On our next Console Live Chat Live Stream we are actually going to do some recording!
If you’ve joined us for one of our Console Side Chat Live Streams then you know we cover a LOT of topics. The best part being that we get to hang out with all of you!
Since our topic of conversation always centers around recording music we decided to have a little fun and record a little ditty live during the stream! The setup will be drums (2 mics only!), bass, electric guitar and acoustic guitar.
But……
We need your help in selecting the mics we’re going to use for the recording. We’ve created a simple poll with a set of mics for each instrument and we need to you vote. Sunday before the live stream we’ll tally the votes, setup up the session and go live!
The pandemic has pushed us to find new ways to demonstrate gear. While Ultimate Studios, Inc is an official showroom for Roswell Pro Audio the pandemic has made it harder to do in-studio microphone demos.
Harnessing our live-streaming capabilities we helped Roswell Pro Audio develop a Virtual Showroom live stream that allows us to demonstrate how their microphones sound on a variety of sources. In real-time to engineers and producers anywhere in the world!
Iron Point recording EP1-3
To date we have some 4 episodes. In the first 3 episode, featuring LA Rock band Iron Point, we recorded a full song using just 3 Roswell mics and 1 from MicrParts (Matt McGlynn’s other mic business). The Mini K87, Mini K47, Mini K47 KD and the MicParts SDC84. We tracked acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals, bass, drums and percussion. All live!
Gabby Gordon recording EP4
Episode 4 featured singer-songwriter Gabby Gordon on Piano and Vocals. We used 2 other Roswell mics for this Virtual Showroom live stream. The Colares and Delphos.
These Virtual Showrooms not only allow us to demonstrate the microphones in real-time all over the world but we can interact with viewers and answer questions. It’s a virtual studio hang!
Ultimate Studios, Inc is a full service recording studio, mixing studio and band development resource located in Los Angeles, CA.Panorama City, CA 91402 www.UltimateStudiosInc.com We believe EVERYONE deserves great sounding music!
Our second Piano Bar Live Stream Concert features Steve Maggiora! Steve has performed and recorded with some of the best artists in the music business and is the newest member of the legendary band TOTO!
We are excited for this intimate show featuring an amazing artist, beautiful acoustic piano and fantastic music!
Please help support the artists! Every little bit is greatly appreciated! Thank you! Venmo – @stevethewreck / @smmusic Paypal – @stevethewreck / www.paypal.me/stevethewreck Cashapp – $stevethewreck
Stream Times: 7pm PDT (Los Angeles) 9pm – Kansas City 10pm – New York 12am – Buenos Aires 3am – London 4am – Germany 5am – Israel 6am – Moscow 11am – Taipei, Taiwan 2pm – Sydney, Australia
More About Steve: Website: www.stevemaggiora.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/stevemaggioramusic Instagram: www.instagram.com/stevethewreck @stevethewreck Patreon: www.patreon.com/stevethewreck
Steve Maggiora Bio: Based out of Orange County, CA, Steve Maggiora is a multi-talented musician, songwriter and entertainer. Making his living both as a session musician and live musician, Steve is deeply passionate in the music he creates, which is made apparent through his sultry smokey voice and rich keyboard voicing. He can be heard on thousands of recordings, including songs with Marc Broussard, Daniel Powter, Natalie Imbruglia, Joshua Radin and more. He has performed to tens of thousands of concert-goers across the USA, UK, EU, Australia and Japan. In addition to the original music he writes and performs, Steve is a founding member of the ever-touring rock & roll outfit Robert Jon & The Wreck, and most recently the new keyboardist and backing vocalist for the legendary TOTO. He is constantly creating new music in many different genres, much of which is available on streaming platforms as well as on his Patreon page, where he releases new music every Tuesday and Thursday.
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Ultimate Studios, Inc is a full service recording studio, mixing studio and band development resource located in Los Angeles, CA.Panorama City, CA 91402 www.UltimateStudiosInc.com We believe EVERYONE deserves great sounding music!
2020 may have shuttered in-person festivals but we had the pleaser of hosting a Live Streaming Concert for the The John Coltrane Jazz & Blues Festival featuring the Lao Tizer Band. The Coltrane Jazz & Blues festival does an amazing job of showcasing amazing artists and supporting young and upcoming artists. If you can please donate to The Coltrane Jazz & Blues Festival to help them keep supplying new instruments to deserving young students.
We had a fantastic show and the Lao Tizer band was on fire!!!
Live Stream Your Concert, Release Party or Event at Ultimate Studios, Inc!
