Kenyon Hall's Guerrilla Recording Studio with Steve Fisk and John Goodmanson

KENYON HALL’S

Guerrilla Recording Studio with Steve Fisk & John Goodmanson

Monday Evenings October 21st - November 11th, 2024

4-hour session: 6:30pm - 10:30pm

- $400 to attend all 4 evening workshops
- Limited to 12 participants. 
- Advance reservation required. 

Noted Seattle veteran record producers Steve Fisk (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pigonhed, Solo  Artist) and John Goodmanson (Sleater-Kinney, Wu-Tang Clan, Blood Brothers, Blonde  Redhead) will open students eyes and ears to the magic that can be made from your bedroom, basement and even your local arts hall. Over the course of four consecutive Mondays in October and November the duo will be discussing and teaching on the topics of recording, producing and mixing in the current production environment and on a budget!

Where: Kenyon Hall - 7904 35th Ave SW Seattle, WA

When: Mondays in October 21 and November 2024, 6:30 pm-10:30 pm 

What We Will Talk About: Making what used to be called records. The focus of these workshops will be primarily on recording and mixing music made by bands and songwriters with traditional rock instrumentation – Guitars, Bass, Live Drums, Vocals. There will be specific discussion about: 

- Recording Live Drums. 

- Recording outside of a traditional studio environment. 

- Recording on a budget.

- Creative and inventive ways to “make it work”

- Keeping things running smoothly (recording session workflow) 

- Basic mixing techniques

Who It’s For: Aspiring record producers, engineers, and mixers who have a basic  understanding of the modern recording process. 

Musicians with an interest in the recording process, or who, by necessity, are recording  themselves and would like to know how to make the process easier and sound better. 

What WILL NOT be covered: MIDI. How to use recording software. How to succeed  in the music business. Marketing your music. 

We will be talking from experience about making records - what has worked for us and  what hasn’t and why, how we approach working with bands and musicians and how to apply  current technology to creating music for commercial release. 

Evening 1, Oct 21, 2024: Overview of the process – how we make records (between the two  of us, hundreds of records) w/ Q and A and specific examples. Recording live drums at Kenyon Hall. 

Evening 2, Oct 28, 2024: Recording guitar and bass
Evening 3, Nov 4, 2024: Recording vocals and keyboards

Evening 4, Nov 11, 2024: Mixing and mastering techniques