Flatlander Sound Studios

Flatlander Sound Studios First-class studio sound recording, mixing and mastering; live event mobile recording; digital audio Louis’s Gateway Arch.

Flatlander Sound is an independent professional studio and live event recording business located in Mascoutah, Illinois, just 25 minutes from St. The studio has world-class equipment featuring the best of both analog and modern digital tools. Projects from a simple 1-song demo to a fully produced CD. Owner Rick Turcotte has 25+ years' experience as a recording artist and audio engineer (member of

the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the Society of Professional Audio Recording Services (SPARS)). Every project gets his personal attention. Has worked with clients representing rock, pop, country, classical, choral, a ca****la, jazz, Southern Gospel, Rap, R&B, reggae and hip hop.

Setup and sound check are done, and here’s the view from my office tonight as my friends and I in The Traveling Salvatio...
09/14/2024

Setup and sound check are done, and here’s the view from my office tonight as my friends and I in The Traveling Salvation Show are ready to share our take on the music of Neil Diamond with the people of north-central North Carolina!

As the Owner and Chief Engineer at Flatlander Sound Studios, this video from Rick Beato hits on the evolution of my expe...
06/25/2024

As the Owner and Chief Engineer at Flatlander Sound Studios, this video from Rick Beato hits on the evolution of my experience recording and producing music with clients for over 27 years. It's becoming increasingly rare to have musicians playing live instruments together in my studio, creating the unique vibe and magic that can only occur when musicians feed off each other's energy and creativity. I'm blessed as a member of The Traveling Salvation Show to still do it "old school" as we record REAL music made by humans--with emotion, life, spirit, and soul. I'd love to have more clients like that. So many clients now come in with a backing track or "beat" produced on a computer that lacks all those things that make music powerful, emotional, inspiring, and special. The advent of artificial intelligence as a tool to produce music will make things even worse--as the tools will only produce computerized rip-offs of the real experts the AI programmers have modeled.

This studio welcomes any musicians out there who still value making it real, human, imperfect, passionate, and impactful.

In this episode, I discuss the crisis in music in two acts: Act I - Music is too Easy to MakeAct II - Music is too Easy to Consume...and their cumulative neg...

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502 N Market Street
Mascoutah, IL
62258

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(618) 530-4490

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Flatlander Sound is an independent professional studio and live event recording business located in Mascoutah, Illinois, just 25 minutes from St. Louis’s Gateway Arch. The studio has world-class equipment featuring the best of both analog and modern digital tools. Projects from a simple 1-song demo to a fully produced CD. Owner Rick Turcotte has 20+ years' experience as a recording artist and audio engineer (member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the Society of Professional Audio Recording Services (SPARS)). Every project gets his personal attention. Has worked with clients representing rock, pop, country, classical, choral, a ca****la, jazz, Southern Gospel, R&B, reggae and hip hop.