Mischief Recording Studio

10/30/2021

Hey guys......I know it's been a while since I've posted. Been super busy. 2 new projects just finished as of late. New blues CD from Ernie Pen*ston. "These Blues". Great project! Also a new CD from siner/songwriter Daniel Stratman."Sweet Seranade" I'll be posting snippets from both projects shortly. STAY TUNED!!!

08/09/2021

Hey ya'll.....running a special beginning in October. 10 song project for $2k. Thats a great deal! Come and get it. Visit the studio at www.mischifstudo.com or come see it in person. Give me a call at 563.299.9123 for an appointment to see the studio, listen to other projects we've done, and make your studio bookings! Have your procect ready before Christmas!!!

05/19/2021

Just finishing up tonight with the final touch ups on Ernie Pen*ston's new CD, "These Blues". CD should be out soon. It's really a great project and I know that we're all proud of it and getting to be part of it. Kick ass blues CD. Pick one up from Ernie, or I'm sure he'll have a note out on his page saying where you can get it. Enjoy!

04/11/2021

Great session today with Daniel Stratman. Working on a new album project with him and it's going to be a great project. Keep watching for more information and when it's done, will let you all know where to purchase it.
Also have Ernie Pen*ston coming in tomorrow to listen to the final cuts for his project. We'll be listening especially to the background vocal tracks my lovely wife laid down. This will be a powerful blues album you won't want to miss out on! Stay tuned!!!

11/06/2020

Hey Everyone! My new CD, Merle, Mel, and Me is is still for sale and I have some left before I need to place another order! Please contact me if you would like to purchase a copy! Price is $12 and I will ship it to you free of charge! Would make a great Christmas gift for a country music lover. Sales are going very well and getting good reviews! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did creating the project! Have a healthy and safe day! Parke

07/13/2020

Hey Everyone! My new CD, Merle, Mel, and Me is HERE! Please contact me if you would like to purchase a copy! Cost is $12 and I will ship it to you free of charge! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did creating the project! Have a healthy and safe day! Parke

05/19/2020

Hi guys! Well.....FINALLY the CD is done and ready to be sent to the mastering house and then to replication and packaging. Should be seeing a shipment in about 3 weeks. I've been looking forward to this for about a year now. If anyone would like to reserve a copy, Please message me. Price is $12 and if you need the CD mailed to you, I'll pick up the cost of shipping. The album title is "Merle, Mel, and Me" and is a compilation of mostly my Hero Merle Haggard songs plus one of my favorite songs from Mel Street. I'm very proud of all the work all the musicians and backing vocal singers did on this project. It's been a long road, but the light is at the end of the tunnel. Also want to give a shout out to Laura Darting Studio for the great photos. She is an extremely talented photographer. And a HUGE tip of the hat to my son Travis for the graphics and artwork he did on the CD Cover, liner notes and back of the CD jacket. His dad is going to help him panel the inside of one of his garages for his time and talent. A huge amount of gratitude to all that had a part in my dream project!!!! Words aren't enough. Parke

03/24/2020

OK...It's been a while since I posted anything. My new CD "Merle, Mel, and Me" is nearly completed. Just some touch ups to do on the lead vocals and one drum track to re-do. Photo shoot done, cover photo chosen. Need to choose photo for the back cover. Then it's off to my Son, Travis McConnaha to do the artwork and text that I need to compose yet. It's been a long road getting the to end, but we're seeing light at the end of the tunnel. Going to try to do a couple vocal touch ups tomorrow night if my voice feels up to it. It's been a busy couple of weeks with the Corona Virus causing my day job management to keep people that can work from home, out of the office and working from home. I seem to be putting in more hours from home than I ever do when I'm in the office. Of course VPN is a bit slower than being in the office also. But we'll get thru this and hopefully my family and yours will endure without any illness. Will try to continue to post more often until the CD is sent off for mastering,replication and packaging. If anyone would like to pre-order a CD, let me know and I'll put you on the list. Cost will be $12.00 and there are 11 songs on the CD. I'm pretty proud of the outcome of the last year's worth of work on this. Scheduling session players, practicing drum parts, guitar parts, and vocals seems like all I've done between other sessions and projects, plus keeping mama happy doing little projects around the house (which I procrastinate for weeks or months before finishing them). Hope you all like the CD. If you like classic country, you should enjoy this project! Hope you like it as much as I LOVED working on it. A big thanks to all the people that worked on this from session players and background singers to Laura Darting Photography to Travis McConnaha and "KTBF" for doing the artwork. Hope I haven't left anyone out. Stay tuned for more in a day or two! Sorry again for not posting for such a long time! And SUPORT LIVE MUSIC in your area! There are a lot of great musicians out there to go listen to when the venues open back up again! Stay well all!!!!
Parke

