Interview: Analog Vs Digital, Streaming, Vinyl, and the Music Business Interview Questions by A Random Lakewood Resident and Responses by James Kananen Producer from Bad Racket Recording Studio How has music streaming affected you? What about your clients? Streaming has affected me personally by allowing me to enjoy many types of music i…
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…
Bad Racket a Community Recording Studio in Cleveland Ohio For years we have raised the level of quality in recording and music production in the Cleveland area. James Kananen has amassed countless credits on music albums and video production credits, including numerous awards and total sales exceeding 1 million units. We are creating major…
Producing Music in our Cleveland Recording Studio Whether you are looking for hip-hop and rap production, or rock band, drums bass and guitar type production, we can help you with your music producing from our recording studios in Cleveland. A music producer oversees the recording process and manages the album recording from the sound recording…
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…
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…
Using Equalization in Mixing I find a lot of times equalization in combination with dynamics control and saturation can be used to sweeten a mix, and mixing is many times simply a matter of make things fit together nicely with Equalization. Subtractive Eq Equalization or EQ is often thought of in a subtractive sense in…
Analog Studio or Digital Studio? Is Bad Racket an Analog Studio or a digital studio? We get this question all the time. Some people are die hard analog. Others are all about the digital recording. So whats the deal? What Really Matters Firstly, analog recording is very expensive compared to digital. Expect to spend hundreds…
Microphones at Bad Racket Recording Studio Cleveland, Ohio We have many microphones at Bad Racket including rare, vintage, and custom microphones check out our gear page Microphones are the electric the ears of recording. They work by changing air pressure energy into electrical energy. Most work in a similar way to a human ear, in…
Bad Racket Recording Studio Layout Live Rooms The studio layout is typically divided into several sections. The main recording room is often called the live room. This is the largest room containing all the cabling and equipment where a band can set up. It is useful to have headphones for each musician that each have…