Fix It In The Mix

Recording starts with a good song finishes with a good mix to bring out its full potential. We offer competitive prices and a solid product in a timely fashion. Check out below our samples and see if we are right for your project! All genres welcome!

Thunderstorm Thoughts

Music is always about self expression. Many great tunes have come from inspiration such as love, hate, even oppression. A whole genre of music (blues and jazz) came from racial oppression. Folk has long since been a safe harbour of people expressing their ideas through songs. Bob Dylan has created a whole career just based on that!

Brahma Blue has created a 23 track album over one night during a thunderstorm. 1 microphone created such an organic feel its as if your sitting with him on his floor and hearing him whisper sweet nothings into your ears. Having such an original and tonally rich voice, sometimes it doesn't even matter what he is singing about, all that maters is that it just flows into your cerebellum. So grab some headphones and crank this album up with a nice cup of tea and enjoy.

Check it out HERE. His Facebook is HERE.

If I Love You, Will You Hold Your Love Against Me?

Being a musician is hard. No way around it. Tons of people are creating great music that will never reach the ears of the public. Zalesko is one of those artists. 20 albums under his belt and still pumping out music. We took a look at "Hold Your Love Against Me".

This album is meant to put on a chill parties or while your relaxing on a sunday morning. Full of diverse musically stimulating tracks. The vocals are just far back enough in the mix to not have to focus on the words but to just let your mind wander. Each track is a groove based psychedelic rock anthem. Think Woodstock, everyone is just chilling out and excited to just be there and experience the experience. This album is just that, don't take it for trying to be a top 40 hit or a new revelation in music, just enjoy it. It reminds me if Bob Dylan teamed up with Eric Clapton and sat together in a hookah lounge.

Check out the album and all his other work!

Where The River Divides

Hailing from Richmond, River's Divide shared with us their 6 track album and it sounds fantastic! Some classic rock twang bringing back a Blue Oyster Cult sound mixed with some modern sounds like Oasis create this lyric driven rock album.

Catchy melodic riffs help fill out the sound of the first track titled "FalseHoods". The album is full of a diverse array of tracks such as "Everything Enter" which has more of a funk rock feel. Having all four band members sing really adds flavour and depth to each track. The true essence of the classic rock era was the complex harmonies and River's Divide did a fantastic job adding that into this album. The guitar work is fantastic and really brings out that 70's era guitar sound like the Allman brothers with some Hendrix thrown in there.

These songs are really stories told with a musical background. Definitely worth checking out! Below is the album and check them out on Facebook HERE.

The Moon Is Rising

Demoing is an important part of song writing. It's all fine and dandy to write songs, but until you actually record it, even with just phone, can you actually hear what it sounds like. Sy Du has recorded some cool demos and from a producers view I can hear the ideas formed into what they could actually sound like. From a common listeners ear some people might dismiss these tracks. Lots of people are so used to hearing the final polished songs on the radio that their ears just cannot adjust to anything rawer than than.

These tracks sound to me more like southern rock or stoner rock than straight blues rock. Granted, stoner rock is basically just a little more progressive blues rock. With the style of vocals on the track right now I could see more of a spacier far out direction of production than just a standard blues album. The vocals could use a bit of tuning or just a couple more takes to order to achieve the desired result. The bass sounds nice and thick and rounded and the overall ideas and pretty solid.

Check out the tracks below!

Getting Sly With Things

Musician creation is one of the most magical things in existence. Some people create music for themselves, some people create music to make money, and some people find a balance of the two. There is no wrong way or right way to create music. Katie Sly has been creating music since she was very young. Plenty of musicians have done that, but she decided to take things to the next level and chase her dreams. She travelled down to LA to attend school to gain a Associates Degree In Bass Performance. Once she returned to Canada she founded Steel Vibrations, a music and media production company, utilizing her industry experience.

She has started creating her own solo work in 2011 and has released a radio ready single titled "Progress". This piano driven track has a great laid back ambient feel. The production value sounds fantastic and each instrument has a very natural and rounded tone. "Progress" reminds me of some tracks by "Moby". Musically stimulating but the track just seems to slowly evolve into other ideas. As far as being a single for radio its not really fitted to radio length. The song structure is more flowing than most of the stuff on the radio today. The strings have a thick organic sound which fits nicely with the laid back vocals. If you want some relaxing music to listen to while reading a good book or doing some meditation I would highly recommend putting this on the speakers!

Check out her Facebook page HERE.

Go Get Yourself A Blue Tattoo

Since moving to Vancouver Island, we've noticed the abundance of blues players around here. There are a number of professional bands that go around the island playing at events, bars and basically every kind of event you can think of! The Blue Tattoo band plays some mean blues tunes all around the island. After reading a bio from each band member this band has a ton of experience under their belt so it makes sense on why their tunes are so polished already.

Playing both cover tunes and originals these guys are sure to get your groove moving and your hips shaking! It puts a smile on my face seeing a keyboard player in the mix as well. Too many times I just see a four piece blues band around town but it adds such a new dynamic to have a keyboard. The vocals have a great amount of grit to them and some great dynamics. Some great guitar work as well as classic bass lines all tied together with real laid back drums create the sound of this versatile band.

Check them out on Facebook HERE. Reverbnation HERE.