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.
Getting the most of your recording studio session at Bad Racket Tip: There is no computer program or plugin, or production technique that will make your awful performance into a hit record. There’s no way around it, you have to make great content in the recording studio to make great recordings. Practice…
Electrical and Lighting Considerations when Building or Setting up a Recording Studio TL; DR: Fluorescent bad, dimmer questionable, lamp good. Grounded AC power: Also good 🙂 All studios start out as a mess of wires in the back of a desk filled with stuff. Somehow everything gets plugged into a circuit breaker strip. Eventually you…
WAV vs AiFF vs mp3 or m4A: Which audio file format is best? Quick answer which is best to use WAV AIFF mp3 or M4A? Answer: WAV is usually best quality and most common for studio recordings and audio samples. mp3 is suitable for emails, but m4a is the worst and should be avoided. AIFF…
Speaker Repair Diagnosis and Troubleshooting Speaker buggered? Is it not making any sound? Making a funny noise? Speaker problems can be a variety of issues, and repair and maintenance is usually the audio engineer’s responsibility. Check it out! Problem: Speaker Not making any noise First check obvious problems, like wires not being plugged in…
The Cordial Sins – Sick of the Hype (Live from Bad Racket) The Cordial Sins came by Bad Racket Recording Studio to record their song Sick of the Hype! https://www.thecordialsins.com/https://www.facebook.com/TheCordialSins/ The Cordial Sins are an alternative rock group hailing from Columbus, Ohio. Mixing harmonious elements from traditional shoegaze groups like Slowdive, with classic grunge and…
Orca – Awkward Young Cannibals (Live From Bad Racket) Check out Orca’s new Live from Bad Racket! Their new album “Pitch for the Unwilling” is out now! Bandcamp: https://orcaohio.bandcamp.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1ghvWr… Audio: Henri Rapp Filmed by: Hunter Prunty & Evan Prunty Edited by” Evan Prunty Genre: Post-Hardcore Orca Band Members are: Ian – Vocals…
Born Without Bones – Wishing (You) Well ‘Live From Bad Racket’ Premier Via Pulmonary Sound Premiered via Pulmonary Sound “Massachusetts band, Born Without Bones stopped by Bad Racket Recording Studio in Cleveland, Ohio to record a Live From Bad Racket video of their song “Wishing (You) Well”. The song is from their new album Young…
The Venus Flytraps – X-Ray Vision (Live From Bad Racket) The Venus Flytraps stopped by Bad Racket Recording Studio to do a live version of their song X-Ray Vision! Kelly Venus – Guitar Vocals Aubrey O’Blivion – Bass Vondrella Raygun – Vocals Mike Hood – Drums Contact: venusflytrapsband at gmail https://thevenusflytraps.bandcamp.com/ Filmed by:…
Beasts Without Biomes – Goodbye to Summertime (Live From Bad Racket) Now available on Apple iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/say-goodbye-to-summertime/1382354005 On a cold snowy day in Cleveland, we recorded an album for Beasts with out Biomes. Evan and Hunter came by and shot this sick video for a song called Goodbye to Summertime live from our Recording Studio…
Bad Racket Cleveland Music Studio Recording We are happy to help with any recording, mixing, or mastering you need for your music. We have a professional studio located downtown. We are experience with mixing, editing, effects and all other aspects of music production. Bad Racket is a music studio, and we do commercial and voice…