Studio Profile
House of David
Recording Studio
Electric Settings Make for Electric Clientele
Located inside a large Victorian house hidden by tall oaks, House of David looks more like your granny’s than a place where masterpieces are made. The Nashville studio is named after its founder David Briggs who began his successful career at just 14. Boasting an immense amount of gear, including a vintage API and old-school outboard equipment, Briggs’ eclectic setting has managed to incur interest from some of the industry’s best. Past clients have included indie darlings Yo La Tengo and folk legend Neil Young – not to mention recent guests like Allison Kraus.
“A turn of the century house, an extensive mic locker, ultrasone headphones, apogee converters and clocking, analog tape machines, a great rate, I guess what I have to say, what the hell are you waiting for?” wrote David’s chief engineer Richard McLaurin, on the studio’s website.
The studio recommends that you hire one of their assistant engineers if you’ve never worked there before to help things go more smoothly – their rates are $100 a day.
Gear: 1972 API 2832 32 input console, Pro Tools Accel HD3 32 in/out, Marshall-Royer mod 2001 tube, GSSL Stereo Compressor, 2 DBX 902 de-esser, 2 Neve Class A Unity Line Amps, Vintech X73i, AKG BXE-20 Stereo Spring Chamber, Panasonic 3800, Yamaha P2200,Yamaha NS10, Dynaudio M2 midfields, Otari MTR90III, MCI JH16 with16 or 24-track heads, Autolocator III with guitar mod, Dolby SR 24-channel XP. For a full list visit, www.houseofdavidstudio.com.
Engineer: Richard McLaurin
Past Clients: B.B. King,Travis Tritt, Billy Joe Shaver, Mack Starks, Neilson Hubbard,George Jones, Elvis Presley
Rates:
Engineer
$350 per day
Studio
$500 per day
Tape and Media
2-inch tape $280 per reel
2-inch tape rental $50 per reel
1/2-inch tape $60 per reel
CDR $1 each
DVD $5 each
Nashville, TN (615) 320-7323
www.houseofdavidstudio.com
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IN THE NEWS
Nashville’s Bo Bice, runner up in the fourth season of American Idol and now solo artist, along with his wife, welcomed the birth of their second child Caleb James Bice on Tuesday, August 5 in Nashville. Bice has been performing around the country in the Forty Years Ago Today tour and will be promoting his new album See The Light on a national tour in the fall, which will go through March. Bice is currently working on two songs that will be on the Brother’s of the Southland album, “These Dreams” with Molly Hatchet and The Allman Brothers, and “Can’t You See” with the Marshall Tucker Band.
www.bobice.com
Nashville prog-rock band Sound&Shape signed with Engineer Records. Engineer Records has worked with bands like Hot Water Music and Planes Mistaken For Stars in the past. The band has also decided to scale their upcoming album, The Love Electric, down to a five-song EP, which will be released internationally in January 2009. Sound&Shape has also scheduled a West Coast tour in the late fall.
www.myspace.com
/soundandshape1
Nashville’s Theory 8 Records released singer-songwriter Keegan Dewitt’s new LP, Islands, on October 7. According to Dewitt, the album took a little over a year and a half to record at six different studios with ten studio musicians. Islands was produced by Roman Candle and Chris Stamey, who has worked with Whiskeytown, Yo La Tengo and R.E.M. previously.
www.keegandewitt.com
Nashville-local Jason Peterson launched a new music website in August for a good cause. Hunger For Music raises money to help feed Haiti’s hungry children. The site offers digital downloads at $.99 a song, which generates a $.89 profit. All the profit goes to Nashville’s Trinity/Hope Haitian Food Program. Peterson contributed the first song to the website, “Jeremie, Haiti Song,” which he wrote about his own experience in Haiti. Hunger For Music is currently accepting songs from musicians of any genre.
www.myspace.com
/hungerformusic
Singer-song writer Chris Volpe recorded a short performance in a unique location. The performance took place in Bluegrass Underground, a natural underground amphitheater in the Cumberland Caverns in McMinnville, TN. Volpe performed two songs from his new album Shipwrecked, “Dusty Bibles” and “Bury My Words.” The performance aired on WSM/650 AM, the original broadcaster of the Grand Ole Opry, in September. Videos of the performance, which was recorded by Phil Harris, can also be found on YouTube.
www.myspace.com
/chrisvolpe
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