Analog and Digital Recording:
Ampex MM1200 2 inch 24/16 track
ProTools HD3 24 I/O
Vintage console:
MCI JH 400 32 channels (Custom built for Sigma NY in 1974)
New and Vintage Mics:
Nuemann U-67
Nuemann Km-184s
Coles 4038
RCA 77DX
AKG 414 B-Uls....
New and Vintage analog compressors:
Gates SA-39
Empirical Labs Distressors
Vintage DBX 162....
Powered Monitors:
Quested and Genelec
***Excellent sellection of vintage guitars, amplifiers, drums, keyboards, piano***
Lots and lots of sunlight!
New Residential apartment space for bands visiting from outside of Philadelphia!
New Kitchen, Shower, Lots of sunlight, Sleeps 6 people!
Rocket Cat Cafe, Ida May's Brunchery, Johnny Brenda's (the best new venue in Philadelphia) all right around the corner....
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Sounds Like
1929
Apollo Sunshine
Aroah
Ashtabula
The A-Sides
Audible
BC Camplight
Bebek
The Bigger Lovers
Big Mess Orchestra
Bitter, bitter weeks
Blood Feathers
The Mark Boyce Combo
Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears
The Burning Brides
Butterfly Joe
Canadian Invasion
The Capitol Years
Nick Castro
Charlie B. Faye
Come Down
Cordalene
Danielson
Deathpool
Delegate
The Diane Linkletter Experience
DiMazza
Doublehorse
The Echo Orbiter
Eltro
Emma
Espers
Frog Holler
Future Tips
Garden State
Hail Social
Hilliard
Hoots and Hellmouth
Jon Train
Kandy Whales
Patrick Kauffman
Ken
Kettle
Kincaid
Knife and Fork Band
The Knobs
Knodel
Late Night Television
Latimer
Joseph Lee
Lefty’s Deceiver
The Legend of Boggy Creek
Los Halos
The Lost Man
The Low Budgets
The Lucys
Man Man
The Marinernine
Matt Pond PA
Mazarin
Meisha
Milton and the Devil’s Party
Motor
Motikos
Marissa Nadler
The Natural History
The Novenas
Okay Paddy
One Star Hotel
Joshua Olmstead
Julia Othmer
Photon Band
Reizoko
Ruby Keeler
Rugboy
The Scrags
She-Haw
Mike Simons
The Situation
Slo-mo
So’s Your Mom
Strapping Fieldhands
Stunt Double
The Sugar Skulls
Swearing at Motorists
The Swimmers
The Swirlies
Swisher
Tabloid Society
THunder in the Valley
Kevin Tihista
Tintinabulous
Trolleyvox
Trouble Everyday
The Trouble with Sweeney
Ultra Bide
Undergirl
The Valerie Project
Washington Social Club
Wayward Wind
Greg Weeks
White Trash and the Trust Fund Baby
Zetamale
Miner Street Recordings is the home of Producer Brian McTear, and Engineer Amy Morrissey.
Usually associated with the independent rock scene in Philadelphia from1997 to the present (Mazarin, Matt Pond PA, Espers, Danielson), McTear's musical endeavors began in high school performing and writing songs with his band The Marinernine (AKA Mariner 9).
During the Mariner nine years, McTear and band mate Jason Knight began operating a small recording studio in their college apartment living room. The thinking was that it'd be cheaper to invest in their own reccoring equipment and make their own albums than to pay someone else to do it for them (it didn't take long to realize the opposite is true). Nonetheless, there they recorded the Lucys, The Diane Linkletter Experience and many others. By 1996 Miner Street Recordings moved to Manayunk in Philadelphia, hoping to be near bands like Bardo Pond and the Lilys, and where they began to record local artists such as Eltro, The Trouble with Sweeney and many others .
In 1999, after Knight moved to California, McTear partnered with Live Sound Engineer Gary Ferenchak (GWAR, Good Charlotte), who ran a studio, Cycle Sound in a larger space across the street from Miner Street.
From 1999 to 2005, they built the studio into an impressive vintage analog/digital hybrid. There McTear produced Matt Pond PA’s Measure, The Green Fury, and The Nature of Maps, Mazarin’s Watch it Happen, Tall Tale Story Line, and We’re Already There, The Bigger LoversHoney in the Hive (with Producer Thom Monahan) and This Affair Never Happened, The Capitol YearsJewelry Store EP (also with Thom Monahan), BC Camplight’s Hide, Run Away, Hail Social’s Hail Social, Apollo Sunshine's Apollo Sunshine and The A-sidesHello Hello. Also in that time, McTear engineered and/or mixed EspersEspers, and The Weed Tree, and Danielson’s Ships.
In 2002, McTear was named Best Producer by the Philadelphia CityPaper. In that same year, he began his own musical project, Bitter bitter weeks. In late 2002, the self titled debut Bitter bitter weeks was awarded 2003’s Best Record Already, by the Citypaper’s A.D. Amorosi, and in December 2002, McTear was featured on the Citypaper cover.
In 2004, with new partner and Co-Producer Amy Morrissey, Bitter bitter weeks’ Revenge was released.
In the Spring of 2005, McTear and Morrissey, wrote and recorded the film score for Pennsylvania director Lance Weiler's second movie, Head Trauma. Weiler's love for the avant-gard, and admiration for McTear's old band The Marinernine brought them together for the project.
In late 2005, McTear and Morrissey designed and built a new home for Miner Street Recordings in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Fishtown. There they have produced BC Camplight’s Blink of a Nihilist, Hail Social’s Modern Love and Death, The A-sidesSilver Storms, WXPN Artists to Watch - Hoots and Hellmouth's debut record, as well as a third Bitter bitter weeks album, Peace is burning like a river, and Morrissey’s debut band project, The NovenasThe Novenas (all released in 2007). McTear also mixed Espers II and many other excellent recordings in the new space.
In 2007 McTear and Morrissey recorded The Valerie Project, a new soundtrack to an old film from the Czek Republic put together by Greg Weeks, Brooke Seitenson and a whole crew of others from the Philadelphia world of psychedelic folk. They also recorded the fabulously insane Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears second album (first with a full band... and an amazing one at that), called Flight of the Knife.
Additionally in 2007, MinerStreet has become the stopping ground for other engineers in the Philadelphia area including Nicholas Krill (Spinto Band, Okay Paddy), Bill Moriarty (Dr. Dog, Man Man, Thunder in the Valley from Minneapolis), and the young but impressively talented Jonathon Low and Joe Bisirri (Matt Duke,East Hundred, Hoots and Hellmouth).
In 2008, McTear produced albums for Canadian Invasion, Blue Sinatra, Milton and the Devil's Party, Adams Wilson, East Hundred, The Mural and the Mint, MeWithoutYou (with Daniel Smith), and Greg Foreman's The Rarebirds. He also mixed albums for Like a Fox, Hoots and Hellmouth,Audible,Woven Hand,Dan Zimmerman, Greg Weeks,Soul Junk,Jennifer Gloeckner, Paper Trigger,and Missing Palmer West.
Brian ~ I think I could use some assistance/help discovering my "solo voice" sometime. Perhaps we can work something out. PS, I'm still dreaming of that SG....and Space Echo. -Nate
