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.
An Interview with James from Bad Racket Cleveland Who thought of the name? Why Bad Racket? We started Bad Racket as a recording studio in 2009. Thomas and Adam were working at Go Media, a design firm in Ohio City, what started as a few speakers in the first floor of the warehouse soon became…
Building Live Studio Recording Room | Bad Racket Cleveland, Ohio There are several considerations to take into account when building a live recording room or selecting a room to record in. The room itself is very important, because no matter how good the sound is, the environment affects how we perceive the sound and how…
Phoenix (a play by Scott Fivelson) performed by the Cleveland Radio Players About the Live Recording Session In January 2015 we recorded our first radio play with The Cleveland Radio Players The Players The production was recorded live with a full cast of local talent. This including (in order of appearance) Denny Castiglione – Narrator…
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Trunkweed Live from Bad Racket (Apparently) Apparently Hunter Prunty and Evan Prunty made a video at bad racket with trunkweed when they came to town. Apparently it’s pretty good. Apparently they recorded an album while they were there and apparently that’s pretty good too apparently. Apparently they went to the beach and then they recorded the…
Happy Kawanzaa from Bad Racket Recording Studios in Cleveland As you know today is Tuesday, December 26 2014 which is Kawanzaa! What Is Kwanzaa? Kawanzaa is an African-American celebration invented by Dr Maulana Krenga. He first started it in 1966 as a harvest ritual, and as a way to combat the commercialization of Christmas. Kawanzaa has 7…
It is with joyous celebration that we celebrate 5 years in business. As a recording studio since 2009 we have shared good food and drink, family and love around the holidays for 5 years now. Congratulations during this festive season to Bad Racket Recording Studio. Happy New Year 2015 coming up! Whether your Jewish, Muslim,…
Reverse the Curse -Carer Video (Live from Bad Racket Recording Studio) Band Members Ed Starcher, Joey Regets, Max Wesoloski, Jack Musil. Hometown Hiram, OH Record Label Paths (2009) – Lock & Key Collective Hither & Yon (2011) – Paper+Plastick [Records] Existent (2013) – P+P / Escapist Records MMITS split 7″ (2015) – Escapist Records …
Why we don’t do recording studio internships And it isn’t in your best interest to give your work away for free A lot of people want to know if we do recording studio internships, or maybe they got turned down by another studio and still haven’t given up yet. We do Not in fact do…
What are some good recording studio books? I would recommend George Martin’s “All You Need Is Ears” This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin “Endlessly stimulating, a marvelous overview, and one which only a deeply musical neuroscientist could give. Daniel Levitin has a huge knowledge of…