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.
Bad Racket: Bringing the highest quality audio and video to Cleveland, Northeast Ohio, and Beyond Housed in a 9,000 square foot warehouse, hosting 5 fully equipped audio and video studios with award winning results. Our expert staff including Henri Rapp and James Kananen continue to offer excellence to the community at a price they…
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…
The Speedbumps – Rosaline | Live from Bad Racket Recording Studios Hunter from Black Valve Media helped us with the music video production for a video with the Speedbumps live from Bad Racket Recording Studio. Oh YES! Make sure you check them out at the NEOH Cycle Fest at Edgewater Park September 12! THE SHOW IS…
Artist: Wolf Teeth | Album: A House // A Home A House//A Home by Wolf Teeth About: Wolf Teeth are vestigial teeth in horses; Wolf Teeth is a band from Elyria, OH A House//A Home is Wolf Teeth’s debut release released May 26, 2015 Drums-Mikey Thompson Guitars-Nick Davies Bass-Ricky Whittle Vocals-Eddy Marflak Recorded and mixed at…
Sam Hooper Group and Mike Null release Messin with the Hook ft John Lee Hooker. The latest in our Live from Bad Racket series. Sam Hooper Group (feat. Mike Null) – Messin’ With The Hook (Live From Bad Racket) from Bad Racket on Vimeo. Sakait Baksar on Keys, Derrick James on bass, and Reggie Holmes…
The Trash (Dayton Ohio, Band) at Bad Racket Recording Studio 2011 In late 2011 maybe December or something like that, my friend Spencer Byrnes hit me up with a phone call from Dayton saying he knew this band that wanted to come up to Cleveland to record a record. We cut the songs in a…
Meridian – Glow | Live from Bad Racket Recording Studio In case you missed it, Meridian – Glow (One of the more recent videos in our Live from Bad Racket Series). If you wanted to record a live session with us shoot us an email at play@badracket.com, or call us at 216-905-5714 Our Site: https://badracket.com/…
Gatherers – What If I Can’t (Live from Bad Racket Recording Studio) Gatherers a band hailing from New Jersey (ten minutes outside New York City but whose counting) stopped by Bad Racket Studio in Cleveland, Ohio and recorded a song from their album Caught Between a Rock and a Sad Place. The song they performed…
Gatherers – Ocean Floor Live from Bad Racket Recording Studio Check out the latest in our video series from Gatherers from New Jersey. Ocean Floor! Gatherers a band hailing from New Jersey (ten minutes outside New York City) stopped by Bad Racket Studio in Cleveland, Ohio and recorded a song from their album Caught Between…
Drum Replacement & Enhancement Drum replacement, or “using samples”, is a modern technique that is being implemented in most mainstream music nowadays. Some view it as cheating, and others view it as necessary to achieve a desired sound. Essentially, there are two main ways to use samples with drums: Blending & Layering, or complete replacement.…