09/19/2019

Hi all you music lovers. Just a quick note to let you all know that my project, Merle, Mel, and Me, is getting closer to reality. All the scratch tracks are complete. Final drum tracks, acoustic guitar tracks, and scratch vocals are ready for the pickers to come in and do their magic. The final piano and string parts are complete thanks to my friend and brother Mr. David Sulzberger, monster pianist and keyboardist. Next up will be Mr. Ron Conkin to put his magic fingers to the guitar tracks. Following that will be Mr. Dennis Detweiler on pedal steel laying all of his great, sweet, and edgy tracks and Ms. Jeanne Morrison to lay the solid bottom on the bass tracks. Jeanne has a touch on the country bass that make the rhythm tracks as solid as they come. Jeanne will also be singing harmony vocals which lends her voice to great smooth harmonies. Following all this will be my turn to lay the final lead vocal tracks and then I'll be getting to work on the editing, mixing and mastering of the tracks to make the project complete. Somewhere in this very busy time will be a photo shoot for the CD and me composing the liner notes, then the replication of the CD's. So I'm hoping for a November release. Just in time to go on sale for Christmas! If anyone wants a copy of the CD, you can email me at [email protected] or call me on me cell at 563.299.9123 and we'll get you set up with a CD. So take care everyone and we'll post something again in the next few days. More exciting things to come. Also still waiting for the files to be returned to me for Mr. Ernie Pen*ston's new blues project so we can move on with this fabulous project. When it comes to blues, there is nothing like the voice of Ernie. He's played to audiences all over Europe and the U.S. One of the most powerful voices in the blues field that I've ever heard. He's one of a kind. Stay tuned folks.....good things to come!

12/26/2018

Hey ya'll. Been quite a busy season. Working on three separate CD projects and some fill in work when possible. First of all, finishing a three year project with Dane Nealson. Gonna be a fine project for Dane. Looking forward to hearing finishing up the mxing and mastering. Also still working on the acoustic project with James Miller which is a very exiting new spin on metal tunes they've done in the past, only a very good acoustic version of the songs. Pretty bad ass! Finally, have been working on a great new blues project with Ernie Pen*ston. This is going to be a KICK ASS project for brother Ernest T. Great players from all over the U.S.A. on this project. Right now, I'm waiting on the keyboard and horn parts to come from Mr. David Sulzberger then we can start mixing and moving ahead with all the vocals. It's been an exiting year at Mischief Studio! Can't wait to hear what we'll be doing in 2019. Stay tuned!!!!!

06/07/2016

I have the honor of working with a bunch of young people from Burma (now named Myanmar) the last few weeks working on a praise and worship project. They actually live and work in Columbus Jct. IA, but have come here from Burma. Outside of the language barrier it's been a blast. We did an album of 12 songs with four singers plus a choir of about 16. Came out great. The vocals from these sessions will be (have already been) sent back to a Burmese studio to be mixed with the band tracks (very talented Burmese musicians) and will be released worldwide in the coming months. From what I understand, their leader, Ester Sung does a lot of songwriting for herself and others and wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on their project. After researching a bit, I've discovered that she is a pretty BIG DEAL in Burma, and has several CD's and music videos out. After doing the choir of P&W songs, they asked me to do the vocals on a project of a group they simply call "Trio". This project has now been recorded and will soon be on it's way back to Burma for mixing, mastering and worldwide release on a pretty large scale. Of course the targeted audience will be Burmese people as both of the projects are in Burmese. I just wanted to say that it's been a pleasure working with these young people. They are the some of the most respectful, and genuinely nice people I've ever worked with. If you'd like, please go to Youtube and check out: Esther van Hnem Sung. She has a very good voice as do the other two in the trio. Their names if I can get them right are Zung Hei and Dawt Len Zing. i may be a bit incorrect on those names, but I'm not very versed at Burmese. I will be getting copies of the final CD once it's released, and will post snippets of some of the songs they have done. Good Stuff. Next up, working on a new music bed and jingle for CBI Bank and Trust. Kind of fun. I haven't done one of these in a while. Just waiting for Mr. Davis Sulzberger to send me back the files of the piano track. Guitar, Bass, and drum tracks laid, and voice over talent track laid. Should work out very well. Then back to work on editing and mixing a new project by Dane Nealson with all my great session players backing him up along with some of Danes friends doing duets and backing vocals with him. This post has turned out to be a mini-book. Sorry about that. I just haven't posted anything in quite some time. Hope all of you have a great summer. I'll try to be better about posting in the future when time allows!

