True-to-the-music recordings in real space with real dynamic range.

About

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Butler Recording is dedicated to fostering DIY music/sound artist development by providing an affordable, ego-free production environment combined with no compromise audio recording quality.

Butler Recording is located in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, USA and consists of:


1 great recording facility-highlights:
  • large fantastic sounding live area-with enough room for large bands or medium size chamber ensembles, this room loves human voice and acoustic instruments of all kinds, a GREAT drum tracking room...
  • medium size isolated recording booth (basically a small drum room) acoustically designed specifically for recording wooden and other acoustic instruments and human voice...
  • acoustically designed control room/secondary isolated area...
  • Pro Tools HD, 192 I/O w/ 18 simultaneous inputs, Command|8, Altiverb, T-Racks, Miroslav Philharmonik, Live, Reason, Overture, SoundSoap, more...
  • Lawson L251, Rode Classic, AKG C 414 B-ULS/SS pair w/ ck12 brass capsules, matched Oktava MK012s, Shure Beta52, EV re20, Sennheiser 421, Shinybox 46MXC (i.e. w/ Cinemag transformer mod) matched pair ribbons, many more...
  • MP2NV Mercenary Edition, Sebatron VMP 4000E, AEA TRP, 2x MindPrint En-Voice, CLM Dynamics DB400s, more...
  • Adam P11s...
  • Vintage Hiwatt and Fender Princeton, other great vintage and modern amps rotate in (please inquire), Vintage Les Paul Special, Hammond M102 w/ Leslie, ancient Wurly electric piano, early Paul Daniel McGill archtop, Epiphone Jack Casady bass, Ampeg B-100r, 2 great drum kits (British Yamaha Power Special, custom jazz kit) and tons of great cymbals and extra drums (e.g. small bop kick to switch into custom jazz kit, etc.)...
1 Recording Engineer/Producer/Musician, to wit Butler, with over 20 years of experience:
  • all kinds of music, particularly acoustic sources (though including a strong electronic music background)
  • scoring
  • production audio, voice over narration
  • editing
  • online audio
  • studio design, wiring, construction, DAW installation/maintenance
  • audio education
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