We have a multi-cam HD live streaming rig with recording studio quality audio. If you’re interested in live streaming your performance, festival or release party contact us for details!
About Ultimate Studios, Inc
Ultimate Studios, Inc is a full service recording studio, mixing studio, mastering studio, live streaming studio and band development resource located in Los Angeles, Van Nuys, North Hollywood, Panorama City, CA 91402 https://www.ultimatestudiosinc.com
We believe EVERYONE deserves great sounding music! Ultimate Studios, Inc is a boutique production facility for artists and bands to collaborate, create, and record.
Led by Producer/Engineer Charlie Waymire, our team assists artists through the entire creative process including recording, mixing, mastering, and video production.
Our ultimate goal is to help bands and artists build a strong brand for a lasting career!
Contact us for more information about how we can help you achieve your musical goals!
We are back with a new, Piano Bar, Live Stream Concert Series at Ultimate Studios, Inc.! We are excited for this intimate show featuring an amazing artist, beautiful acoustic piano and fantastic music!
Our first artist is the uber talented Gabby Gordon! She will be performing 2 sets. Set one at 12pm and set two at 7pm.
Gabby Gordon is a danish/american soulful singer-songwriter. In her early years she was born and raised in a tiny town called “Ugelbølle†in Denmark. But since she was 8 years old she has lived in six different countries, and spent the last 15 years in the USA. where she came to study music and follow her dreams of being an artist.
Gabby regularly performs at live music venues and clubs in West Hollywood, writes and releases her own music and works as a studio/ session singer for many types of projects.
Her unique background and many different impressions of life influenced both her musical development and personality. Gabby sings her stories from her heart and soul, and travels all around her creative and emotional spectrum. Her voice is powerful and dynamic, often compared to Adele, Amy Winehouse, or Norah Jones.
Her lyrics are personal with a touch of ‘quirky’ and Gabby is know for drawing her audience in with charming life stories – filing the room with her melodic musicality and life loving big personality.
In recent years she has played hundreds of intimate concerts in Denmark, Germany, England, Holland, Sweden, Switzerland and Israel with her soulful pop trio “Ebb & Flowâ€.
Having just completed her very first solo tour around Denmark in the summer of 2020, Gabby is back in Los Angeles getting ready to record new music for her upcoming album.
Ultimate Studios, Inc is a boutique recording studio, mixing studio, live stream studio and band development resource located in Los Angeles, CA.Panorama City, CA 91402
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We believe EVERYONE deserves great sounding music!
Live music is such an integral part of our everyday lives and although 2020 has stripped us of that. Well the crew at Ultimate Studios, Inc is trying to do our part to bring you amazing sounding music from some amazing independent artists.
With most clubs and venues being shut down right now independent artists have largely lost their ability to play their music live in front of an audience. While simple live streaming from phones and simple homes setups is great we are trying to bring recording quality live concerts straight to our home.
Ultimate Studios, Inc has a full HD live streaming rig with a 5 camera switch. The live room is well equipped with instruments (and plenty of space for social distancing!!!) and the audio rolls right off the Trident 88 console and intro the live stream. The audience at home basically you will hear the same thing that we hear in the control room.
We are offering this as a service to any artists that would like to put on a fantastic sounding and looking concert for their fans.
To kick this amazing live streaming service off we are launching a Live Streaming Concert Series. We will feature a diverse group of independent artists that we think are really great!
Our first artist is The Lao Tizer Band. Lao is an amazing and accomplished pianist and his band consists of some of the best players in the business; Ric Fierabracci (bass), Gene Coye (drums), Eric Marienthal (sax) and Tita Hutchison (vocals).
Don’t miss this special live stream concert on August 12, 2020 at 7pm PDT! You can watch the Live Stream here:
Tracking musicians together, live, in the studio is absolutely one of my favorite things in the world. The energy between players is contagious and it’s so rewarding to hear the music come out of the speakers with a finished quality to it (well almost finished anyway!).
We decided to record Argus Roh‘s debut EP live. Except for the vocals we tracked drums, bass and guitars all together and it really came out well.
Alexis and Jason tracking together
I have the studio setup so drums can be in the main room, utilizing all the available space, and guitars can be in 2 separate ISO booths.
This allows the band to play together but still have complete separation between the instruments.
Because of this we were still able to do punches for any instrument if needed (we only did this once actually!).
The band featuring Sam Escobar (vocals), Alexis Argueta (drums), Rob Duarte (guitar, Jason Campos (bass) and Tony Atilano (guitar) did a fantastic job.
