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.

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Hunter talks about microphones polar patterns!

Understanding Microphone Polar Patterns Hunter From Bad Racket Recording Studio in Cleveland, Ohio talks about how microphones pick up sound as well as how we use them in the studio. Microphone polar patterns is how the microphone picks up sound and in what directions. They includes cardioid, Omni-directional Figure-8. Cardioid or uni-directional mics pick up…

Sexy Pig Divas Live From Bad Racket Recording Studio Cleveland

  We’re excited to announce the  premiere of a new SexyPigDivas Video from our Live from Bad Racket series filmed in our Cleveland, Ohio studios.   SexyPigDivas is a indie jitter rock band band emotion experience featuring husband wife duo Katie Makita and Nick Gregg from Kent, Ohio. Check out their upcoming release “Gods and…

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Choosing drum heads for recording

Choosing Drum Heads for Recording in the Studio   Drum heads can affect the tone of your drums more than any other factor. If your drum heads are poorly tuned or worn out you cant expect the same sound. Drummers head preferences vary widely from double ply coated to more ringing single ply heads. Generally…