03/10/2015

Hey all....Been a busy fella this past week. Got in a new Mac Pro, Sidecar, a new Avid Focusrite C24 console, and updating to Pro Tools 11 (probably 12 after it's been out a while. Also two new 24 inch displays and new CD burner. Have been installing it with just a couple of hiccups from my supplier Sweetwater Music. I'm only short a couple of cables which they are kind enough to send to me FEDEX overnite and I'll have them tomorrow. I brough Pro Tools 11 up tonight to just take a look at it and just by a short view of it, there is a LOT of new stuff to learn and pick up. The console is pretty similar to my old one, but a few things in different locations. Will take a few sessions to get used to everything. LOTS AND LOTS omore plug ins too!. So tell your friends and all the musicians you know to book some studio time soon. The recordings will just be better an better! Looking forward to it. Even if you just want to come in and take a look, please feel free. Just give me a call first to make sure I'm going to be here. My cell # is 563.299.9123 and the studio # is 563.263.7686. Email us at: [email protected]
Thanks to everyone that's supported the studio over the last 11 years. I can't believe that much time has gone by already!!!! And many more years to come!

11/09/2014

OK....I FINALLY did had time to do it! Here is the first link of artist snippets that we've done in the past few months. Takes a while to put all this together, so give the link a try and let me know what you think! Thanks a bunch sports fans! http://youtu.be/IgKAtZAPcxg

Artists Dane Nealson and Amber Brown 2014. Like them on Facebook "Dane and Amber"

07/11/2014

Check us out in a few days. I'll have some snippets of the last couple of projects we've done. Country artists Amber Brown and Dane Nealson's project called " We'll Get It Right", and a new project from singer songwriter Hispanic contemporary Christian artist Edgar Solis. Both of these projects have some GREAT music. We're pround to have been a part of both projects! Stay tuned.

07/11/2014

ok....Tomorrow, July 12. we'll start with getting drums dialed in for the upcoming project with Rm 212 starting to record on Sunday, 7-13. Great rock band. Should be an interesting project from start to finish. Come on guys, let's do this!!!

04/08/2014

Well, here I go again not posting anything in a while. Amber and Dane were in a couple weeks ago finishing up the final vocals on their project. Keep watching for some snipptets of thier latest project. Not sure what the title is going to be yet. They'll be doing their photo shoot soon also.
Also had Kaitlin and Courtney Stice in a couple weekends to do thier yearly session project. I'm working on editing and mixing now and should have the mixes done by the weekend. Burning the candle at both ends! You all have a great day and keep watching our page!

03/22/2014

Hey all. Sorry I haven't posted anything lately. The old P.C. here in the studio decided to get a cold and sniffles and was to the computer doctor for about a week. Tomorrow, Saturday 3-22 we will be working on final vocals for Dane and Ambers upcoming CD project. If anyone would like to purchase one of these CD's , let me know and I'll hook you up. Lots of good country, country rock tunes on this album, most of which are never released songs penned by some great writers. Dane even penned one of the tunes being released called " World Problems". Solid country tune with some nice dobro work by Dennis Detweiler. David Sulzberger on Keys also lights up the ivories on these tunes along with Sean Dortons solid and very tasteful work on drums. Lots of folks contributed to this project and Dane and Ambers' pure vocals and tight harmonies shine to round out the 12 tunes on this project. Not sure what the titile of the project will be yet, but shortly they'll be doing the photo shoot while I'm finishing up the editing and mixing. Fun, Fun project! Get 'em while they're hot. I'll most likely be posting some snippets from some of their tunes shortly! Sunday is the second day for my 17 year old Kaitlin Stice, along with her sister Courtney. That sisterly blend and Kaitlin's acoustic guitar performances are gonna be great as always. They have been recording projects with me for several years now and it's great to hear how they have matured vocally over the years. Great stuff!!! Kaitlin will be headed for college in Nashville this fall to major in Music Business and will work toward a singing career. Currently, Courtney wants to be a Neonatal Nurse. Go Kaitlin and Courtney!!!! Two very talented girls! Love them and younger sister Jessica and their folks Don and Betty Stice! Great clients that have turned into wonderful freinds! Have a great weekend everyone! I'll be in front of the console slaving away.

10/01/2013

Well, we're back from the wedding in Chicago. Time for me to lay some guitar tracks on Amber and Dane's tunes. Just a couple I need to do and we'll be near ready for them to finish lead, harmony and background vocals.!! Gotta get the guitar parts done, because I'm having shoulder surgery on Oct. 10. So no guitar playing for about 6 weeks. GRRRR.....