James Kananen is an Audio Engineer and Record Producer from Bad Racket Recording Studio in Cleveland Ohio. With a background in audio and sound I'm ready for your high quality professional recording, mixing, or mastering for music or video for the north east Ohio area.

Happy New Wall

Happy New Wall from Bad Racket Recording Studios Cleveland I know I’m a little late on reflection for 2012 and gushy optimism for 2013… all the “best of” posts are done, but I’m still thinking about it. Sorry, the ‘it’ isn’t even easy to pin down. The first thing that comes to mind of what…

Shoulda called it a soundtrack…Bad Racket’s Cleveland Music Compilation

Bad Racket’s Cleveland Music Compilation   A few days ago I sent a message to a friend of mine confirming the date and time for an upcoming video shoot. We’ve done over 20 videos now, enough to make the process feel ordinary… but what’s cool about that is that when I’m excited for the next…

Let’s Get Down To Business

So maybe you’re here looking at BadRacket.com because you want to record here. Maybe you’ve already recorded here. Maybe you’ve never recorded here and don’t have any desire to – you’re just checking out this fancy new website. Either way, you’re probably here because recording music is of interest to you. Did you know that…

Filmstrip Live from Bad Racket Recording Studio

Filmstrip Live from Bad Racket Recording Studio Cleveland Live From Bad Racket is a monthly music video series featuring artists performing at the Cleveland based recording studio. Filmed / Directed by Aaron Freeder Guest Film Crew: 216 Studios, Michael Carissimi and Richard Walsh Audio Engineered at Bad Racket Recording Studio   Genre Indie Rock Sophomore…

What is a Record Label?

Is Bad Racket a Record Label? No. Bad Racket is a recording studio that sometimes does things to help bands that might classify us a label, but we really don’t know. We’ve asked the question “What is a record label?” to a thousand people or more, and no one really seems to have a consistent…