Greetings from me, Conrad Uno.
Egg Studios is my personal
studio, boasting the Ultimate in Analog recording......... 2" 16 track.
Or, of course, we can go "tapeless"
and just cut the tracks Digitally. That's fun too,
and costs a little less.
Or, we can combine, mix, and match analog and digital,
as
need be.
Egg is a comfy, funky, infamous, garage/basement studio. It's real and it's fast and you can afford it ! I've recorded millions of demos here in my basement and some great albums also. Most bands record fairly live basic tracks then overdub as needed.
If you record at Egg, unless you have made other arrangements, you are recording with me. That means I
am your engineer and will help with production when the need arises. This
help is simply a bonus of recording at Egg and is included in the regular
rates.
A Lockout day at Egg will cost you $325 (Noon -10 pm)
An hour at Egg will cost you $38
(two hour minimum)
Tape Costs are Extra, of course.
You can
keep tape costs to a minimum by renting tape from me for $50 per reel.
Fine Print: the Egg
day is from Noon to 10 pm. Weekend dates booked at Day Rate only. Tape rental includes archiving tracks
to digital multi-track, stored on DVD. Using other
engineer/producer types is fine but requires special arrangements.
To check available dates etc., contact me via the
electronic mail..... Info@eggstudios.net
What are folks saying about the egg experience?..... Testimonials
OK, sure, it's true that some great
albums have been recorded here!
But you shouldn't come to Egg just because I did the
first Presidents
album, or because you love the albums by the Young
Fresh Fellows, or the Fastbacks,
or Mudhoney,
or Gas
Huffer, or the Supersuckers,
or the Devil
Dogs, or the Mono
Men, or Snitches
Get Stitches, or the
Posies, or Zeke,
or the Briefs,
or Smoosh,
or Ruby
Dee and the Snakehandlers, etc., etc., that were recorded here.
You should come to Egg because you
want to have a fun, relaxed, high quality, low stress,
productive recording experience that doesn't cost you arms and legs and a years
worth of whiskey.
I have decent gear, shit
loads of experience, and truly believe that recording should be easy and fun !
Please give me a holler and tell me
about your band or project, or to ask any questions you might have about me, or
Egg, or recording in general.
Thanks
Here are some links to more Egg related
information.
Seasonal Specials
check out our sampler of egg recordings
featuring our embarrassment of a president
Egg is primarily an Analog recording facility.
We use
2" Quantegy GP9, 499, or 456 recording tape.
Quantegy, the worlds only major supplier of quality
analog tape recently went through bankruptcy.
The good
news is that, even though Quantegy went down, there is high quality recording tape still
being manufactured in the world.
(The bad
news is that the prices have gone up.)
But......
Egg does have tape!
For lower to medium budget projects, demos, etc., we
will be happy to rent you tape, and archive your tracks onto DVD once your use
of the tape is complete. (i.e.-mixed and approved for mastering) The tape we
rent is high quality, new or nearly new, and will not be worn out in any way.
We also can sell you slightly used reels at a reduced price. For higher budget
projects we can sell you new tape, please call and ask about availability and
price ahead of time. thanks.
Tape Rental.......$50 per reel (includes archiving)
Used tape for sale........price will vary but will be
between $75 and $150
New tape for sale.........the new price for a reel of 2" tape is about $250 plus tax.
We also have blank CDR's, 1/4"
analog, DAT, and cassette tape in stock. You can save a couple of bucks, if you
want, by purchasing your own tape etc. at ProTape NW in Seattle. (206-441-8273).
Seasonal Specials
Our analog recorder is an Otari MTR 90
MkIII- 2" 16 track recorder.
It is awesome!
(We also have two Tascam MSR-16,
1/2" 16 track recorders, one with dolby "S" noise reduction and
one with dbx.
We don't record on them anymore but they are here if needed
for playback of old tapes, etc.)
For your digital recording needs we have
the MOTU 2408 MK III / Mac G4 /
Digital Performer system.
(comparable to and compatable with Pro
Tools)
It will synch to the Analog tape decks,
making it easy to bring tracks in from other studios, send tracks out to other
studios, edit tracks, and phutz around, etc. (We also have 16 tracks of Tascam
DA-88 digital recording which will sync to the analog and/or MOTU if needed)
Mic pre-amps are Neve, Manley, Mackie, and the special sound of
our Spectrasonics Console (custom built for Stax Studios in Memphis around
1964). We have a variety of Microphones, of course, including the lovely and
talented Soundeluxe U-95 tube, Royer R-122 Ribbon, 414's, 421's, AT-4033,
Sanken CU-31's, RE-20, etc. Amongst our outboard gear we boast a Manley Electro
optical tube limiter/compressor, a Drawmer tube EQ, an Empirical Labs
Distressor, plus plenty of the usual squeezers and goop machines. We mix to a
1/4" Studer B67 (analog half track) and/or directly to the hard drive of our
Alesis MasterLink. Using the MasterLink makes it extremely easy and fast to
burn you a reference CD of your session if you like, and/or a 24 bit CD-rom
which can be used for mastering or as a master backup.
We monitor with Tannoy's legendary "Little Reds" (SRM
12B's), NS 10's, and EV S-40's. We are also proud to supply cable TV/VCR,
refrigerator, microwave, coffee maker, playstation 1, mini ping pong table, and
toilet.
The Egg Studios day rate is $350 per
day. The hourly rate is $35 per hour.
These rates include Conrad Uno as
engineer/co-producer.
