We also have analog gear, which most of your friends do not. Joe Varchola has a year and a half of experience doing sound for WIDR FM, and is pursuing a certificate in the recording arts from WMU. Eli Kroes worked for a year as WIDR's soundman, has a certificate in recording arts, and is a longtime home recordist. Both of us have an experimental bent in our recording techniques, and would be happy
to try any crazy idea you've got. We charge $15/hr to record your band on any of the following formats:
1/4" reel tape (we have 8 tracks available)
4-track cassette (nice ones, too, not the sh*tty ones Tascam makes nowadays)
good ol' digital (unlimited tracks, we use Cakewalk and Adobe Audition)
There is an extra charge of $27 per reel of tape used. This is how much we pay for it, so we're not getting extra money off you. Each reel can hold roughly 20 minutes of music. Along with this, we can mix and master your stuff, too, if you don't wanna pay a whole bunch to send it off somewhere! Check the bandcamp page below if you want to hear samples of our work. Lastly, if you are a Kalamazoo rapper looking for some different-sounding beats, Eli is an amateur rap producer as well. You can hear sample beats on the bandcamp page. Here are some recordings we appreciate from an engineer's standpoint, to give you an idea of what we're going for:
Eli:
All early Sebadoh and Ween, 4-track stuff that sounds good. Deftones' 'White Pony' and 'Around the Fur' albums. Beach Boys 'Smile'-era recordings. My Bloody Valentine's 'Loveless.' It's a work of art. All of Billy Anderson's work (Sleep's 'Holy Mountain,' Eyehategod, Melvins)
Joe:
Minutemen -- Double Nickels on the Dime
Thinking Fellers Union -- Strangers from the Universe
Sun City Girls usually have an interesting thing going on with their stuff
modest mouse circa 1996-2001
the murkiness of some of the live sunburned hand of the man albums
