Manifold Recording is excited to be participating in the IBMA 2017 educational track! We are presenting “Bluegrass and Beyond: Audio Production and Engineering Techniques” which is aimed at artists and engineers interested in learning how to get fresh, new sounds from traditional bluegrass ensembles. The roots of this session joined …
The Nile Project: Artists in Residence
The Nile Project is a group of musicians from countries that are touched by the waters of the Nile River. The Nile Project’s mission is to raise awareness of issues that threaten the rich ecosystem and vital resources that the Nile River provides to millions of people in Africa. They do …
A Voice Louder than Rock (Video Production)
A Voice Louder than Rock & Roll tells the story of Caleb Quaye, one of the finest, but also least-known guitarists of the British Invasion. In London he met and played with keyboard player Reg Dwight, who would later become known as Elton John. He recorded and toured with Elton John …
Autumn Nicholas Tracking Sessions
Autumn Nicholas, an award-winning singer-song writer from Fayetteville North Carolina, is recording her first studio album at Manifold Recording! We spent the first week of February recording scratch tracks. Each week thereafter we added layers, recording drums and percussion, bass, piano, organ, guitars, and finally lead vocals. We will mix and …
UNCSA Chrysalis Ensembles
This past weekend, Manifold Recording hosted four ensembles of the Chrysalis Chamber Music Institute from UNC School of the Arts (UNCSA): the Giannini String Quartet, the Liminal Phase wind quintet, the Chrysalis Brass Quintet, and an ad hoc piano/violin duet. The goal of the session was to give these developing musicians an …
Sarah Shook and the Disarmers — Sidelong
Sarah Shook came to Manifold Recording by way of an Intern from Italy, Mario Bianchi, but the story of Sidelong, Sarah’s first full-length album, has a longer history. And one that makes this album release that much sweeter. A recent feature in INDY Week tells the backstory of a Sarah’s journey, from …
Making a Record? Or Making a Demo?
Last night as I was driving home, I heard Bryan Adams interviewed on the CBC’s program q. In the course of that interview, he went into some details about his three-step process for making a record: Write the song Record the demo Make the record His 12 studio albums have been extremely successful, …
Kat Robichaud studio sessions
Last month Kat Robichaud and her band moved in to the studio to record an epic rock album, with Ian Schreier engineering and producing. The process actually began some time before that, but the studio came into play for some intensive rehearsals before tracking and mixing began. Here’s a shot …
Experience the Mixing Process at Manifold Recording
Last year, John Heitzenrater and the band Hindugrass came to Manifold Recording to track their new album. John used crowd-funding to help defray the costs of the tracking session, and to use his home studio to edit and mix the resulting tracks. The theory was that by going “all in” …
Success Stories
I have been talking for some time about the virtues of kickstarter funding for music recording projects. The indie album Move by Matt Phillips and the Philharmonic could not have been made without kickstarter funding. But the more I learn about the world of music kickstarters, the more I see …