Studio Nervosa

08/24/2024

08/06/2024

Studio Tips: Guitar players and bass players, always record a DI when recording your amps. There are many good sounding and affordable DI boxes out there and you should absolutely have one if you’re recording yourself in any capacity.
Why do you need to record a DI? Well I’m glad you asked as there are several reasons.
#1. As a safety net. You might love your tone when tracking just to find out that it doesn’t fit with the rest of the mix. Having the ability to reamp your performance might save the whole session.
#2. Makes editing way easier. You ever seen what a distorted guitar track looks like? It basically looks like a fat sausage. The DI on the other hand will show the transient, note, and sustain clear as day. So by having both the DI and amp track, you can group them together so that they’re edited together and that makes editing the tracks so much easier.
#3. Focus. I want you focused on capturing the best performance possible. Not spending half of your recording day thinking about tone, mic placement, preamp settings, and trying to get all of that perfect. By the time you get it right, the inspiration is long gone and your strings are half dead. Being able to seperate when you’re focused on performing and when your focused on tones is an invaluable asset
#4. And lastly, experimentation. During mixing, we can experiment. How’s that riff sound through a dual recto? How’s it sound through a 5150? Let’s slap a Fortin 33 in front, nah too aggressive, try the Maxon od808. SM57 is too bright on its own? Let’s blend the Royer 121 and see if that’s more balanced, etc. All without you having to pick up a guitar and trying to capture that perfect performance for a second time.

08/03/2024

Studio tips: I find that there is an attitude amongst some musicians where they think it’s ok to leave a mistake in a take, to not be as tight as possible, or to not start with a great source tone. Basically the thought has shifted to “they can fix this in the mix, they can edit that later, etc.”
I’m my opinion, this is a huge mistake. I always say that how good a song comes out is 90% in the writing, performance, and recording and 10% in the mixing. When I am sent files to mix, the first thing I do is import them all into a session, turn up the faders, and listen. If things already sound pretty cool and I’m already bopping my head, I know that the mix is going to be sick by the time I’m finished with it. But if I press play and the first thing I feel is that this needs a ton of editing or fixing just to get this to a C- level, or worst, just to get it to a point that I can even start mixing, I feel that the best it’s going to be is maybe a B or B- in the end. Which really sucks. I want your songs to be sick. For example, If you track a great guitar tone, then my job is to touch that tone as little as possible. I’m just trying to make it fit better with the other instruments in the mix, but the goal is for it to retain as much of what you did as possible. You spent thousands on guitars, amps, and pedals, and thousands of hours learning guitar. I assume that you want “You” represented in the song.
But of it’s a terrible recording and everything sucks, yes I can edit it, I can reamp it, I can throw 50 plugins on it, or I can take your DI and run it through a Neural DSP plugin and make it something totally different. But that sucks because I just robbed you of you. Which to me as a musician myself is a tragedy.
So next time you are recording, take your time and make sure every step of the way you ask yourself, is this sounding awesome? Am I happy with my performance? Am I hitting the emotional impact that I intended with these tracks? I ask you to take your time and care a lot about this process because you and your music deserve that. And I promise you, if you send me a song that’s at a B before I’ve touched it. It’ll be an A++ when you get it back. Don’t ever let anyone care about your music more than you do!

07/23/2024

Got a couple of sweet racks to put my amps on. If you need any reamps done through any of these, reach out!

07/06/2024

So in love with my studio! It took a lot of hard work, time, and money to turn this room into my favorite place on the entire planet.
Studio Nervosa - July 2024

06/19/2024

Made a few huge upgrades to the studio this week. Upgraded my interface to an RME with a Ferrofish for an extra 32 channels of IO and added a real deal Neve 1073 as my main preamp. Sh*ts getting real around here!

06/07/2024

Today is the day! Everything Nothing is officially out! Recorded, mixed, and mastered right here at Studio Nervosa.
We are so proud of this record and can’t wait for you all to hear it.
You can stream it everywhere you stream music and we are celebrating the albums release with an amazing show at the Brass Mug in Tampa next Friday, 6/14/24.

Links to Spotify, Apple Music, and our bandcamp site are below for you to check it out:

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6klWlMNV1v0kQCjVpFDX9L?si=eDQAZrlkSTG_f6OPnr1BVA

Apple Music:

https://music.apple.com/us/album/everything-nothing/1747606106

Bandcamp:
https://humanitygone.bandcamp.com/album/everything-nothing

9 track album

06/02/2024

Recorded, mixed, and mastered at Studio Nervosa! Out 6/7.

9 track album

04/24/2024

Always trying to improve. Replaced the SSL Fusion with the Neve MBT and the SSL Bus+ with the Smart C2.

04/23/2024

Music Video for Tossing Stones. The first single off of Humanity Gone's second album, Everything Nothing.

04/21/2024

04/13/2024

Coming soon, the Tossing Stones single off of the upcoming Humanity Gone album, Everything Nothing.

03/30/2024

Selling some studio gear that I no longer really use. Figured I’d give my friends a crack at it before I put it on reverb this week. Everything is in great condition.

Adam Audio A7X (Pair) -$1000
Avantone CLA-10a (Pair) - $800
Slate VSX Headphones (full version) - $275
Focusrite Octopre - $350
Fractal X-Load Reactive Load - $250
Darkglass Alpha Omega Ultra - $250
Radial JCR reamp box - $175
Radial J48 active DI box - $175

01/12/2024

11/25/2023

Recording bass for the new Humanity Gone record Everything Nothing.

10/05/2023

Getting ready to track drums this weekend for the new Humanity Gone album at Studio Nervosa!

09/19/2023

09/19/2023

Bros for life!

09/01/2023

Legends in the studio!

08/18/2023

The third Dark Trilogy single “Pieces” is now out! This one was a blast to mix!

Third song from the EP “Desperato”Joe Feingold- guitarsClint Pagel- bassCharles Lampkin- drums

08/08/2023

Sometimes it’s fun to just redo something old and see how different you can make it.

07/29/2023

Love blending great mics to create different tones.

07/23/2023

Finishing up pre pro for the new upcoming Humanity Gone album. This was the final song. Soon we start tracking drums.

07/09/2023

Working on a fun one for NTM.

06/11/2023

Working on the next Dark Trilogy mix! 🤘

05/21/2023

Working on an In Flames NTM. Such a killer song.

05/18/2023

Mixing a Nickelback song because… Why not.

05/17/2023

New Dark Trilogy single dropping next week! Mixed by yours truly. It’s a pretty sick ass song! Can’t wait for everyone to hear this madness. Make sure to pre save so you don’t miss out.

Spotify pre-save link:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/darktrilogy/time-mirrors?utm_medium=Email+&utm_campaign=website&utm_source=SendGrid

You Wanted the Shred! After 3 years, we’re back. Working on our new ep, “Desperato” one track at a time. The first song “Time Mirrors” will be released next week. Stay tuned!

05/06/2023

Really loving my master bus. Only piece left is a nice mastering converter and the rack will be complete.