The beginning of the month is always a crazy time at the recording studio, and this month was no different. We had so much excellent work to do for a lot of great clients and are pretty excited by some new projects that have come in this month.
The week started off with finalizing the music for a new independent movie that we did some sound cues for and wrote some original track beds for (we’ll definitely blog about the movie when it hits the festivals, but can’t say yet what it is). Then we also did a lot of classical arranging for classical composer Gary Barnett, he’s been a real long time friend and loyal client, and we are incredibly happy that he is back in the studio working on new music. He has moved to Washington D.C. so we are really pleased that he has come back to NYC to record and arrange with us. Expect a whole lot more news about all his classical recordings!
This week we also got around to doing some great work with Mimi Imfurst. We’ve been working on two new tracks with her (one original and one cover, but that’s all you’ll get out of us!), and this week she had her backup singers come into the studio and lay down some classic harmonies. It was a pretty great session, and Mimi was kind enough to let us use part of the session to let our assistant take the wheel and learn a little more about running a high-profile session.
If having Mimi in the studio wasn’t enough, we also had her friend in, Miss Sherry Vine to record some vocals for a few of her upcoming live performance tracks. Sherry is always thinking about her live show, and it really shows in the studio how much time, effort, and thought she puts into each track that she incorporates into her live show. Not only that, she is a really great and efficient studio singer, so we get a lot of recording done in just a little time, pretty impressive 🙂
One more project we had this week was actually related to both Mimi and Sherry, we had another Ru Paul’s Drag Race star in the studio working on a new original track, Pandora Boxx. We’ve done a bit of work with Pandora before, and we really love having her in the studio, and working remotely with her, so it was great to finish up mixing and producing on an original track we co-wrote and recorded with her. This wasn’t a recording session where she came to NYC (she lives in LA), but we communicating via email about all her mix changes and production notes, and we spent the time perfecting the mix and master until she was happy. Really looking forward to recording her next one!
The week wouldn’t be complete without a Saturday full of sessions! We had Jeff Vernick and Ivo Pavlov of the band How Much in the studio working on editing and mixing their new single. Their first track “Make the Decision” did well on iTunes and we were happy to have recorded and produced it for them. This new track, called “Let You Go” is full of heavy guitars, spot on drumming, and emotional vocals that I’m sure their fans are going to love. They are back in this upcoming week to finalize the mix and master with us. Saturday also brought in some more NYC recording artists of another genre, R&B, and soul. We had a new up and coming soul singer in the studio named Tommy Tomcat, and while he doesn’t have too much press out, we’ll keep you updated on all his endeavors when this track drops. But we had a great four hour session recording vocals with him, his producer, and his vocal coach. They meticulously went through recording vocals for the verses and bridge and chorus separately zeroing in on every detail until they had recorded every note they were going to need for mixing. We can’t wait to see how that track turns out
So, it was a pretty busy week here at Mirrortone, I guess that comes with the territory of running a recording studio in New York City. Now back to work, gonna be a busy second week of April!