thanks & PREs

Somewhere around 1985 I saw an ad in a San Francisco paper: "WANTED: wood-floor work in exchange for recording equipment." Wonder! Brief disbelief? Reader & Reading material (re?)UNITE. A drive to the hills of Berkeley, California to meet the infamous Dan Alexander. Before boxes of WINE stacked HIGH (a recent BARTER: booze to record BLUES band); a deal is made & a strange & mysterious friendship is formed. Many dirty hours later the goods arrive: 4 API pre-amps (what?) & 2 Neumann microphones. Plug the microphone into the pre-amp, send the pre-amp straight to the tape-deck (an Otari 50-50 8-track), NO EQ, NO mixing board!!
Over the years there would be many trips to Dan's house: microphones, compressors, a Studer 2-track, an EMT plate-reverb, the BIG REDS; all would be carted back to QUESTA. Hippies (as Dan called us) worked away at basements & staircases & doorways while Dan found us gears to "make my voice sound good!" (the plate), or something to mix down to other than a DAT, (the Studer b67). The studio filled up slowly. Every piece with a sweet story. Like that kid with the magic beans...

SARASWATI

the CON/SOUL:
QUAD EIGHT (original name: westar) (pre-mitsubishi); shipped in early eighties to
Abbey Road Studios. Sent back to factory for "cosmetic reasons." Served its time there as a 'test' console. Did some time on the East Coast then a stint at a recording school in Tijeras, NM. Located by console finder extraordinaire, Dan Alexander; brought to Questa, NM in pieces. A beautiful 'chitty-chitty-bang-bang' of SOUND. I spent 2 years wiring infrastructure, playing with power supplies, moping, e-mailing Eddie Ciletti & eventually cobbling enough signal path together to listen to "Ziggy Stardust" & the Staples Family. In GRATITUDE to the PROTECTOR of ART & SCIENCE I dubbed the desk: SARASWATI!!! 36 in-line channels (most of them functioning!) 31 differential mic-pres.
A certain 'exactness,' with ghosts would describe it best.
Art of FLYing is now in the mist of overdubs.

testDRIVE

Art of FLYing started new record this AUGUST 2008. 12 new basics & some overdubs done!! Mike Stanioch behind the wheels & dials & faders...Chris Schoen & banjo fly in from Chicago.
New rockers will someday SOON fly THEMselves with help from extra vox layers & shakers &

...of course...a KISS of delay.

Welcome to thee barn

check this sweet place where you can record your dream scene to a big giant piece of TAPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! music by larry yes video by sare rane

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