We are always looking for great Pro-Tools interns.

Please, no. It's like Calgon time for the engineers

Do you want to work at your job without a break? We're extremely efficient and love our work but we need breaks! Be kind to our engineers, please! Expect an hour's worth of downtime for every ten hours of work.

It never hurts to bring the gear you are most comfortable with. This applies especially to guitars, stomp boxes, kick drum pedals, snare drums, and cymbals.

We have an array of gear (see equipment list) for use at no extra cost. One thing to keep in mind when recording on a budget is that we can get good sounds with our gear more quickly.

1- First of all and most obvious is practice! While practicing, make a recording. Even a ghetto-blaster tape recording will allow you to hear your individual parts.
2- Make sure you know the parts everyone else in the band is playing. There's often confusion when someone will hear a part they never heard before and don't like. Fisticuffs ensue and we don't like fighting in the studio. It's unproductive.
3- Visit the studio and bring CDs of your favorite recordings so we can get an idea of the sounds you want.
4- Practice some more. Take any recordings you've made and figure out possible overdubs such as solos and backup vocals. You have no idea how much time ($$$!) can be wasted on figuring out one harmony while in the studio.

We strongly suggest buying your own external Firewire/USB 2.0 drive of 40 gigabytes or more if you are going to be working in Pro Tools. We don't have enough disk space to keep your files in our computers for more than one week, so you will need some kind of storage solution anyway. Other options are flash drive or DVD-R backups, which we provide for $15 a piece and hold 4.4 gigs (usually means 4 songs or less.)

We recommend backing up your data in at least two locations. An external Firewire/USB 2.0 drive and a few DVD-R's is a good way to do this.

Remember, hard drives crash, so make sure you keep everything backed up!

We consider a day to consist of 10 hours of productive recording time. This includes:
-load-in
-microphone and equipment setup
-lunch and/or dinner breaks
-transfers between analog machines and Pro Tools (in real time)
-transfers between hard drives
-burning CD's/DVD's
-arguing about guitar solos, beating up the drummer, etc.
If technical problems arrise as they sometimes do we'll either work later to make up the time or discount the session.

Generally people want to book at least one whole day in the studio. The most typical are 3 day blocks. The problem is that if we book 3 hours one day, then the rest of that day is not usable to the majority of our clients and the studio is not making money. That's hard enough as it is. So we have a 4 hour minimum. Sorry.