On behalf of Ann and me, welcome to the Undisclosed Location Studios blog!
Getting this place fully up and running has been a multi-year effort, with a couple of major setbacks along the way. But it’s nice to feel like we’ve finally got our feet under us.
I’ve told friends over the past few years that we’ve been in “silent running” mode: we didn’t really have a “shingle” to hang out, digital or otherwise. If you happened to know we existed, we were happy to work with you. But you might have had to sit on a camping chair in the control room while we waited for the producer’s couch to arrive. To our many friends, clients, and clients-who’ve-become-friends, thank you for putting up with all of that construction foolishness and choosing to work with us anyway. With things finally (mostly) assembled, put away, and plugged in, and the website up and running, it feels like it’s time to launch this blog, too.
To our many friends, clients, and clients-who’ve-become-friends, thank you for putting up with all of that foolishness and choosing to work with us anyway.
I say the studio is “mostly” assembled because I think there will always be something that needs improving, fixing, or building. Back in 2003 I was bit HARD by the do-it-yourself bug, and ever since then I have been really excited about building my own gear to use in the studio. There is nothing quite so satisfying as hearing a great sound coming out of a piece of gear you built yourself, whether it’s a microphone, preamp, compressor — you name it. So we’ll use this space to tell you about new pieces of gear we’ve added to the studio–whether I happen to have built them or not.
And of course, we’ll share with you any news we might be able to report about the goings-on in the studio: clients that are visiting us, projects we’re working on, and so on. Of course, whether to share a project that’s still in progress is really up to the client, so we may not always be able to share sound samples with you. And while there’s an immediacy to hearing a project right at the moment that it’s going down on the hard drive, listening to unfinished work is a little like listening to sausage being made: you probably don’t want to know what goes into every recording, or at least you’ll enjoy it a lot more if you don’t. So we’ll try to save the magic for the finished product whenever we can.
Feel free to drop us a note to say hello, and thanks for stopping by!
