Chris Waters Audio

18/08/2020

Ever since the good people at the Community Coffeehouse were gracious enough to let me and my compatriots in The Ocean Hours do some drum tracking in their sanctuary, I've been helping with the audio for their videos in gratitude. I'm super excited to have this most recent batch of songs from Mission House (Taylor Leonhardt and Jess Ray) be out in the world. Give 'em a listen and check out more of their music! (And the Community Coffeehouse if you're in CT!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrLtX3Z1oTI

Taylor Leonhardt sings "Would You Be Well" at the Community Coffeehouse in Danbury, CT. For more info go to www.communitycoffeehouse.org

25/02/2020

02/09/2019

This came out two months ago yesterday. Still super proud of it.
Give it a listen.

The Ocean Hours · Single · 2019 · 5 songs.

21/10/2018

Mt. Mural

These guys are super awesome! One of my favorite bands I've met and gotten to interact with... Check out this Kickstarter and help them make their album!

GREAT NEWS EVERYONE! YOU CAN HELP US REACH OUR ALBUM GOAL! PLEASE, ONLY 8 DAYS REMAINING! FUNDING STARTS TODAY ON OUR SHORT CAMPAIGN. click the link to learn more and pick your reward for donating! thank you LOVE YOU!!!❤️✌️🎵

30/07/2018

Sofar Sounds - YouTube

Two new Sofar videos from Mt. Mural and A Girl Named Scot!

I volunteer as one of the audio engineers for Sofar Sounds in Phoenix, AZ. Here are the performances I've recorded and mixed.

21/06/2018

Mt. Mural | Live from Sofar Phoenix

New music up on the 'ol Soundcloud...

Some great live jams by Mt. Mural from .

Recorded live at a Sofar Sounds event in Phoenix, AZ. Check out more of Mt. Mural's music and tour dates here: https://mt-mural.bandcamp.com/ Recorded and mixed by Chris Waters. Check out Sofar Sou

17/04/2018

Quinn & the Confluence - Autumn Leave | Sofar Phoenix

Recorded the audio for this back in November. These guys were awesome... Check out their other music here: http://quinnscullymusic.weebly.com/

Quinn & the Confluence performing "Autumn Leave" at Sofar Phoenix on November 11th, 2018 Click here to come to a show in your city: http://www.sofarsounds.co...

08/10/2017

Sofar Sounds - YouTube

All the Sofar recordings I've mixed in one spot!

I volunteer as one of the audio engineers for Sofar Sounds in Phoenix, AZ. Here are the performances I've recorded and mixed. Several of them were recorded w...

26/06/2017

Sofar Sounds | Phoenix

Some new music on the Soundcloud from Sofar Phoenix concerts!

https://soundcloud.com/chriswatersaudio/sets/sofar-sounds-phoenix

Sofar Sounds is an an organization that organizes local house concerts. Artists who sign up to play a show receive either a video of one of their songs or a cut of the donations from concertgoers. P

09/03/2017

How We Record Audio At The Tiny Desk

Things have been busy... But there is music coming to the Soundcloud!

Check this out until then:

In honor of all the entrants to our 2017 Tiny Desk Contest, we made a little video about how our audio whiz Josh Rogosin records the Tiny Desk concerts. Reme...

10/09/2016

Sofar Sounds Phoenix

Really enjoyed finally getting to hear The Stakes play last Saturday.
Sofar Sounds Phoenix

05/09/2016

Sofar Sounds Phoenix

Super cool live performance from Sound. at Saturday's Sofar Sounds Phoenix show.

05/09/2016

Friendly Shades (Live at Songbird Coffee & Tea House)

An original song by Joshua Hill (of The Hill in Mind) recorded live at Songbird Coffee & Tea House back in May. It was a wet evening, and you can hear the rain drumming on the roof in the background. Check out more music from The Hill in Mind here: http://thehillinmind.com/

Video and Audio by Chris Waters.

This here tuney toon was written for Orange Theatre's production of Herakles and is adapted from Handel's Oratorio Hercules. It was a magical evening at Song...

21/07/2016

Paper Foxes - Broken Nights and Street Lights | Sofar Phoenix

Another great performance I had the chance to mix for Sofar Sounds Phoenix!







See other Sofar Sounds performances I've mixed here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPm2zGUqDydZCoOYidTeM4ZeVLo1NbcRT

Paper Foxes performing "Broken Nights and Street Lights" at Sofar Phoenix on March 19th, 2016 Click here to come to a show in your city: http://www.sofarsoun...

08/05/2016

Diners - Good Zone | Sofar Phoenix

Check out this video from Sofar Sounds Phoenix's November show!

Jason Robey and I recorded the audio and I mixed it.










See other Sofar Sounds performances I've mixed here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPm2zGUqDydZCoOYidTeM4ZeVLo1NbcRT

Diners performing "Good Zone" at Sofar Phoenix on November 22nd 2015 Click here to come to a show in your city: http://www.sofarsounds.com/signup For a new g...

05/02/2016

Young's Modulus

Young's Modulus

In honor of National Friends Day, we are changing it up to National Fans Day! There is no question that fans are one of the biggest reasons we do what we do, and while our fan base is small but mighty (for now) you make this journey worth while. So, in honor of you, enjoy some YM tunes that were recorded at Pranksters Too and mixed by our friend Chris from Water In The Basement Studio and will appear on our debut album!

