History:

For years I have been experimenting with the recording medium and have found it to be an art that I truly enjoy and learn from everytime I am engaged in it. I have followed this interest from high-school fumblings with a four-track, to a college degree at Hampshire College in music and recording (that included interning at another local studio), and now into building a studio of my own.

While I was previously working out of Hampshire College's 16 track studio for a few years, the Dead Air of the present finds its home in two rooms of my house. This new, and more personal set-up is perfectly geared to what I am trying to accomplish and eliminates many previous problems of faulty equipment and other people essentially tampering with the set-up. Working in my house also gives a unique flexability of hours as well as a comfortable, laid-back environment. Although there will always be more work to be done, Dead Air is definately stronger and more versatile than ever before, and I am constantly planning and completing upgrades of the studio.

As for how I have ended up working with digital media, for right now the answer simply has to do with the affordability of it. Not just with the cost of the machines, but the cost of the medium itself saving bands between $100 and $300 a session (hard disk time versus reel-to-reel tape). In trying to make studio recordings more accessable and convenient it seems only right to choose the more economic medium.