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Top Quality Sound For Your Inspired Music

Record, Edit, Mix, and Mastering Services for Live and Studio Music Performance.

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Recording

Capture your music with condensor, ribbon, and dynamic microphones from Microtech Gefell, AKG, Royer, Mesanovic, and others. Mics are run through Neve, A-Designs, Grace, and Universal Audio preamps before the audio is converted to digital.

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Editing

Over 20 years of multi-track audio editing to leverage for your music. Get the perfect fades, crossfades, sample alignments, automation, and clean up layered tracks with a Pro Tools DAW. Use an expert so a computer won't slow down your creativity.

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Mixing

Take your tracks to the next level with the right balance and the right signal processing to make them sound how the music calls for. Mixing is done "in the box" and leverages 100's of plugins by Universal Audio, Waves, brainworks, and others.

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Mastering

No song is complete without a proper master processing of the stereo mixdown. Make your song sing out on every speaker and headphone it gets listened on. Mastering will keep your mix unaltered with proper volume across different playback systems.

So, What's Up?!

My name is Brendan and Running Water Studio is my personal studio, I have a masters degree in electrical and computer engineering and have played in bands and orchestras since I was 8 years old. Early on, in my high school years, I was mentored in audio engineering at the University of New Mexico and Ubik Sound recording studios in Albuquqerque, NM. Since then I've been building my studio and gear collection while playing with groups in California and Massachusetts. Now living in Michigan I hope to help you take your music and recordings to the next level.

I have a mobile setup and prefer to come to you so that we record where you're most comfortable playing. We can do some simple, non-destructive acoustic treatment and I'll use careful mic placements to capture a studio quality sound at musician friendly prices. Alternatively, we can arrange for a space to play where I'll engineer your recording. I'm very flexible.

I have a large collection of microphones as well as analog and digital gear to capture high quality recordings of your music. We're talking high end, industry standard European and American made microphones that musicians don't have at their practice space. Recording is done digitally with a Pro Tools DAW. I use as much analog gear and analog emulation plugins (check out Universal Audio) as possible in the signal chain to get that special mojo that pure digital recording lacks. See the below section on gear for more information on what exactly we can record you with/through.

Absolutetly! Let's work together to finish your songs. I can help with any overdubs, editing, mixing, or mastering needs that you have. If you want, we can get together over coffee to brainstorm on what to do to take your song to the next level.

I am probably more excited to record and work on your music to get it out into the world than you are and I know how crazy stoked you must already be about recording it. I hope that my passion to record and engineer your music results in songs that sound better than they were dreamed to be. Besides that, I have all the expensive gear and high end tools that you'd expect when working with a studio. Oh yeah, I charge rock bottom prices since I have a day job to pay my bills.

Send me an email or text that your interested and lets connect. I want to get started as soon as you do. Email: brendan@runningwaterstudio.com Text: 805-698-1050.

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Mix/Master Only

$ 20 per song
  • Sometimes you have your tracks recorded and maybe even mixed down. I can help you complete your project using top of the line plugins from Universal Audio, Waves, FabFilter, and brainworx along with outboard analog and digital gear. Send in your session files and get back a finalized song you can distribute.
  • Sound Editing In Pro Tools
  • 2 Mixdown Draft Listens
  • 1 Master Draft Listen

Record, Mix, Master

$ 50 per song
  • Have your song recorded, mixed, and mastered from start to finish. Record using a large selection of high-end microphones and analog gear. Record tracks as uncompresed 24 bit 48kHz WAV files. Master recording delivered as CD-quality file and high bit rate MP3/AAC for streaming.
  • Multi-Track Digital Recording (Up To 24 Simultaneous Tracks)
  • Use Wide Array Of Condensor, Ribbon, and Dynamic Microphones
  • Mix/Master Package

Record 2 Get 1 Free

$ 100
  • Get engineering and studio time for a third song added in free when you sign up for the first 2 songs.
  • 3 Songs Package
  • Record, Mix, Master Package For Each Song

Full Album/
Live Performance

$ 250 Fixed Rates
  • Sign up for 7+ songs and get a sweet deal for producing an album. Alternatively, record a live performance of up to 2.5 hours. Extra hours/songs pro-rated for this sweet deal.
  • $25/song For 7+ Songs (Minimum $250)
  • 2.5 Hour Live Performance ($100/hour Live Recording)
  • Record, Mix, Master Package For Each Song

CONTACT

Let me know how to get in touch with you and what your interest is in getting your music recorded/engineered.

Address

Tree Town (aka Ann Arbor) in Michigan

Contact

Email:
brendan@runningwaterstudio.com

Phone:
805-698-1050