28/01/2016

Sofar, So Cool: Live Music At Its Most Exclusive

A great article about the latest show and the Sofar Sounds movement by the Downtown Phoenix Journal.

London-based Sofar Sounds brings great live music to intimate spaces around Phoenix.

19/12/2015

Mosco Rosco Firepit Sessions 6-14-2014

I saw these guys a year ago as an opener for Colony House and absolutely loved their sound.

Unfortunately they recently disbanded, but they've uploaded their entire previously unreleased discography to Soundcloud this month under the name Harper Blynn. Check them out!

https://soundcloud.com/harper-blynn/sets/harper-blynn-get-it-out

18/12/2015

Young's Modulus

For most of the Fall, I spent my weekends assisting with some recording and mixing sessions for Young's Modulus at STEM Recording in Paradise Valley. Their debut album is due out soon, and will be well worth a listen (or many) once it's back from the mastering folks. I mixed three songs from a live recording of one of their shows at Prankster's Too; check out the tracks here: https://soundcloud.com/waterinthebasementstudios/sets/youngs-modulus

Listen to Young's Modulus by Waterinthebasementstudios on

18/12/2015

Inside Track: Alabama Shakes’ Sound & Color

In the past month, I've really gotten into Alabama Shakes. Their most recent record, "Sound and Color", is super awesome --both sonically and musically. Check out this article on the production: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul15/articles/inside-track-0715.htm


"So for ‘Gimme All Your Love’, we strapped a headphone to her face which we had reverse–wired so it would record, and while it also required a lot of post–production treatment to make sure the sound didn’t rip your ears off, the end result was cool. "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oib0a2_itA

22/10/2015

Crazy -- Holly Pyle (Gnarls Barkley/ Ctizen Cope Cover)

Back in May, I had the privilege of recording a live performance by Holly Pyle Music at Songbird Coffee & Tea House in central Phoenix.

She did an awesome cover of "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley with a little Citizen Cope added in for good measure.

I had the privilege of recording Holly Pyle perform at Songbird Coffee and Tea House in central Phoenix. Holly is an incredibly talented musician and vocalist; she makes extensive and artful use of v

05/10/2015

Recording Secrets For The Small Studio (Cambridge Music Technology)

This is so cool:

http://www.cambridge-mt.com/rs-lmp.htm

17/09/2015

The Vanguard Sessions - Joshua Michel Robinson - Black & White

A beautiful performance and video from The Vanguard Room.

Joshua Michael Robinson performs "Black & White" live in-studio at The Vanguard Room in Lakeland, FL. photographer - Oliver Schlienger audio - Aaron Marsh

05/08/2015

Tape Op Magazine

Tape Op Magazine. You can't beat it for consistently helpful, thorough, and interesting articles about recording. It's also hard to beat the price!

Tape Op is a bi-monthly magazine exclusively about recording music. Free subscriptions available worldwide at http://tapeop.com/

30/07/2015

My brother, Justin, and I recorded this song last month as a wedding gift to my other brother, Nick, and his fantastic new wife Sarah (seen/heard singing awesomely in the "Dark Blue" video below). Sarah's sisters, Julia and Abby, lent their beautiful voices to the song, and Elisabeth Hoffman (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/elisabeth-hoffman-s-debut-studio-album #/story) laid down some amazing upright bass.

Take a listen!

https://soundcloud.com/waterinthebasementstudios/made-for-you

29/07/2015

Speakhertz - Talk Audio

For all you gearheads and studiogeeks.....

Check out this sweet website I stumbled across:

Speakhertz aims to get inside the minds of the people responsible for the music you hear, from the artists and producers to engineers and studio owners.

23/05/2015

Aaron Marsh and Copeland have done something really beautiful with this album.

We are excited to announce that TWIN is now available digitally and streaming. TWIN is an alternate version of IXORA which contains alternate versions, remixes, and acoustic versions of every song from IXORA. TWIN was also recorded in a way that it will play in harmony with IXORA creating a 3rd "surround sound" version when both versions are played in sync on two different sound systems.

iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/ixoraTWINitunes
Spotify: http://tinyurl.com/ixoraTWINspotify

07/05/2015

THAT SOUND ORGANIC Sample Pack

The guys at I Want That Sound are doing some really great work:

VIDEO TRAILER FOR "ORGANIC DRUMS" produced by Dustin Burnett and Paul Mabury. This drum pack contains over 800 unique drum samples and nearly 400 unique loop...

01/05/2015

So excited to use these new mics from Blue Microphones!!

16/04/2015

Chris Waters Audio

16/04/2015

Hyde

Oh the joy of recording . . .

04/09/2013

Hyde

The Mix Master enjoying himself.

02/03/2012

Chris Waters Audio's cover photo

15/02/2012

Arts, Ovadia, Chris Greene, student profile

http://www.hillsdalecollegian.com/2012/01/students-music-reflects-his-lifes-mission/

The words “Christian rapper” do not automatically come to mind when you look at junior Chris Greene. He is a white kid from Montana. But music is his passion, and is his life. The more you come to know Greene,