This story first appeared in Trust Me, I’m a Scientist, December 3, 2012.
“I wasn’t interested in recording music because I particularly enjoyed putting up microphones,” says producer and engineer Scott Solter. “I wasn’t somebody who understood anything technical about audio – or anything technical at all.”
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In this month’s issue of Trust Me I’m A Scientist, Brooklyn musician Daniel Shuman talks to Scott Solter, the producer and engineer behind distinctive sounding records by John Vanderslice, Mountain Goats, Spoon and more. Read an excerpt below or click through to the full article.
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Excello Recording, one of Brooklyn’s most unique recording facilities, has been hosting a wide variety of sessions of late.
Vampire Weekend, John Popper and Jamie McClean, and Erik Friedlander were all through (separately, of course) to record in Excello’s large tracking room (1,000-sq.ft. w/ 17′ ceilings).
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The musician and gear-head’s playground that is Excello Recording in Williamsburg has been a musical home for several album projects in recent months, including records with Pagoda (led by actor/musician Michael Pitt), another actor/musician, Sophie Auster — who’s working on a record with songwriter and producer Barry Reynolds — rock Read more...
ASTORIA, QUEENS: Over the winter, Brooklyn indie-rock band Bridges & Powerlines made their forthcoming record, Eve, with producer/engineer Kieran Kelly at his Astoria studio, The Buddy Project.
As fans of Bridges and Powerlines’ debut LP, Ghost Types, with its catchy-cool synth-pop meets indie-rock sound, we jumped at the opportunity Read more...
