Members of WAR came by TRI for the day. Our good friend Pancho who also plays for PHILM got the group to stop by and create some new songs on the spot. It was a great experience to record them and hear similar sounds of WAR. Watch a clip of one of the tunes! On drums I used a C24 on overheads. A D112 and C12 for Kick. M81 and 441 on Snare and M81 and 421 for Toms. Shure and Royer for guitars and 414 for Bass. Mike Mcginn mixed the web streams so enjoy!
Rick Vargas
Lukas Nelson and The Promise of the Real
Another great TRI show for Yahoo! Lukas Nelson performed his new record along with his band “The Promise of the Real”.
Check out the show Engineered by myself and Brad Dollar on Yahoo.com music page.
The National with Bob Weir
Possibly our best show to date. The very talented band “The National” and Bob Weir rehearsed for two days prior to the show to learn each others material. Both video and audio teams worked very hard to bring a solid production to the audience of Yahoo.com. Over 2.5 million views and counting have seen the performance. Myself and Brad Dollar engineered the show. Being this was a larger set-up we used more dynamic vocals microphones and stayed away from large caps to prevent excessive bleed. Bob will in almost every scenario be using a Telefunken C12 for vocals. We love this on his vocals and being a studio environment we can get away with it. 409 and royer 121 on Weir’s guitar. Tele 251 on piano. Tele 260 on overheads on drums. Most traditional choices on rest of instrumentation. Shure and senheiser for drums and guitar amps. The broadcast was mixed from Ratdogs very own Mike Mcginn. Mixed with our API vision console, 2500 and Aurora lynx converter before reaching the viewers. A outstanding mix and performance from the staff at TRI.
The Communion Tour – Matthew and The Atlas, David Mayfield Parade, Lauren Shera
Listen to my live mix of all three bands here!
CHICKENFOOT ALBUM RELEASE AT TRI
Another great production at TRI Studios. I had the privilege of working alongside Mike Fraser (Mixer) for this Album release show. Mike Fraser used very minimal compression and more fine EQ and great Balance of instrumentation. One of the easiest mixer/engineers I’ve worked with. He Just made everything work. The Broadcast was mixed on a pair of NS10’s powered by a Mc’Intosh 275 Power amp. Check out the TRISTUDIOS website for photos and soon video clips of the show.











