Sierra Sound, NYC

08/31/2025

Hey all you glitter kids!
Here's my latest entry into the rock-n-roll canon, the new Dulany record. The first single is a track called "Stealing From A Friend", for which we shot a video...there's a few shots of me with the '55 LP Junior doing my best to channel the Thunders/Spedding vibe.

The record is a bit of a Certain General reunion of sorts, a tribute to the late David Lee, who began the record but sadly left the planet before most of his parts were recorded. Dave was a friend and musical comrade, and I've tried to fill in the parts he would have done in the spirit he intended. And I'll be playing guitar with a reformed Certain General to tour the record moving forward.
More soon...
Dig it!
Video by Chris Robb with shots of me filmed by Dee D. Bache. The still shot of me is by Beth Cummins.
Dedicated to the memory of Dave Lee🎸❤️🎸❤️🎸

https://vimeo.com/1109795303

Guitar parts played and recorded by me at Sierra Sound, NYC. Mixed and mastered by Mario Salvati.

By Parker Dulany off his new album The Hot Plates 2025

07/07/2024

Excellent article about Steve Hunter, Dick Wagner and Lou Reed’s “Rock N Roll Animal”

After Reed’s dark concept album, Berlin, bombed, guitarists Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner helped him get his groove back. The result was Rock ’n’ Roll Animal, the live classic that revitalized Reed's spirit and rescued his career

06/07/2024

My latest creative collaboration. Co-produced by Bibi Farber and myself, featuring The Bongos' Rob Norris on bass.

Produced by Bibi Farber and Freddie Katz
BibiFarber.com

Bibi Farber: Vocal, Guitar and Video Editing
Rob Norris: Bass
Chris McWilliams: Camera Man
Francine Vidal: Gypsy Woman

Freddie Katz: Production, Recording, Mixing & Percussion
SierraSoundNYC.com
Hells Kitchen, NYC

Dig it!

Bibi Farber & Rob Norris bring you this exuberant message: Lady Please! I need to find me a Love Crystal!Produced by Bibi Farber and Freddie KatzBibiFarber....

03/13/2024

Sometime in mid 2007, one ordinary unexciting evening, I was sitting in my kitchen and the phone rang (I believe it was the "real" phone, which were still widely in use, even then). I picked up the blower in question and the voice on the other end said,

"Hello, is Freddie Katz available?"

"This is Freddie"

"Hi - this is Eric Carmen calling...Rick Chertoff gave me your number - were doing a couple of Raspberries reunion shows in New York and Rick says you're the guy who should mix. Are you interested? Available?"

Needless to say I nearly fell over...and although things like this were known to happen back then...people still actually TALKED on phones...not EVERYTHING was through text and email quite yet...but still. Phone or not it wasn't a living legend reaching out to you everyday.

Immediately in my mind was the image of Ira Sebastian Elliot and me driving around Queens at 4am (probably after some Danceteria hang) blasting "Tonight" and "Overnight Sensation" on the car stereo. Ira was a Raspberries fan, and he helped turn me into one. We don't bump into one another all that often these days, but that was a bond we shared, and I'll never forget it.

It made sense that Eric had mentioned Rick Chertoff…I had been doing some live sound work for him around that time, a project he’d been involved in with Willie Nile. Obviously he’s passed my number along…thanks Rick! Thanks Willie!

Needless to say I took the gig.

And especially, thank you ERIC CARMEN! It was glorious!

RIP - TAKE A BOW❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Btw, one of the frustrating things about live sound is how ephemeral it is...once the show's over, it's gone. Your whole glorious mix...up into the ether. Very different than making a record. But a YouTube search revealed that someone did in fact post some video from that show, and although the audio isn't as powerful as if you were there, it does catch the flavor of my mix, the drum sound, the beautiful ambience. There are a few clips, but here's the best one I could find. Dig it!! https://vimeo.com/74904463

02/05/2024

Watching Joni's Grammy's performance now...I'm a sopping mess.

Just....Wow.

12/24/2023

I was recently invited by Staci Layne Wilson (esteemed rock writer, film producer and all around rock royalty) for an interview on her Rock-N-Roll Nightmares podcast to talk about my travels through rock-n-roll. I share a bit of history, a few fun anecdotes, and a sampling of some of the records I’ve been producing lately.

