Recording Questions
Have questions about recording? Contact Amerisound Studios. They're friendly and knowledgeable staff will be happy to answer any questions you might have.
Amerisound Studios understands that your surroundings can and do affect your ability to develop ideas, work creatively, and produce imaginative musicality. Therefore, as important to them as state of the art equipment and world-class recording technology, is the space and atmosphere, which surrounds it. At Amerisound they went to great measures to create an environment that was not only acoustically sound, but creatively conducive for each and every client: distinctive class, comfortable surrounds and a convenient location. They asked themselves one simple question: Would our customers want to record here?
Over the years their answer, a resounding "yes". With the warmth of solid-oak floors and high-sonic ceilings, Amerisound's creative ambiance is perfectly suited for a myriad of audio production applications. Every recording room and isolation booth is acoustically designed and sonically reinforced for optimum sound recording resonance. Their panoramic main control room allows for visual and audio communication between musician, producer, and client. Just off the main control room, they offer digital mastering, editing, and MIDI programming suites. All of their clients from corporate professionals to beginning artists can relax in their studio lounge equipped with the complete comforts of home.
Their equipment includes:
Mackie HDR96 24 Bit 24 Track Hard Drive Recorder (Pro Tools Compatible)
Fully automated 64 input Otari Status 18 R mixing console
32 tracks of digital Adat
24 tracks of MCI analog
Bias Peak Mastering Software
Pro Tools LE Software
Waves Diamond Plug-ins
G4 Mac Computers
G5 Mac Computers
R-Dat decks
Tascam MKII/I and a Panasonic 3700
Sony APR 5000 analog 2 track
Sony 5800 3/4" video deck
Micriphones:
AKG C12
Neuman U87
Neuman KM84
Senheiser 421
Electrovoice 250's
Sure SM57
Beta 52
Rode 1000's
Studio Projects
Tandy, Mackie, Yamaha, Alesis, and Berhinger Monitors
Staff
Dan Green (owner)
Writer, Producer, Engineer, Graduate of The Ohio State University,Produced 9 nationally
distributed CDs, Developed hundreds of commercials, Wrote two complete movie scores
including "A Star for Jeremy" which aired on Showtime Cable Television Network.
Gary Strauss
The drummer known to thousands of Central Ohio music fans as "Captain", has been on staff for over 21 yrs. His background in record retail and as a touring/studio musician helped to prepare him for his current duties in production assistance, philosophy of performance, career consultation, duplication, mastering, digital editing & sales. It’s his voice you first hear asking, "May I help?", when you call Amerisound with your questions about studio services. Gary has been seen in Roger McGuinn’s back-up band, opened for KISS, Georger Jones, Berlin, Joe Jackson, KoKo Taylor, the Average White Band, Donnie
Iris, the Dixie Dregs, the Dazz Band, Aaron Tippin, Exile, John Conlee, the Greg Kihn Band, Humble Pie, Commander Cody, Nicolette Larson, and can currently be seen playing music locally with the band Variety Pack.
Edan Shaffstall (website)
Audio & Digital Media Engineer, Graduate of The Ohio State University, Graduate of The Recording Workshop, Toured with The Glassmen Drum and Bugle Corps and various other groups as a percussionist, Clinician at the 1999 P.A.S.I.C convention in Columbus, OH. Numerous awards and recognitions, Personal studio equipment, Avalon vt737sp, Apogee Rosetta 200 AD/DA, Yamaha Motif Rack, Yamaha SubKick, ProTools 7.4 LE / 003 Rack, Digidesign Music Production Toolkit, Waves Diamond Bundle, Sound Toys Plugins, Antares Auto-Tune.
Christopher Breck
Audio / Video Engineer, Electronic Technician, Assistant Engineer and Manager, Graduate of
Control Data Institute, Graduate of The Recording Workshop, Former Chief Engineer for Technical Maintenance at The Recording Workshop, Assisted in design of Amerisound; wired the studio, Associate of Amerisound for 20 years, World Music Composer, Alternative Energy
Researcher, Nutrition Consultant.
Contact Amerisound Studios
Dan Green - dangreen@amerisound.com
Gary Strauss - gary@amerisound.com
Edan Shaffstall - studio@amerisound.com
Christopher Breck - ckb990@gmail.com
5100 Transamerica Dr.
Columbus, OH 43228
Phone: 614.527.0250
Fax: 614.527.0251
Visit their website at www.amerisound.com.
When recording always remember to replace your heads! Also bring extra heads and sticks, the last thing you want to do is to have to run to the music store when you're on the studio clock. The drums are the foundation and life of almost every song. The better they sound and feel, the better the song - that's why I focus so much on them.
- Link Logen