Birdland Recording Studios: News to Us

Bishop Black the best band in Decatur (just ask Jennifer) are tracking their latest CD at Birdland using the production and engineering skills of Steve Lowery who owns and runs the Mix Room Studio in Decatur. The guys have laid down 11 great tracks. Overdubs and the mix will be done at the Mix Room. You haven't heard tracks like this till now, they ROCK! Watch for the CD soon! These guys are on fire! www.myspace.com/bishopblack

Joshua Karai has been nominated for Best New Artist of the Year and Best Alternative Album of the Year for the 2008 Muscle Shoals Music Awards. Thanks for voting!

We are in the final stages of preparing the new Chromatics CD for release. Eleven great songs by the Chrome Man himself . . . Tom Pizza! With guest guitar solos by David Mixon, Chris Simmons, Danny Hall and Jason Speagle! This thing ROCKS!!!! Look for it in September 2008. The popKorn dudes? www.cdbaby.com/cd/chromatics

Can it be true, yes Andy it is! The popKorn Dudes have been nominated for (drum roll please) Best Record Producer of the Year for the Joshua Karai album "SingH". When asked for a comment the Dudes said "Fantasmic". Thanks for your vote!

Well, well, well boys and girls, Birdland Recording Studio has been nominated for Best Recording Studio for the 2008 Muscle Shoals Music Awards. Thanks for voting!

Well boys and girls it's here! The Joshua Karai CD "SingH" is ready for public consumption! available on Birdland Records! For procurement go to www.cdbaby.com/cd/joshuakarai

Just added to the choices of monitoring speakers at Birdland are the Focal Chorus 806-V. These are the first near field speakers that we trust (more than the Yamaha NS10m's) as far as our mixes translating well on other playback systems, from boom boxes to audiophile systems.

We finally retired our Up-Right Acoustic Piano and purchased a Yamaha CP300 Digital Piano. The CP300 features a 40MB 3-Layer stereo piano sample with sustain and key-off, and graded hammer action keys. The CP300 piano gives you the same pedal control as an actual grand piano. There’s also a wide variety of other dynamic sounds, including vintage electric piano, organ, guitar, strings, and much more. This thing ROCKS!

With the purchase of the new Trident console it was necessary to re-wire the entire studio. We choose Jazz Media Services to carry out the complex task of building all the wiring harnesses, snakes, insert, output and return cables that would be needed to change over from an un-balanced to a fully balanced system.

Jazz Media Services came through with flying colors! The quality, workmanship and attention to detail are truly works of audio art.

Call James Murphree at 256-341-0854 or email jazzydaw@charter.net.

New paint, new carpet, new equipment and cleaning out 26 years worth of stuff we have accumlated, we are finally ready to open!

We purchased the new Trident 8T-32 Channel Console along with 2 Alesis HD24 24 track digital recorders.

We have an array of Audio-Technica, AKG, Sennheiser, CAD, and fresh Shure 57's. We have 8 channels of Black Lion Audio compressors (these things are amazing) Lexicon, Yamaha, Korg, TC Electronic effects. QSC power amps, and the best monitoring system we've heard.

With the Alesis HD24's Birdland is the perfect place to cut your basic tracks, take your tracks with you and do the overdubs, then return to mix your project without any summing or latency problems.

Call Owen or Jeff to set up an appointment, bring some of your favorite disks or tracks you've recorded and check our playback system.

-jeff