Dig it🎸🎸🎸‼️

Steve Holley
Guy Furrow
Marni Kim music
Spottiswoode & His Enemies
Donna Destri

Staci’s guest is Freddie Katz, an NYC-based guitarist, songwriter, producer, and engineer—to name just a few of the things he does in the world of music. He’s been immersed in the punk music scene his whole life, and he’s seen it all from Max’s Kansas City’s heyday to working with new an...

11/03/2023

I’m excited to get back into the studio with Freddie Katz tonight to work on a new song. I can’t imagine something more inspiring to me than a behind the scenes look at the *new* Beatles song…

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08/10/2023

It’s been a busy week for Sierra Sound. Two records I produced and recorded here are dropping this week, the first of which is Marni Kim’s new single “Waves”, a sweet slice of alt candy pop goodness that I know you’re gonna love, featuring the drumming prowess of the legendary Steve Holley

This is it! “Waves” is now available to stream. See link in bio. artist

Follow me here and wherever you stream 🎉🎸🎵🎤

08/08/2023

Introducing Marni Kim!

Marni's a great new artist I've been producing and her first single will be out tomorrow, Aug. 9th!

Song written by Marni and me.
Vocals by Marni
Guitars, bass and keys by me.
Drums by Steve Holley

Marni Kim music

Check it out🎸🎸🎸

Stream and Pre-save Waves - Distributed by DistroKid

11/23/2021

In the continuing evolution of Manhattan, my old audio engineering pal Mark Dann has announced that after twenty odd years of being a staple of the New York recording scene, he’s finally closing the doors of his Tribeca studio. It seems that the landlord has decided to completely modernize and renovate the building and all the tenants have to go. I can’t even guess how many hours I logged in at Mark’s place, working on various album and demo projects over the years. I’ll be sad to see it go. The good news is, Mark is selling off much of his groovy vintage gear, and as a result, as soon as I can rack them up, Sierrasound will have in its arsenal this beautiful Demeter mic-pre, along with this pair of very sweet sounding Urei LA-5 compressors. Also thrown into this sweet deal are this lovely stereo pair of AKG C-460 condenser mics, sure to add sparkle to all manner of acoustic instruments, strings, percussion, etc.

So, at least there’s a silver lining. Glass half full, always😎

10/16/2021

Hey you glitter kids!

The Carvels live album has been given a makeover, reissued with new liner notes, artwork and a bonus track.

Lovingly produced and engineered my me, mixed by the inimitable Jim Diamond.
❤️🎸‼️

Info below:

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It's here, come and get it! Free download of our lovely live LP includes brand new bonus track, liner notes booklet and poster! Just type thecarvelsnyc.com into your browser and get our music FREE! See you on October 23rd at Parkside Lounge NYC! NEW single out soon!

“The Carvels NYC sound like a band from a different era but are urgently needed now.” (Rich Quinlan, Jersey Beat) Celebrating NYC rocknroll Lynne Von Pang - vocals Brian Morgan - guitar RB Korbet - bass, vocals Steve Pang - drums

03/03/2021

The Readymades compilation that I mixed and mastered has just been reissued by Liberation Hall, and it's getting some nice press-love. San Francisco's The Readymades were of course the brainchild of Jonathan Postal (also known for his amazing punk era photography) and amongst other things features some tracks that were produced by none other than the late Sandy Pearlman, which I've had the great honor of remixing. I've always loved Pearlman's work, especially with The Dream Syndicate (h/t Steve Wynn), not to mention Shakin' Street/Ross Friedman, who I wound up touring with as a guitar player years later, in 2019. So working on this was pretty special.

And if that's not cool enough, check this out:

This Readymades reissue has been getting enough attention that the label has now decided to put out a compilation of Postal's "post" Readymades material, which I'm currently working on remixing, mastering, and even adding some additional guitars to. These tracks come from several of Jonathan's later bands, and include contributions from Johnny Rao, Kenny Aaronson, Lee Crystal (RIP), The B-Girls (h/t Cynthia Ross), Smashed Gladys' Bart Lewis, and also Ian North, who sadly just passed away a few days ago.

Anyway, it's nice to have some cool music to work on, especially now, and it's an honor to be in such esteemed company.

As Alan Merrill (❤) used to say, "more soon...always more".

At the dawn of punk rock and the new wave, San Francisco’s Readymades sparked both fanship and controversy. Fanship for what New York Rocker described as a blend that leaned “towards the power and simplicity of punk and the accessibility of pop.” Controversy for much the same thing. Readymades...