Small Batch Recording

07/12/2025

09/29/2024

Pre-ordered this bad boy a few weeks ago. Dachman Audio's reproduction of a vintage Fet47.

05/09/2024

RIP Steve albini

Legendary recording engineer and musician Steve Albini has died of a heart attack. Pitchfork confirmed the news with staff at Albini’s recording studio Electronic Audio. He was 61.

12/31/2023

F**k yeah, had a blast at black Christmas and hang with friends out in the wild

12/30/2023

Haven't updated this page in a while. These are some of the newest additions to the studio.

09/16/2021

Great article on the legendary Lee Perry's recording techniques

We're talking about the lasting legacy of producer, mixer and dub legend Lee Perry and some of the more unique stories to come out of his studio.

02/13/2021

A legend is gone. Its up to us now.

It is with great sadness that we announce that Rupert Neve has died.

While Rupert’s passions for music, creativity, and insistence on exceptional quality have made an indelible mark on the fabric of the recording industry, his kindness and generosity made him a legend to us all. Through his designs and through the music created with them, his spirit will live on eternally. God bless you, Rupert.

A full company statement can be found here:
https://www.rupertneve.com/news/rupert-neve-1926-2021

12/07/2020

Needs them claps lol

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05/07/2020

8 neve mic pres for less than 10 grand. You so*******ch im in 🤪

Watch an interview with AMS Neve Product Special Joe Heaton about the new 1073OPX.

01/28/2020

A good song doesnt need a $3k can of turd polish 😀

Trolls would lose their s**t over this picture. I love it.

That's Finneas O'Connell, Billie Eilish's brother in his bedroom studio.

I can hear the trolls frantically typing, foaming at the mouth:

-"But! THE MONITOR PLACEMENT! Arrghghghgh!"

-"No acoustic treatment in the EARLY REFLECTION zones?!!?" (proceeds to hyperventilate into his Kiss lunchbox)

-"He's using Logic?!? Don't you know you need PROTOOL!"

So on and so forth ad nauseam.

Having vicariously gone to law school, I love that I can now use their case as precedent.

Dear people of the jury: let it be known that Billie and Finneas are unequivocal proof that you can make great records in your bedroom.

As a home studio musician, this should be encouraging to you. It's not about the expensive gear. It's about the music you make with the gear you already have.

It's simple to make a song sound good if the song is good. As long as you get a decent sound and a killer performance, mixing is easy.

People will say, "but it was mixed by a PROFESSIONAL engineer!" which is somehow supposed to paint Finneas as the opposite, ignoring the fact that he now has Grammys for both Engineer and Producer of the Year. That feels like a pretty professional accomplishment to me.

Even if When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? was mixed by an established mixing engineer, it doesn't change the fact that Rob Kinelski received some spectacular ingredients to mix.

Or put more bluntly, and I quote myself:

"Mixing isn't worth s**t if the song and arrangement isn't stellar"

Keep in mind that this is coming from someone who wrote a best-selling book about mixing (www.stepbystepmixing.com). None of my tips will help you if the songwriting, arranging, and engineering are bad.

It's a pleasure to mix a great song with a good arrangement. It's an absolute nightmare to do the opposite.