by me. Photos from the session are farther down.

Soundtracking - April 2012

Working on a soundtrack recording with Paul Aucoin at the Junkshop. Paul plays the Sirius XM Radio Indie Awards Emerging Artist prize guitar awarded to his brother Rich.