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Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree Release!

Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree Release!

It's that time of year again!! That is CHRISTMAS MUSIC TIME!!

It's time to bust out the eggnog and get ready for a rockin' good time! We have a fun and rocking version of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" out on all of the streaming platforms. It's sure to put you in a good mood ready to deal with the holiday craziness!

Streaming Everywhere!

Stream & Buy on Bandcamp! | iTunes | Apple Music | Amazon Music | Youtube Music

For those of you that are interested into the production, specifically the mixing process, of the song Charlie has a full breakdown on each and every element of the mixing for Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree. Watch below!

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Piano Bar Live Stream Concert w/Steve Maggiora

Piano Bar Live Stream Concert w/Steve Maggiora

Piano recording studio Los Angeles

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
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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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The John Coltrane Jazz & Blues Festival Live Stream

The John Coltrane Jazz & Blues Festival Live Stream

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!!!

Lao Tizer – Keys
Ric Fierabracci – Bass
Gene Coye – Drums
Eric Marienthal – Sax
Munyungo Jackson – Percussion
Karen Briggs – Violin

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!

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Piano Bar Live Stream Concert Series

Piano Bar Live Stream Concert Series

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.

Set1 12pm PST Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/HUbAijBPoeI
Set2 7pm PST Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/CnQ6vuEpTAs

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 & Flow”.

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!

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New Live Stream Concert Series

New Live Stream Concert Series

Live Stream Concert

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.

Live Stream your concert from Ultimate Studios, Inc Los AngelesWith 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:

Live Stream Concert – Lao Tizer Band

Learn more about The Lao Tizer Band at: www.laotizer.com

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Roswell Pro Audio Official Showroom!

Roswell Pro Audio Official Showroom!

Ultimate Studios, Inc is now a Roswell Pro Audio Official Showroom!

I very excited to announce that Ultimate Studios, Inc is a Roswell Pro Audio Official Showroom. If you’ve seen any of the videos from the USI YouTube channel or listened to any of the wonderful artists that have recorded here at the studio then you’ve already heard Roswell microphones.

Request your free 1 hour in-studio demo today!

 

Ever since I received my first pair of Mini K47’s and Delphos they have been use on almost every recording session I’ve done. From drums to guitars to vocals Roswell has helped me shape the sounds of every artist that has come through the doors.

Speaking of vocals you have to check out the Colares!!

I love what Matt McGlynn has been able to achieve with Roswell. He’s created wonderful sounding microphones that compete with the best mics on the market, at a fraction of the price!

Now you can have a chance to check them out for yourselves. Setup a free 1 hour in-studio demo to hear how these mics sound…..in person! Just fill out the Roswell Demo Request Form to reserve your time.

Check out Roswell in action!
Live Performance of “You Really Got Me”

Ernesto Homeyer – Guitar, Philip Bynoe – Bass, Greg Garman – Drums, – Charlie Waymire – Engineer

About Ultimate Studios, Inc

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!

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Gears of War 5 Portuguese Voice Over

Gears of War 5 Portuguese Voice Over

Gears of War 5 is a huge video game, both in popularity and amount of Voice Over! I had the pleasure of recording Voice Over artist Bruno Mello who portrayed the character Del.

Voice Over artist Bruno Mello recording Gears of War 5 at Ultimate Studios, Inc

There is an enormous amount of dialog in a game like this. Some of it’s freeform, some is strict time constraint and some is lip sync.

The lip sync is the most fun because you get to see how it matches up with the video but is also tricky because Portuguese and English don’t necessarily match syllable for syllable!

The studio, Audioman, that was contracted with overseeing the Portuguese overdubs is located in Sao Paolo. It’s run by a school mate, Nick Casabona, from my Musicians Institute days in the late 90’s. Pretty cool!

It was fun working on such a cool game with great talent. If you’re a gamer you’ve got to check it out!

Charlie

 

 

About Ultimate Studios, Inc

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!

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Mixing for Taiwanese Artist “Mixer”

Mixing for Taiwanese Artist “Mixer”

Last year I had the wonderful pleasure of going to Taiwan and putting on several recording clinics with studios in Taipei and Kaohsiung along with my partners in crime Hao and Tao. Well they have opened up Ultimate Studios, Inc Taiwan and this year I got to mix a project they produced at their brand new studio.

The grammy winning band Mixer worked a new tracked at Ultimate Studios, Inc TW and was Mixed and Mastered here at Ultimate Studios, Inc in Los Angeles by myself and Ernesto Homeyer. They shot a new music video as well and a full behind the scenes video of the entire recording process along with Warm Audio.

It was so much fun having the chance to work on this track with them and the new studio. It’s a really cool band (even if you don’t speak Mandarin the melody is catchy!!) and I wish them all the best!

Have a look and a listen below!

Charlie

Lyrics | Sheng Hao
Composition | Ann
Arranger | ???Mixer
Vocal | Sheng Hao
Drum | Vincent
Bass | Eno
Guitar | Ann
Guitar | Bosy
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Producer | Tao
Recording Engineer | Hao
Mixing Engineer | Charlie Waymire
Sound Designer | Steven
Mastering Engineer | Ernesto Homeyer
Mastering Studio | Ultimate Studios Inc.
Powered by Warm Audio
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Director | Sheng Hao
Videographer | Bosy / Kyte / Choerhchun
Editor | Bosy / Kyte
Typography | Bosy / Kyte
Colorist?Bosy

Music Video

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Microphone Monday EP2 – Heil PR30

Microphone Monday EP2 – Heil PR30

For episode 2 of the new Microphone Monday series I decided to make 180? turn and pick one of my favorite dynamic mics. The Heil PR30.

Recording Piano Los AngelesIf you have followed my videos you already know that I love the PR30. It’s quite possibly my favorite tom mic ever and also gets used on guitar cabinets a lot. The nice round low mid, tight low end and forward mid-range make it easy to work with in a mix.

Plus it has fantastic off-axis rejection. That comes in real handy when you are miking a tom and there are cymbals in close proximity.

Besides toms and guitar cabs I’ve had great luck with the Heil PR30 on overheads (especially in a live situation), hi-hat and bass cab. Wait till you hear the bass in this video! It’s tight and punchy.

Recording bass at Ultimate Studios Inc recording studio los angeles
Recording bass with the Heil PR30

Another place I’ve had great luck with the PR30 is vocals. The smooth but pronounced mid-range make it a no brainier on a vocal. Heil Sound also make a handheld version called the PR35.

Without further ado let’s get to Microphone Monday EP2!

Happy recording!
Charlie

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About Ultimate Studios, Inc

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!

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New Recording Studio Trailer!

New Recording Studio Trailer!

New Ultimate Studios, Inc Recording Studio Trailer

Recording, Mixing, Mastering, Video Production. Yes of course we do all of these things. Ultimate Studios, Inc is a full service recording studio in Los Angeles. Continue reading →

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