Our day rate is based on a maximum use of from 10am to 10pm, due
to our residential situation.
Weekends are booked at day rate only.
Weekdays can be booked by the day or by the hour.
We will probably ask for a deposit to hold any dates booked.
(If you don't show up, we use your deposit to buy Tequila)
Seasonal Specials
Like all studios we do have a few
oddball rules.
For example, there is no smoking in the studio (only outside
in the driveway).
There are some minor parking restrictions, as a courtesy to
our neighbors.
Our day ends at 10pm.
Whiskey is OK.
Seasonal Specials
not to mention some of our other recent projects for.......
Acetylene, All American Playboys, Amazombies,
Attacko!, Adding Machine, All Out, Jon Auer, the Band Who Made Milwaukee
Famous, Betty Ford Falcons, Boss Martians, Tales from the Birdbath, Black
Panties, the Briefs, Blow Up, Bug Nasties, the Curses, the Catheters, Charlotte
Thistle, Chuckwood, the Congratulators, Bryan Cohen, Jerry Cohen, Combover,
DEK, Dear John Letters, Dan Johnson, Dave Conant, Danielli, Deuce Bender,
Dreadfull Children, the Drews, Drew Church, Dr. X, Dope Smoothie, Double Shot,
Earaches, Evil Little Men, Fastbacks, Fallouts, Fireballs of Freedom, Fear of
Little Men, the Giraffes, the Gentlemen, Glorious Day, Half Dexter, Head,
Heather Duby, Heartbreak USA, Henry Boy, Jackmove, Jimmy Flame, Knut Bell &
the Blue Collars, Ken Stringfellow, Kent 3, Klondike 5, Kruise, Lashes, Los
Chingalos, Lower 48, Mabel Dodge, Malinks, Makers, Men of Science, Model
Rockets, Mudhoney, Murder City Devils, Nevada Bachelors, Nickol Kollars, Nurse
Bre, Open Choir Fire, Pinkos, Popspoiler and His Deadbeats, Pranks, the Pulses,
Pure Joy, Presidents of the ...., Red Dress, Reckless Bastards, Revelators,
Right On, RC-5, Ronson Family Switchblade, Scatterbox, Seditionaries, Shackles,
Sickness, Smoosh, Snitches get Stiches, Sole Moxie, Suite 13, Steve Turner
Experience, the Stuck Ups, Uptowns, Squirrels, Supernot, Tickle, Tugboat
Country, Ticking Timebombs of Fury, Tuffy, Ultra Find, Unsmashable Riffbrokers,
Vaccines, Valentine Killers, Visqueen, the Wannabe's, Weaklings, Wiretaps,
Young Fresh Fellows,
to name a few......
Seasonal Specials
Tell us about your
Band/Recording Project
If you are interested in booking some
time at Egg Studios in the near future, please fill out this little
questionaire for us to let us know what you're all about. Click send at the
end. We'll get back to you , honest!
Warning: this form doesn't work for everyone yet, so
feel free to use it as a guidline and just email us your info at
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budget? How much time are you looking for? Approximately when would you like to
record? Do weekdays work for you or do you need weekends? How
experienced/inexperienced at recording are you? Have you recorded at Egg
before? etc.
Seasonal Specials
Here is how the story goes. Paul
Scoles, of Ironwood Studios (Seattle), owned our Spectrosonics console before
we did. During that time he purchased a Studer 16 track from Paul McCartney. He
removed the Vari-speed knob from Pauls tape deck and installed it on the
console. Later when he sold the tape deck, he forgot to remove the knob. So
there it sits, to this day,on the far right hand side of the console. Yes, you
can touch it. No extra charge!
Seasonal Specials
We are the proud caretakers of a
really wonderful recording console. It was custom built for Stax/Volt studios
in Memphis (yep, Booker T, Otis, Cropper, etc), in about 1965. We don't
actually know who used it and for what recordings, but we do know that it has a
great sound and we like to have it and use it. It was built by Spectrasonics
for Stax. It was purchased at auction when Stax went bankrupt, in the mid 70's,
by Paul Scoles for his then 16 track Ironwood Studios . It was dismantled and
stored in boxes when Ironwood went to 24 tracks. Ten years later, in a moment
of divine inspiration, Paul donated the console to Egg, realizing what a great
match it would be! We are forever indebted. It took a few thousand bucks, many,
many days, and several cans of deoxidant, miles of solder, and some great tech
work (Mr. Ed Brooks and Gary Parisi) to get it up and running. It was well
worth the effort. We'll get a photo of the "Spectro" in here sometime
soon.
Seasonal Specials
Since we don't technically offer the
service of mastering at Egg,(we can sequence, and edit, and EQ, and burn a CDR,
but can't provide the PQ code documentation etc. needed by the manufacturing
plants), we would like to highly recommend a company called Seattle Disc
Mastering. It is owned and operated by Mr. Mark Guenther (former Egg engineer).
SDM has a great state of the art set-up and Mark has a great ear and is 100%
honest and on your side. Plus, if you mix to our analog Studer 1/2 track, SDM
has a great Studer also, so you can transfer your mixes directly from the 1/2
track into the SDM System using his high end D/A converters. Very Nice!! You
can call SDM at 206-368-9220 or click here for a cyber visit. Seattle Disc Mastering
We would also like to recommend using Realtime Inc. to broker the manufacturing end
of your project. Either click on the link provided or Call Pip at 206-523-8050.
He's great and, by the way, does all of our Popllama releases for us.
Ichibanunosan