Most metal music nowadays is recorded in pieces so the band playing together added another level of excitement.
Ultimate Studios, Inc is a full service recording studio, mixing studio and band development resource located in Los Angeles, Van Nuys, North Hollywood, Panorama City, CA 91402 https://www.ultimatestudiosinc.com
We believe EVERYONE deserves great sounding music! Ultimate Studios, Inc is a boutique production facility for artists and bands to collaborate, create, and record.
Led by Producer/Engineer Charlie Waymire, our team assists artists through the entire creative process including recording, mixing, mastering, and video production.
Our ultimate goal is to help bands and artists build a strong brand for a lasting career!
Contact us for more information about how we can help you achieve your musical goals!
Some sessions are brutal and then some sessions are BRUTAL!
Metal maniacs Bloodfeast ritual entered the studio to start recording their debut EP. Initially we did 6 days of tracking. 4 for drums and 2 for guitars and bass (they were loooong days!).
The drum sessions were really fun. Tom Tierney brought in his monstrous Tama Birch Babinga kit which is a gorgeous kit. We put all new Evans heads on everything before the initial tracking and tuned everything just right.
Our goal was to capture the actual drum sound for the EP live and not rely on samples to define the sound. To do that we spent a decent amount of time tuning and dialing in the tones.
With a kit this size it can be challenging to capture everything evenly so we spent a lot of time going around the kit to make sure everything was represented.
Once that was done it was all about getting Tom a good headphone mix and hitting the record button.
I’ll leave the rest of the details to the video but suffice it to say we had a TON of fun.
Ultimate Studios, Inc is a full service recording studio, mixing studio and band development resource located in Los Angeles, Van Nuys, North Hollywood, Panorama City, CA 91402 https://www.ultimatestudiosinc.com
We believe EVERYONE deserves great sounding music! Ultimate Studios, Inc is a boutique production facility for artists and bands to collaborate, create, and record.
Led by Producer/Engineer Charlie Waymire, our team assists artists through the entire creative process including recording, mixing, mastering, and video production.
Our ultimate goal is to help bands and artists build a strong brand for a lasting career!
Contact us for more information about how we can help you achieve your musical goals!
I get a lot of questions about how I get sound from the console to the computer. And while every console/mixer is a bit different it’s really a pretty simple setup that I’ll explain in this video (with some cool animations too!)
I will also answer a common question I get from some of you about using budget mixers not necessarily meant for recording. Some don’t have the necessary outputs to do a full multi-tracked session so what can you do? We’ll discuss that in this video too!
Studio wiring doesn’t have to be super complicated at first. As you start adding more outboard gear it can get messy but with a basic understanding of what you’re doing and a little planning it’s possible to get a smooth setup that makes all of your sessions run smooth.
Ultimate Studios, Inc is a full service recording studio, mixing studio and band development resource located in Los Angeles, Van Nuys, North Hollywood, Panorama City, CA 91402 https://www.ultimatestudiosinc.com
We believe EVERYONE deserves great sounding music! Ultimate Studios, Inc is a boutique production facility for artists and bands to collaborate, create, and record.
Led by Producer/Engineer Charlie Waymire, our team assists artists through the entire creative process including recording, mixing, mastering, and video production.
Our ultimate goal is to help bands and artists build a strong brand for a lasting career!
Contact us for more information about how we can help you achieve your musical goals!
While minimal miking setups on drums can be very, very effective they can sometimes lack focus or excitement that is needed for modern music production. I want to show you a great way to add some thickness and attitude to any minimally miked drum set. How? With Parallel Compression!!
Parallel compression is a staple for most mixing engineers. Why? Because it’s so effective in helping make certain elements of a mix stand out or feel bigger. I use Parallel compression ALL the time on multiple areas in my mixes.
For this tutorial I’m going to use stock Logic Pro X plugins only. I want this to be about the concept and not the gear. Once you understand the concept use the gear you have. Analog or Digital. Go to town and have fun!
Ultimate Studios, Inc is a full service recording studio, mixing studio and band development resource located in Los Angeles, Van Nuys, North Hollywood, Panorama City, CA 91402 https://www.ultimatestudiosinc.com
We believe EVERYONE deserves great sounding music! Ultimate Studios, Inc is a boutique production facility for artists and bands to collaborate, create, and record.
Led by Producer/Engineer Charlie Waymire, our team assists artists through the entire creative process including recording, mixing, mastering, and video production.
Our ultimate goal is to help bands and artists build a strong brand for a lasting career!
Contact us for more information about how we can help you achieve your musical goals!
