The BARN Recorder

TWO-TON STRAP

2011-07-30T15:18:00.003-06:00

Two-Ton Strap, the second-best band in Taos, NM (TM) has returned to the Barn to mix their upcoming 12" record---at this time still untitled.
Kevin at the Board.

Danny & Max.

Kan- asleep at the wheel.

art of flying returns to the barn.

2010-11-18T09:09:00.002-07:00

Bird'S EYE view of Art of FLYing.

3 New Songs. 3 New recordings.

Thollem McDonas & Ben Wright visit the Barn.

2010-09-20T13:04:00.004-06:00

Thollem's wife Angela, up close & personal,
makes a movie of the recording.
(Angela, don't forget to send me a copy)!

Thollem
& Ben Wright down below.

Larry YES starts NEW record.

2010-08-17T16:35:00.004-06:00

Before & after sound(S)FEST11 we worked on a new Larry Yes record. No working title.

Recording basics for "HOME" with Jeremiah on tablas.

Working it out on the Uke.

Vermont Joy Parade album "Kicking Sawdust" is released!

2010-08-04T20:36:00.004-06:00

We recorded & mixed 16 tracks in 3 days last July. Sent the mixes to Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering service. Cut acetates, made some plates, etc etc etc...the vinyl is finally here.
KICKING SAWDUST, their first release, out on 12" (& CD, I believe) Check out the review here:http://www.7dvt.com/2010vermont-joy-para..de-kicking-sawdust
more info at:http://vermontjoyparade.com/
Catch their tour, NOW (august 2010) on the east coast.
Ciao, Bennie!

LARRY YES! starts a new record...

2010-08-04T20:21:00.005-06:00

Larry Yes (& the Know?) No? (non?)
shown here with Adam & Nate (at 'sound(S)FEST!! at the Seco Pearl in Taos, NM), came to the BARN from Portland, OR to make a new record. 12 new songs, VOX, most over-dubs. 7 trips to the Rio Grande (or was it more than that?) Jeremiah Glauser from Taos, NM came up to play drums & tablas on one killer track. Looking forward to a mix in November. Then cut it to vinyl!

ART of FLYing/BACK in the STUDIO

2009-11-27T11:12:00.004-07:00

ART of FLYing has started recording AGAIN. Recording OVER the songs that were rejected from though the light seem small: (2" tape is EXPENSIVE)---making up songs to FIT. Guitar sounds & piano sounds --sounding for new songs--seeing what will take shape.

ALSO: we are recording a song especially written for the Waghaal's 25th anniversary Compilation Record. All songs about RECORDS--the working title: JUMP IN THE RECORD (song for Fred Maessen about records). This release should appear by summer 2010.

Vermont Joy parade

2009-07-31T18:04:00.003-06:00

15 new TRACKS in 2 days!
Everybody sang a tune,

Bennie & Devin will return to mix
next week. 12" vinyl
by December.
Hopefully a link to a whole set of
studio pictures, up on Flickr-as
soon as how to UPload
I can figger.

LarrY YES visits the BARN

2009-07-22T16:50:00.002-06:00

While in town for SUANFEST#10
Larry YES stops by for a BATH & a
LISTEN.
"SEAL in the SUNSHINE," rough-mixes
sound extra FINE on the BIG REDs's.
Look for it on VINYL sometime/somewhere
SOON.
As usual we chatted it UP:
When will you & yr band THE RUCKUS, come out to the BARN
& make a record?

nowMIXing

2009-01-28T11:08:00.002-07:00

ART of FLYing is NOW mixing--& all of FEBruary...final touches on new record:
thoughthelightseemsmall. Still some singing left to find--a horn &/or 2...some
final visitors & hearings, big&small. Happy New YEAR!!

BOOKingS

2009-01-08T11:20:00.000-07:00

the BARN recorder is AVAILABLE for recording sessions. PLEASE call (575)586-2132
or e-mail cosmoclown2002@yahoo.com for price/availability.

GEARs LIsT

2009-01-08T11:01:00.001-07:00

QUAD EIGHT (westar) PRO-TO-TYPE aka (SARASWATI)
36 IN-LINE channels 31 Q-8 differential MIC pres.
MCI 2" 16-track w/ AUTO-LOCATOR 2
STUDER b67 1/4" 2-track
tascam DA-30 mk-2 DAT
MONITORS: ALTEC 604 BIG REDs
(w/MASTERing LAB crossovers);
& GENELEC 1029's
MAIN ROOM 20' x 30' w/20' ceilings
extra pres:
API 312 -4
telefunken v72 -3
outboard:
NEVE 2254/e
compressor/limiter -3
iTi parametric -1
EMT plate reverb -1
ibanez analog delays -2
ROLAND tape echo -1
mics:
AKG c12a -1
AKG c61 -3
AKG 414 -1
neumann km53 -2
shure 57's & 58's

guitars, amps,
electric piano, upright
piano, trumpets,
vibes...

thanks & PREs

2008-09-04T14:30:00.000-06:00

Somewhere around 1985 I saw an ad in a San Francisco paper: "WANTED: wood-floor work in exchange for recording equipment." Wonder! Brief disbelief? Reader & Reading material (re?)UNITE. A drive to the hills of Berkeley, California to meet the infamous Dan Alexander. Before boxes of WINE stacked HIGH (a recent BARTER: booze to record BLUES band); a deal is made & a strange & mysterious friendship is formed. Many dirty hours later the goods arrive: 4 API pre-amps (what?) & 2 Neumann microphones. Plug the microphone into the pre-amp, send the pre-amp straight to the tape-deck (an Otari 50-50 8-track), NO EQ, NO mixing board!!
Over the years there would be many trips to Dan's house: microphones, compressors, a Studer 2-track, an EMT plate-reverb, the BIG REDS; all would be carted back to QUESTA. Hippies (as Dan called us) worked away at basements & staircases & doorways while Dan found us gears to "make my voice sound good!" (the plate), or something to mix down to other than a DAT, (the Studer b67). The studio filled up slowly. Every piece with a sweet story. Like that kid with the magic beans...

SARASWATI

2008-09-03T18:32:00.000-06:00

the CON/SOUL:
QUAD EIGHT (original name: westar) (pre-mitsubishi); shipped in early eighties to
Abbey Road Studios. Sent back to factory for "cosmetic reasons." Served its time there as a 'test' console. Did some time on the East Coast then a stint at a recording school in Tijeras, NM. Located by console finder extraordinaire, Dan Alexander; brought to Questa, NM in pieces. A beautiful 'chitty-chitty-bang-bang' of SOUND. I spent 2 years wiring infrastructure, playing with power supplies, moping, e-mailing Eddie Ciletti & eventually cobbling enough signal path together to listen to "Ziggy Stardust" & the Staples Family. In GRATITUDE to the PROTECTOR of ART & SCIENCE I dubbed the desk: SARASWATI!!! 36 in-line channels (most of them functioning!) 31 differential mic-pres.
A certain 'exactness,' with ghosts would describe it best.
Art of FLYing is now in the mist of overdubs.

testDRIVE

2008-08-28T11:50:00.000-06:00

Art of FLYing started new record this AUGUST 2008. 12 new basics & some overdubs done!! Mike Stanioch behind the wheels & dials & faders...Chris Schoen & banjo fly in from Chicago.
New rockers will someday SOON fly THEMselves with help from extra vox layers & shakers &

...of course...a KISS of delay.

Welcome to thee barn

2008-08-23T13:15:00.001-06:00

check this sweet place where you can record your dream scene to a big giant piece of TAPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! music by larry yes video by sare rane

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