Southern Sound Studio

08/08/2019

Wanted to share my friend & Dancehall Artist Mooremantic ! He sent the melody & lyrics from New York, and did all the music here at Southern Sound Studio with live instruments! This is our third long distance recording production (California, and Singapore!), & everyone is very excited about it!!
Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watchv=4DpH_SKp4Hk&feature=youtu.be

Music video by Mooremantic performing "Lie"(C) 2019

07/25/2019

See what makes this studio such a special place to do audio recording!

07/25/2019

The fact that I’ve been very busy, mostly in the studio, is a lousy excuse for not posting. So……….
I have been doing a lot of my specialty, which is is fine-tuning pitch and time for both vocals and instruments. This is invaluable in production and engineering, as now artists I work with sound so good! To hear the time & pitch work done with The Brass Ring brass quintet:
https://brassringquintet.com/about-us/sample-page/
Will be posting more on our studio site:
www.southernsoundstudio.com

NOTE: For the best experience, please use high quality speakers or headphones while listening. Recording Credits: Trumpets – Doug Ritchie, Walter McBride; French horn – Dave Helfrich; T…

06/13/2019

Here's a partial list of some of the musicians we've had the pleasure of recording:
Warren Haynes (Allman Bros, Gov't Mule), Derek Trucks (Allmans, Tedeski-Trucks), Susan Tedeski (Tedeski-Trucks), Ritchie Canata (Billy Joel), Billy Harper (Horace Silver, Art Blakey), Larry Harlow (Latin Hall Of Fame), John Pattatucci & Dave Weckl (Chick Corea), Cornelius Bumpus (Doobie Brothers), Little Anthony & the Original Imperials, Jerry Jemmott (Atlantic Records House Bassist), Bernard Purdie (Atlantic Records House Drummer, Elliot Randall (Steely Dan), and hundreds more.....
If you want to sound like these folks, why not record where they have!! Give us a call !! We'll make you sound great, too!

05/17/2019

In three minutes, see what makes this studio special! BTW, Mogami is great-sounding (but very expensive) cable. We also have over 50 Neve and custom mic preamps, over 30 Classic mic's, and 24 channels of Apogee conversions!!

05/17/2019

In three minutes, see what makes this studio special! BTW, Mogami is great-sounding (but very expensive) cable. We also have over 50 Neve and custom mic preamps, over 30 Classic mic's, and 24 channels of Apogee conversions!!

04/09/2019

There are a lot of studios - why choose us? Amazing Sound + comfortable vibe = a great recording experience, regardless of past recording history!

We are wired with all Mogami (very $$$) cable - Over 50 Neve and custom preamps - Over 30 Classic mic's: Neumann U87’s, Tubes and Ribbons - The latest Pro Tools 12 version with over 130 plug-ins and Apogee converters - A 16’x16’ studio with 14’ ceilings completely sound-treated, and filled with amazing instruments - Hammond B with Leslie, Grand Piano, Yamaha Recording Series Drums used by Steely Dan, amps from Fender and Marshall….But most of all - Experience working with people from Warren Haynes (Allman Bros, Gov’t Mule), Billy Harper (Art Blakey, Horace Silver) to Bernie Worrell (P-Funk), and for SONY, EMI, WWF, and many others!

But you don’t have to be well-known to be well taken care of here!
Rates start at just $40 an hour.
See the studio and hear audio samples at:
www.southernsoundstudio.com
(727) 493-7098

If you want to hear our Chief Engineer Jeff produce, engineer, arrange, compose, sing, and play instuments on his latest CD "If You Can Impress Me..."Click Here!!!!

03/01/2019

We mike the drums with the following mics, through our custom mic pre's:
2 - Neumann U-87's (overheads)
RCA 44 DX Ribbon (room)
3 Sennheiser 441's (toms)
Share SM 57 & Sennheiser 431 (Top & bottom snare)
AKG D 112 (kick)
Beyer M260 Ribbon (Hi-hat)

Get an amazing drum sound on your kit
Or use our Yamaha Recording Custom Series
That "Gaucho" from Steely Dan was recorded with!
🥁🎵😎🎶

Send a message to learn more

03/01/2019

Legal issues, as well as recovery from brain cancer surgery, kept me off FB, and kept me home (and later at the studio), instead of allowing me to be out in public.
That will change now!
In addition for thankfulness for health recovery, the steadfast love of my family and friends (including all of you!), I have been given the following gifts:
1) A totally amazing gift of friendship and LOVE that was freely given to me by my friends, and profoundly changed my former selfish nature to one of appreciation of the love I have been given! Now my attitude is changed to “what I can do for others?” I’m now very secure in the knowledge that I will be well taken care of.
2) Gifts from the doctors who re-attached my brain, greatly increasing my harmonic hearing and understanding, pitch and time awareness, and already able to use those gifts for doing much better work on both gigs and recordings. Because I couldn’t go out in public, I devoted significant time in practicing the bass (upright and electric), and now play the way I used to (maybe better)!
I look very forward to playing with my wonderful local friends again. Feel free to contact me, in any way you want to, for gigs and/or recording sessions. If you want to see and hear how I can help people in the studio or live, either by engineering, producing, and/or playing/singing, go to:
www.jjeff.info
www.southernsoundstudio.com
Most of the material has been remastered. I have been fortunate enough to take part in some truly amazing recordings and gigs, and hope to do more! Feel free to reach out to me anytime - I am truly here to help people make better music, and have the skills to do so.
Will be releasing much new original music soon. There will be links posted, but will NOT be posting it on FB, just simply because then they can use it free perpetually, and I won’t give them that right….
I LOVE all of you, and look forward to making music again with ALL my friends!!😎🎵🎹🎸🎷🎶🥁😍

05/26/2018

Just really wanted to say "Thanks!" to all the folks that attended our Studio Party! Although the rain kept the numbers down, there were almost half a dozen people seriously interested in booking time! For anybody else...:
www.southernsoundstudio.com
www.jjeff.info/producer
www.jjeff.info/engineer

05/20/2018

OK, FOLKS, THE PARTY DATE IS MAY 21ST - THIS MONDAY - COME HAVE A DRINK OR 3!
4PM-10PM 4924 73 AVE PINELLAS PARK
www.southernsoundstudio.com
We just upgraded to the latest in Pro Tools 12 HD Ultimate - listen to production and engineering samples (including "Befores & Afters" of demos given to us and finished mixes we gave back to clients!!) Go to:
www.jjeff.info/producer
www.jjeff.info/engineer
COME HAVE A DRINK OR 3 WITH US!
THANK YOU WE LOVE YOU!!

05/19/2018

Had a GREAT session with Brass Ring, a 5 piece horn ensemble! 2 Trumpets, Trombone, French Horn, and Tuba, under the able conducting of Jim Fozard. Vintage Mic's used were 2 AKG 414's on Trumpets, RCA DX-44 large ribbon on Trombone,and 3 Neumann U-87's on French Horn, Tuba, and a room mic!! Thanks to Bill, Dave, Chu, Wayne, and especially Doug, for your great playing!