Wasted City is a recording studio, practice space, show space, multi-purpose entity located 5 minutes from downtown Burlington in Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester, VT.
Seven Days piece on Wasted City:
"The Burlington music scene suffered a significant loss when Daryl Rabidoux and Co. packed up shop and moved their superb studio, Strangeways Recording, to Providence, R.I., earlier this year. While home recording is now easier than ever, there’s still something to be said for working with professional sound engineers, and it appears the Rabidoux void is about to be filled.
Justin Gonyea, guitarist for local hardcore heroes Romans, is opening a new recording studio/multi-use facility in a renovated warehouse in Fort Ethan Allen called Wasted City. The 1700-square-foot space is slated to feature the typical studio accoutrements: a control room, live room and isolation booth. But the real clincher is the old-school equipment Gonyea plans to employ to record local musicians.
The centerpiece of this gear-head’s wet dream is a 24-track analog mixing board that he uses to record directly to ADAT tape machines. No fancy-schmancy ProTools here, kiddies. Line up studio time now.
Wasted City should be open any day now. It will also have a room that Gonyea will make available for performance or rehearsal."
Quote from Romans record review in Seven Days:
"Justin Gonyea once manned the kit for the now-defunct Fire the Cannons, but it’s on the six-string that he truly shines. He’s also an able recording engineer — Gonyea tracked the entirety of Wrists at his former house in Lincoln and mixed it in a B-town apartment. Everything sounds fantastic, with a fine balance struck between sludgy pummel and instrumental detail. Shockingly, there were no computers used in the recording process. Nowadays, that’s like ordering a burger that isn’t made from steroid-injected, antibiotic-laden beef: possible, but not easy."
Justin Gonyea - Recording Engineer/Producer with a sweet tooth for old school gear. Not at all limited to any specific genre, and definitely well versed in the polar extremes, I just love music. From the heaviest metal to ambient soundscapes and acoustic guitars, I want to record it!
PS. Tell me when you want me to bring my keyboard over so we can come up with some sweet lounge/hip-hop shit that makes all the fly hunnies shake their bon-bons.
