@troubledclef.com
Record producer, engineer and mixer at Troubled Clef Studios. We're in the final stages of building one of the world's premier recording studios, in the heart of Mexico. In the beautiful town of San Miguel de Allende. www.troubledclef.com
Nuff said.
I have to buy this for my acoustician team.
Update: Our live room in the studio is coming together. The flooring is being installed and the sheer size of the place is starting to show.
Recorded, mixed & mastered this live performance last Saturday night here in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico of the band "Holly Funk". One of the songs from their performance. Enjoy!
audius.co/troubledclef...
The one that got away...
X is hacked and offline. But here I am posting on Bluesky. Gotta love it.
Oh, to be a fly on the wall...
We made it to Mexico! 4 Days of driving, and lots of events along the way. But finally we are here with our gear. Here's the full details.
www.troubledclef.com/news/details...
First doors are being installed in the studio now. Starting to look like a real building.
Quick studio update... This is the size of the building now it has all the construction elements complete. We are moving to the interior now, and focusing on acoustic properties and room tunings to start with.
Adelaide, the city I was born in & lived until I was 25 yrs old, had me cross paths with the great Ben Folds in the late 90s. 25 years later, he returned to play at the Thebarton Theater with South Australia symphony orchestra - in which I was in the junior symphony as a kid violinist. Small world.
In 1995, I went to Guitar Center on Sunset Blvd, Hollywood to buy a guitar. Didn't realize they were doing a presentation for Brian Setzer (Stray Cats) on their "Walk of Fame". As I was leaving the parking lot I almost drove over Brian. Thank god I didn't hit him. But now this...
Back from a road trip to Palm Springs to see my friend Alvin Taylor, the legendary drummer for Little Richard, George Harrison, Bob Welch, Eric Burdon and countless others. Alvin cherry picked cymbals for our house kit, and they are all on the truck to San Miguel next week.
Great news for 2025 (and we sure need some)...
Black Mirror returns for Season 7.
youtu.be/upsbyqPgt8Q
I don't blame you. If I were in your position I would have done the same.
Next they will change Ukraine's name to "Trumpland".
Of course he will. The roi will be 1000x that.
Musicians have always led the charge to revolt against what they knew threatened the human experience. Woody Guthrie famously penned the song "Old Man Trump", to fight against slumlord tactics of Fred Trump, father of Donald Trump.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man...
It is officially out and available for sale. The first CD from Troubled Clef Studios from San Miguel de Allende - "Best of Sunset Theater 2024".
Available online here:
www.troubledclef.com/store
This is our reverb room and this is special. In my entire working life in studios, the only studio I ever worked in that had one was Capitol Records basement studio. But that is temp closed for earthquake work. Today most use digital reverbs but this is a unique part of our studio in Mexico.
The one thing that is under-appreciated in studios is working in a fluid manner with the client. There is a real art in doing punch-ins for engineers, and the way of Pro Tools or DAWs for this is not fluid. Tape machines (and digital recorders like mine) work in a much more "musical" way.
About 20 years ago, I got this 24 track hard disk recorder which is incredible. Today I was successfully able to hack it to use solid state storage, adding decades to its usable life expectancy.
If anyone is interested, Marty posts on YouTube periodically. This is his channel:
www.youtube.com/@indeepmusic...
To summarize, Atmos is a solution looking for a problem. It has great support for the distributors, but lacks support for creators who can't earn from it, and consumers who are not wanting it. Supporting the troll on the bridge isn't a viable business model IMHO.
I don't ultimately think that Atmos is dead. I think it is an amazing technology, but it comes down to consumer take up. No one is rushing out to buy sound systems for it. Those audiophiles are still buying physical media and hifi systems. Without consumer demand pulling, it won't work.
Streaming only supports the media companies, labels, etc. that have the budget. It creates a disparity between the music creators and the music distributors. It also alienates the listening audience, doesn't support physical media and is very "Apple centric". I'm not sure this is a good ecosystem.
