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Professional music studio offering production, mixing, & mastering for artists, tv & film.

15/05/2025

New head of security at CCM.

02/05/2025

We won a Peabody Award!!

Huge congratulations to .isham & all the rest of the team ❤️

29/04/2025

Gear Chronicles Part 6 ~

Some mic pres here. 2 channel BAE 1073 MPF for when I want a whole lotta color, and a Focusrite ISA 828 for when I want something more transparent. Both in the Neve vein, if I need API or something with “tubes” I just use the Apollo x8p. I don’t do too much live band tracking these days so I’ve kinda pared down my front end to just handle what I need, which is usually just overdubs / add-prod situations.
I use the Focusrite mainly for synths and keyboards, I’ll sometimes use the BAE for that but I usually find it’s a bit too much. I do especially like it on toms as well.
The BAE is a beast on just about anything. I mean it’s a 1073… guitars, bass, vocals, strings, drums, hot air balloons, giraffes etc etc. Nothing sounds more like rock than a 57 right up on the grill of a guitar amp into a 1073. To my ears BAE makes the most faithful emulations of the original units, with the Carnhill St. Ives transformers and Elma switches and whatnot.
Lastly some Switchcraft patchbays up above the pres. Durable little units, and I probably wouldn’t trust many other brands with that job. Best part about them is you can clean the jacks by just rotating the cam screw, I do love that.

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21/04/2025

If you mix live drums do yourself a favor and get this. Total life saver when it comes to time & phase issues, comb-filtering, transient smearing etc.

18/04/2025

Gear Chronicles Part 5!

No piece of gear matters more than monitors really, and even the nicest monitors mean nothing in a terrible room. That’s why I love my Genelec 8340A 6.5” near-fields and the 7360A 300W Sub - with Genelec’s GLM calibration system built into them.

No one likes sitting in a room for days and running calibration sweeps - checking readouts - moving a speaker or desk 1 inch, and repeating that over and over and over again until you’re +/- 5 db of flat - but that’s what it takes to have a professionally accurate room. With the GLM software though, Genelec makes that process so much more precise and streamlined… World class calibration algorithms and software, NATIVE speaker calibration software, automatic phase alignment with the sub, the fact that you can store the calibration correction eq & time alignment inside the speakers - set it and forget it, and now that they have the 30+ page GRADE report? Filled with every graph and waterfall plot that Room EQ Wizard has and more? Forget it. Call me a fan boy because I love my Gennys!

The monitors themselves sound extremely detailed, transparent, neutral.. and the stereo imaging (especially after the GLM time alignment) is incredibly precise. All the things you want for mixing and mastering. I remember putting on classic records when I first calibrated em and hearing things I never heard before, things I felt like I wasn’t even supposed to hear! Mistakes almost!

Big shoutout to Paul over at for all the help over the years as I’ve dialed in a few different rooms. Always willing to take a phone call and go over the readouts and offer tips when I need em. I promise this room I’m in now was the last one Paul. :)

14/04/2025

Busy week, vocal editing today, mixing a few tracks, mastering a few tracks, grateful as always for all the work.

07/04/2025

Gear Chronicles Part 4!

Starting with the Dangerous Monitor ST plus Remote in later pics- a lotta times companies will sacrifice quality in the monitoring path to meet a price point, and that’s a shame. With the Monitor ST there is none of that. The volume control is a relay-actuated stepped analog attenuator made from audiophile grade components implemented into a zero compromise analog signal path. So no affecting frequency response at different volume levels, no noise introduced, no tone-sucking digital level controls. You just get crystal clear, accurate sonics at any volume level, no coloring of the sound or skewing of the stereo image. Removes any kind of guesswork. It’s another one of those non-flashy pieces of gear in the background that makes the flashy gear worth it.

Apollo x16 and x8p - my two main tracking converters / interfaces. I bought into the UAD ecosystem over a decade ago and never once regretted drinking that kool-aid. Love the console workflow, love never worrying about latency or CPU when tracking and mixing, and love the UAD plugins. Hands down the best hardware emulations out there.

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03/04/2025

Got this cool instrument as a gift from my wife for Christmas. It’s a Gusle, or Lahuta, from the Balkans. Still looking for a bow to play it with. I’m sure it’ll make an appearance on some track someday.

27/03/2025

Gear Chronicles Part 3!

Starting from the bottom this time with the Dangerous 2 Bus+ Summing Mixer. I love mixing into this thing. Gives me that big analog console feel in a mix. Depending on the song I’ll dial up as much or as little color as needed with the transformer k**b. I usually default to it around 10 o’clock and just mix into that, hit it harder or softer to taste… Without going into a too many vague sound descriptors, I’ll just say - I mix in the box and out the box, and when I go out into this I immediately hear the difference. It just sits things differently in the stereo image, things feel more like a record, if you will. I love all the outboard here but nothing sounds as awesome or is more satisfying than just mixing into this with the transformer in, and just pushing into it until you hit that sweet spot where it’s cooking just right.

500 series rack from left to right- a pair of Rupert Neve 542’s! Deadly little units. Great for mixing & tracking. Main use for me is in a mastering scenario- sometimes I’ll blend in the tape circuit, and then of course the legendary silk circuits get used often. Red silk adds a beautiful saturation to the high mids, blue silk adds some to the low mids. More often if I do engage those it’s the red, but blue has its moments too.

Some Rupert Neve 551’s - these pretty much live on a certain drum bus chain, love em for tracking too.

A pair of Pultec EQP 500x’s - what can I say they’re Pultecs, they’re awesome.

Then a BAE 500c - great 1176 emulation, everything BAE makes is great. This 500 series rack is BAE too and that was chosen for a reason.

On top the SSL Fusion, very fun piece of gear. Drums, vocal busses come to mind. Love the vintage drive. I use the Fusion when mastering but almost always it’s only the HF Comp, Stereo Image, and Xformer circuits that get auditioned. And then I’ll throw the BAX into the Wes Audio nG Compressor on the insert. Really that design idea to not include a compressor in the fusion and instead just have the insert loop was genius, keeps it more flexible.

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24/03/2025

Winter & into spring up here at Cherry Creek. All the best to everyone.

22/07/2024

Excited to announce that Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. has been nominated for TWO EMMY Awards this year!

“Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series”

“Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction Program”

So grateful that Cherry Creek got to mix Sultana Isham’s original score for this series.

Congrats to .isham , , everyone at and all the rest of the crew!

❤️❤️❤️

19/03/2024

We won the TV Premier Audience Award! Thank you to everyone at SXSW for voting for us. Can’t wait for the rest of the world to be able to watch this series, coming soon to .

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