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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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…

Artist: Wolf Teeth | Album: A House ​/​/​ A Home

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…

Drum Replacement & Enhancement

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.…