Mark Dann Recording   Music Production Recording - Mixing Mastering - Restoration    New York City & Woodstock, NY (212) 941-7771   Home   MUSIC PRODUCTION RECORDING & MIXING -Studio Overview - - Equipment List - - Vinyl Record & Analog Tape Restoration - - Home Studio Services -   MASTERING FOR CD & VINYL   - Mastering Overview - - Analog Mastering For CD - - Mix Submission Guidelines - - Pre-Mastering Listening Test - - Web-Enhanced CDs - - Artist & Client List -  - Mixing Tips - - Audio Samples -    Photos - NYC Photos - Woodstock   email the studio! if the mail link above does not work: Mark107 - at - aol.com

Mark Dann Recording Mastering and Recording Studio (212) 941-7771 - NYC USA -  email: Mark107 at aol.com       We are located in lower Manhattan (Tribeca) as well as Woodstock, NY   We feature: 2" Analog 24-track Digidesign Pro Tools HD Motu Digital Performer Alesis M20 ADAT  Ultra high-end outboard gear and mics Extremely experienced PRO ENGINEERS Over 25 years experience in all manners of record production Very competitive rates     -LIVE TRACKING We have a live room with two isolation booths, and can accommodate any reasonably-sized live band. We have several tube guitar amps, a great bass amp, as well as a great sounding drum kit. The drums are always set up, ready to go. All the booths and spaces have HUGE pieces of glass in them, so eye contact is not at all compromised for the sake of acoustical isolation. Our headphone system allows the musicians themselves to tweak the mix as they wish. A winning combination of pro engineers and top-shelf equipment makes getting professional results guaranteed. And, as a studio that has been functioning full time for sixteen years, set up time is mercifully short. NYC Studio Pics   Our new Woodstock, NY facility has a larger live room, a 12-foot cathedral ceiling with skylight, and oak floor. There are also two large booths, each with a panoramic view of the rest of the room. There is a 7'6" concert hall quality Yamaha C7 Grand piano, as well as a Hammond B3 with Leslie cabinet. As in the NYC studio, each musician has their own headphone box that allows them to adjust the mix to their liking. All this makes for a great environment for bands (or solo acts) to get away from their regular life and just work on the music for a few days. We also have a 16' x 32' pool (with a diving board!), as well as seventy acres of woods in back of the studio. All in all, a really fun place to record. Woodstock is a one and a half hour drive from the George Washington Bridge, and there is a bus from the Port Authority as well. Woodstock Studio Pics   -OVERDUBS We have all the great mics, micpreamps, and compressors. Our Equipment List reads like a "Who's Who" in the high-end equipment world. Our hard disk-based systems use only top-notch analog-to-digital convertors. Our Neumann Tube U47 - Neve 1066 MicPre/EQ (or John Hardy, Summit Tube, or Demeter Tube Micpreamps), through the Summit Mono Tube Compressor (or Urei LA3A Compressor), is a vocal signal path second to none. If you need a fantastic vocal sound such as you have heard on the best sounding CDs in your collection, we have it.   -MIXING Most mixing these days is computer-assisted, with full automation of every aspect of the mix under computer control. This means that you can literally mix from session-to-session, even mix while still in the overdub stage. This allows you to be able to listen to your mixes at home, "off the clock", and be able to pick up exactly where you left off at your next session. I call it "Incremental Mixing", and I consider this the be among the biggest improvements in making records in the twenty-five years I have been involved in recording. This also means that if you take home what you might think is a "final" mix, and you find something you wish to change, you can return for a short session and change ONLY THAT ONE THING, and everything else will remain the same. Making records doesn't have to be stressful anymore.   If you are recording at home, and want some information on how we can help you maximize what you have already started, check out our page on HOME STUDIO SERVICES.   For those who wish to do a full-blown analog console mix, we have a great mix environment for that too. We have a VERY large console (DDA model AMR24, more console info, click here), with 84 channels with faders on mix. We have a ton of high end outboard, which includes 17 compressor/limiters, several high-end reverb units (two Lex 300's), Eventide Harmonizer, Lexicon PCM70, Yamaha SPX1000, and more, five dedicated delays (including two Lexicon PCM41's), etc. A Leslie 147 Organ Cabinet can also be patched into the mixing console. The console can handle the 2" 24-trk machine, and as many hard-disk or adat tracks you can throw at it AT THE SAME TIME. We can trigger new or additional drums sounds from drum tracks on tape. MIDI tracks synced to tape playback during mix? No Problem. If your budget won't allow for a Neve or SSL room, this is the next best thing...   Most of our work for the past several years has been mixing. WE ARE A GREAT MIX STUDIO.   -MASTERING FOR CD (AND VINYL) We have a full-time mastering facility here. Hundreds and hundreds of CDs (and vinyl!) have been mastered here. Check our page on MASTERING.   -LIVE RECORDING Yes, we can come to your concert or gig and record you. We can accommodate pretty much whatever you might have in mind. We can do a simple live to two-track recording, or a full-blown multi-track recording, which would allow you to "mix" it later, as well as do some degree of editing and "fixing". If you wish to work on the tracks yourself, we can supply the tracks to you in whatever format you wish: 2" tape, Pro Tools files, ADAT, etc. Having recorded concerts in clubs, halls, churches, and even Lincoln Center, no project is too big or too complex.   -ORGAN & PIANO In Woodstock, we have a Hammond B3 and Leslie 147. They are in perfect operating condition, and sound fantastic. So good, in fact, that many organ trio records have been cut on them.   Also in Woodstock, we have a Yamaha C7, a 7'6" concert grand piano. It's an absolutely top-notch, concert hall quality piano. If you need to do piano recording and need a piano of extremely high caliber, this is it.   -CD DUPLICATION -We can do runs of any size of your finished (or demo) recording project, complete with full color photos and/or graphics right on the disc. All with a usual turnaround time of only a day or two. -We can make CDROM (or DVD) backups of your important audio and graphics files.   -SERVICES FOR HOME STUDIOS  -Many people are doing recording projects at home these days. For musicians doing simple demos, this is a great technological advance. For those wanting to add more quality to their finished project, we offer various services. CLICK HERE for more info...      The NYC studio is located in Tribeca, just off Broadway, a few blocks south of Canal Street.   The Woodstock studio is located in Woodstock, NY, just eight miles from exit 19 on the New York State Thruway, an hour-and-a-half drive from the George Washington Bridge. There is also a bus from the Port Authority.       Comments or questions? click to - Email the studio!