greyfade studio

06/29/2021

on location at yamaha piano salon in midtown recording dan tepfer, eric harland, jorge roeder.

mobile 24-channel rig over dante, with individual headphone mixers via hearback.

05/26/2021

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greyfade studio's new location in mount vernon, ny is now open and booking sessions!

https://www.greyfadestudio.com/

the studio features 3 spaces: a control room designed for mixing & mastering, a live room for tracking small ensembles or solo instruments, and an isolation booth for vocals, amplifiers, or solo instruments that need separation. all 3 rooms were masterfully designed by jim keller of sondhus , carefully balancing acoustics, functionality, sightlines, & aesthetics.

the mixing & mastering room is centered around the barefoot micromain 27 speaker. it provides easy access to our analog outboard collection, including vintage pieces from neve, urei, & api, as well as modern tube & solid state units, analog summing mixers, and outboard effects, plus 4 channels of send/returns dedicated to guitar pedals & modular processing.

the live room is big enough to fit a guitar trio, or small chamber group, but is also a perfect place for singer-songwriters or solo musicians who want to spread out. acoustically, the room is dry & crisp-sounding, but not at all dead — drums and guitars sound really great in there.

instruments include nodar rode custom drum kit, 1969 musser m55 vibraphone, fender rhodes, various analog synths, vintage fender amps, etc. mic collection includes chandler redd tube mic and classics from rca, neumann, aea, coles, royer, and schoeps. the headphone monitoring system is a 16-channel hearback pro. the iso booth has large sightline into both the live room & control room. there are also a couple other options for isolation via the studio's dante network, if needed.

for more info, rates, and availability, email us at: [email protected].

now back to making records!

greyfade studio is a private recording, mixing, and mastering studio located just north of new york city. it is owned & operated by grammy-nominated recording engineer, producer, and musician joseph branciforte.

06/05/2020

two new tim berne records, recorded live in 2009/10, are out today.

adobe probe / tim berne, marc ducret, chris speed, shane endsley, michael formanek, dan weiss.

1 / tim berne & matt mitchell

links to bandcamp below.

04/21/2020

this excellent live record from Shai Maestro, Arthur Hnatek, & co. (recorded at the The Jazz Gallery last year) is out now!

01/12/2020

first time working with naxos records.

edited, mixed & mastered this recording from composer paul moravec & the oratorio society at carnegie hall.

Sanctuary Road is out now! Written by composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell, this oratorio tells the story of William Still, a prominent figure in the Underground Railroad, as well as some of the people he helped escape to freedom.

Featuring powerful performances from Oratorio Society of New York and soloists Laquita Mitchell Soprano, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Joshua Blue, Tenor, Malcolm J. Merriweather, and Dashon Burton, Bass-Baritone, this incredible recording is available now on Spotify, Apple Music, and more: https://Naxos.lnk.to/SanctuaryRoadFA

01/01/2020

nice to see ben monder's "day after day" on Wilco's 2019 recommendation list!

disc 1 mixed at greyfade studio last year.

https://benmonder.bandcamp.com/album/day-after-day

12/09/2019

mixing Neil Leonard's 'sonance', an LP version of his 2019 installation at williams college.

11/18/2019

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sound + process, episode 19:

Joseph Branciforte is a multi-instrumentalist, recording & mixing engineer, composer, sound artist, and programmer who explores the intersection between improvisation & composition through algorithmic means.

https://soundcloud.com/sound-and-process/ep_19

10/29/2019

engineering a remote session of art songs in nyc... always fun to figure out how to translate the sound of a space into the recorded medium.

if you're looking to make recording in an alternate space or venue around nyc, feel free to get in touch. the mobile rig can accommodate up to 32 channels now, with a wide selection of great microphones / preamps.

http://josephbranciforte.com/location_recording.html

10/27/2019

mixing some new video + audio pieces from @florentghys at the studio today.

10/10/2019

The Understated Appeal of Ben Monder - JazzTimes

great article on ben, whose albums "day after day" (disc 1) and "hydra" were mixed here.

Ben Monder is not a showy guitarist, but the first thing you notice is his sheer lyricism. Learn more on Monder, whose latest album is "Day After Day."

