Veneto West - Studio & Label

01/12/2024

As many of you know, I am relocating the studio to the east coast in March, but my California room will be set up for mixing and mastering work until the end of February.

01/06/2024

Only about 10 more days for women in audio and music production to apply for the Selkie Scholarship for the Cacapehon recording and songwriting retreat. Please share with any women you think might be interested.

Registration for the Selkie Scholarship opened on October 10, 2023 and will close on January 15, 2024. You can access the application here. If you would like to support the Selkie Scholarship, please visit the GoFundMe page. Now in its third year, the Selkie Scholarship supports women* that show out...

12/15/2023

A Big Change Announcement. Moving to the East Coast!

Liz and I always say that the big tree (Bella) had plans for us.

We have some pretty big news. We have just closed on a new property and will be leaving California for the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. We have spent 7 years in this beautiful California town. Liz and I both love California and the amazing community we have here, but a huge range of factors, after the tree destroyed our home, made us decide that this move is the right thing. Almost by accident, we discovered the town of Williamstown, MA, an area whose beauty rivals what we have been spoiled by in California, and we fell in love with the area and town immediately. It is extremely rural (It is the area where Norman Rockwell lived and painted), but it is also one of the great centers of art in the United States. One of the country’s best impressionist art collections is in our local Museum (The Clark Institute) we are also about 14 minutes away from the largest contemporary art museum in North America. (Mass MOCA), we are about 30 minutes from Tanglewood as well as the Jacobs Pillow center for dance. There is so much art, music, theater and dance in the area all year, that it is hard to wrap our heads around it.

We found a cool old Farm from the late 1800s with a couple barns, right on a beautiful golf course. The second green is at the end of our property. One of the barns is already renovated with a good spot for the studio, with room for future expansion (including a photo studio). One of the motivating factors for the move and choosing this place is for my business. In the new place, I will finally have my own space for full band tracking again, and plenty of space to start doing my one week “Recording Boot Camp” intensives again. It is also going to make it a lot easier to work with many of my clients on the east coast. It is kind of out in the middle of nowhere, but we will just over 2.5 hours from Boston and 4 hours from Montreal, New York, New Jersey, etc. 75 miles from Woodstock… So, easy for me to get to meetings and events in the city, and a pretty easy drive for clients to make it out to the farm.

We will be doing the move in stages over the next few months. Liz will still be working for a California based organization, and we have lots of business and family reasons to be back in California fairly often.

Liz and I both love, and will miss California, but the new move is really exciting.

12/10/2023

If you have ever dreamed of building a house on land where lots of great records were made....now is your chance. The lot from the old house is up for sale. We priced it low and already seem to have some offers coming in, but no deals yet.

This is a Vacant Land. It is located at 2221 Symonds Dr, Pine Mountain Club, CA.

12/08/2023

Does anyone in SoCal know a tech that can work on a Rivera TBR-2SL? I have tried a couple techs but they won't work on it. I have been trying to arrange with Rivera to try and work on it for half a year, but no luck. I am wondering if they are out of business or something (which would be a shame because they are such a great amp company). I am trying to get it back in shape after the studio disaster. It survived but is not working right. Any tips would be appreciated.

09/04/2021

The A Designs Nail is one of my favorite hardware tools for clean and transparent gain reduction. It is the perfect thing for a few run away spikes on this dub track I am mastering.

06/24/2021

Apple is rolling out Spatial Audio in a way that is disrespectful to artists, producers, engineers and most importantly the fans. Please sign the petition to get them to change that. http://chng.it/FD6RQN6H

06/15/2021

I am turning off spatial audio in Apple Music (A professional audio engineer's perspective).

05/16/2021

I also got to produce and mix this one.

03/25/2021

"Horse, Zanthus!", the new single from guitarist Ronan Chris Murphy featuring Tony Levin on Chapman Stick, Victor Bisetti on percussion, Mike Keneally on Fender Rhodes, and Pat Mastelotto on Drums. Check out the latest single on Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/track/37gipvMO3dhhtQGh5Yewfv?si=Jn5INO9FRJiMsU4_hB04SQ

01/23/2021

Funky track getting some tube love on this mastering project.

09/14/2020

Veneto West Records is proud to announce the first release from out "Storia" series. The amazing album by the Icelandic band Soundspell. https://venetowest.com/record-label/soundspell-an-ode-to-the-umbrella/

Soundspell – An Ode to the Umbrella This release is part of the Veneto West – Storia series. 100% of net proceeds from sales of Veneto West – Storia releases support The Cancer Support Community of Los Angeles. Soundspell grew out of the vibrant Reykjavik, Iceland music scene and combined th...

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09/14/2020

11/11/2018

I am mastering string quartet albums for two different artists this weekend. I am really happy to have the A Designs Hammer 2 and Maag EQ2 as options for "air EQ" duties.

12/28/2017

Mastering with Ronan Chris Murphy at Veneto West: GWAR, Mafia III, Get Out score album, Nels Cline & G.E. Stinson, KuLokkCall, Dave Nachmanoff, King Crimson. Indie friendly rates. https://venetowest.com/mastering/

11/30/2017

I loved the original A Designs Hammer, but the 30K shelf on the Hammer 2 opens up a whole new world of options in my analog mastering rack.