10/08/2019

listening to playbacks from nice guitar + percussion session recorded here the other day.

09/18/2019

new compressor just in... highland dynamics bg2!

09/03/2019

Displace, by Olli Hirvonen

new album from guitarist Olli Hirvonen on Ropeadope Records, mixed/mastered here this spring.

https://ollihirvonen.bandcamp.com/album/displace

7 track album

08/13/2019

Studio Hang | Ep. 5 | Greyfade (Part 1)

greyfade studio was recently featured on red panda's "studio hang" series.

here's part 1 of an interview w/ Joseph Branciforte discussing engineering/mixing philosophy and some of the most used pieces of gear at the studio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgtkv9TWCmM

PART ONE Joseph Branciforte is a multi-instrumentalist, recording & mixing engineer, composer, and sound artist based out of New York City. He is the founder...

06/05/2019

busy last week here at the studio, mixing/mastering new projects for Elliot Cooper Cole, Mara Rosenbloom, Gina Izzo, Flin van Hemmen, and Noah Rott.

04/13/2019

ben monder's new double-album is out now.

disc 1, a collection of solo guitar arrangements, was recorded by Joseph Branciforte at brooklyn recording and mixed here at the studio in 2018.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/arts/music/ben-monder-david-torn.html

https://benmonder.bandcamp.com/album/day-after-day

02/24/2019

soundcheck for a live recording tonight... w/ Shai Maestro Arthur Hnatek Ari Bragi Karason & Rick Rosato.

02/21/2019

Level-Or MK2 Limiter

check out Joseph's Tape Op review of the Standard Audio Level-Or MKII... an essential piece of gear used here for drum & room mic destruction.

https://tapeop.com/reviews/gear/129/level-or-mk2-limiter

Tape Op is a free magazine exclusively about recording music. Subscribe (yep, for free) at tapeop.com.

02/09/2019

The New York Times had some nice words for Drew Williams' Wing Walker Music large ensemble record "Hazel", mixed/mastered here last year (link below).

Brian Krock's Liddle was mixed/mastered here as well and is out in April!

02/04/2019

HOLON Trio

the old cassette-recorder-as-outboard trick!

Lots of fun in Josephs greyfade studio using a good ol tape recorder!! The records gonna be liiiit 📼💥

01/07/2019

reamping guitars w/ Olli Hirvonen.

01/03/2019

mastering upcoming releases from caroline davis & hiroshi ebina.

11/30/2018

60-channel location recording at BAM last night.

11/02/2018

mixing sidecar for simon jermyn/charlotte greve record. getting modular and pedals into the action via radial reamp.

10/06/2018

recording an album for grammy-winning pianist eliane elias on location at the yahama piano showroom.

09/05/2018

one year ago today: recording kurt rosenwinkel quintet live at the village vanguard. looks like this material should be seeing the light of day soon!

more info on mobile recording here:
http://josephbranciforte.com/location_recording.html

08/14/2018

some new analog flavors for mixdown!

urei 1178, chandler tg-1 / ltd-1, distressor el8x, thermionic culture vulture, api 560

06/25/2018

Evanescent, by Hiroshi Ebina

beautiful ambient record from Tokyo-based artist Hiroshi Ebina, mastered here in april.

4 track album

06/20/2018

Its Torso Smears Right As ▙ ▚ ▛ ▜ ▟, by BlankFor.ms

super cool electronic EP, mastered here last year.

Tyler Gilmore / Not Art Records

5 track album

05/01/2018

joseph branciforte + theo bleckmann recording a duo album here last week.

12/20/2017

Kate Gentile's "Mannequins" album, mixed here last year, made the NPR Music Jazz Critics' Best Music of 2017. Congrats Kate & crew!

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/12/20/571631251/the-2017-npr-music-jazz-critics-poll

12/15/2017

guitar overdubs with nir felder, continued.

12/10/2017

brought a new pair of aea r44 micrphones out to st. peter's church in midtown to record Argento New Music Project last week. listening to the playbacks today, and the verdict is: this is one huge, opulent, and smooth sounding mic!

11/23/2017

guitar + synth overdubs with nir felder.