Marco Delmar - Producer/Engineer Marco has been voted Producer of the Year by the Washington Area Music Association (WAMA) for the past nine years and been nominated for Studio Engineer of the Year for the past nine years, winning 4 times. Marco has also produced and engineered projects at BIAS, Avalon, BeBop Productions, Inner Ear, and many other top recording studios in the Washington DC area. Marco has garnered a client base that includes emmet swimming, Lisa Moscatiello, Esmirelda, Janine Wilson, Patty Reese, Esmirelda and the Tidbits, A Month of Sundays, Jennifer on Sunday, Cletus Kennelly, Margot MacDonald and many other national, local and regional acts. Many of Marco's clients are WAMA award winners. Marco is also the former guitar player for the Elektrics, a New York-based band that was signed to Capitol Records.
Antonio Pacheco - Engineer Antonio joined Recording Arts in 2002, just after he graduated from Full Sail with a degree in Audio Engineering. Antonio combines the techniques of the analog masters with the savvy of computer technology in the digital realm. His technical skills are held to such acclaim that he has been quoted in an article in the Washington Post and has been nominated Engineer of the Year by WAMA for the past four years. He is noted for the limitless possibilities that he creates while in the recording studio. He has also mastered projects for emmet swimming, Esmirelda, Nikki Rouse, Mike Grebb and many other local and regional musicians.
Michael Ivey - Producer/Arranger/Songwriter
Michael is a Producer/Arranger/Songwriter for the band Basehead (Imago/BMG International Records/Koch) and byob (13records/Rykodisc). His project has received rave reviews in Rolling Stone, the highest rating and top ten album of the year from Spin and numerous other favorable reviews in national, regional, and local publications. He wrote music for the French film J'ai pas Sommell (I'm Not Sleepy) which was directed by Claire Denis and won an award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Stephanie Milne - Engineer Stephanie started at Recording Arts in 2003 while earning a B.S. in Audio Technology at American University in Washington, DC. At school, she completed many projects including Dime-A-Dozen (a school a capella group), Harrison (a local university rock band), and working with Philadelphia producer Mark Sarisky to record tracks for recent WAMA nominee, Stella Mira, on their first full length album. Since graduating, she has worked with many of the bands that have come through Recording Arts' doors doing tracking and mixing on everything from gospel and country to hip-hop, rock, and jazz. Having an outgoing personality and a love for all things musical gives her a special talent for being able to work with any artist to capture their unique sound.
Ken Barnum - Producer/Engineer Ken Barnum has been working in sound since 1995, starting by running live sound for his band. He attended Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA, graduating in 2002 with a Bachelor of Music in Commercial Music (specializing in Recording and Engineering). Since then, Ken has toured with his former band, 33 West and produced, mixed, and engineered several projects for bands including 33 West, Crash Boom Bang, One Third Dork and More.
Influences
Rx Bandits, Chicago, Elektrics, Prince, Thrice, The Mars Volta, Dashboard Confessional, Death Cab for Cutie, John Ralston, Bob Dylan, Postal Service, Boston, Sunny Day Real Estate, Coldplay, Morphine, Ashlee Simpson, U2, Led Zepplin, Aerosmith, Dave Matthews Band, Barenaked Ladies, Bad Brains, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Everclear, Journey, and Blind Melon.
ANYTHING LOCAL, support your area music scene!
Sounds Like
Dave Alberding
Mark Austin
Basehead
Bittersweet Manics
Ann Blair
Boomslang
Don Bridges
Jay Britton
Cinged Blues
Clyde 55
Margot MacDonald
Carey Colvin
Billy Coulter
Rachel Cross
Gina DeSimone
Ben Dixon
emmet swimming
Esmirelda and the Tidbits
The Furies
Amikaeyla Gaston
Drew Gibson
Steven Gellman
Glassoline
Gravity's Pull
Mike Grebb
Meghan Hayes
Honky Tonk Confidential
Instant G
Lori Kelly
Cletus Kennelly
Kevin Levi
Jennifer on Sunday
Jake Laufer
Eric Maring
The Martians
Martini Red
Modern Yesterday
A Month of Sundays
Leah Morgan
Lisa Moscatiello
October Skies
Ode to Abbey
Jesse Palidofsky
Doug Parsons
Patty Reese
Rotoscope
Nikki Rouse
Morgan Rowe
The Seductones
Sev
Verlette Simon
Smartbomb
Alex Summers
Supermack
Michelle Swan
Lisa Taylor
Taleen
3LG
Craig Toomey
Touch
Eric Ulreich
Virginia and the Blue Dots
Erik Wenberg
Gadget White
Janine Wilson
Xyra and Verborgen
Zeala
Recording Arts, L.L.C. is an artist-oriented production company and recording facility that unites award winning area producers, managers, engineers and computer specialists who have all worked with major labels as well as local and regional musical acts. This full service organization offers a state of the art 2" 24 track analog recording facility featuring an Amek "Big" Console with "super true" automation and virtual dynamics. A wide range of first class microphones (Neumann, Beyer/Dynamic, AKG, Sennheiser, etc.), outboard effects processors and 200 track hard disk digital recording and editing with Nuendo make the studio a complete professional facility. Previous clients include Luaka Bop/Warner Brother Records, Epic/Sony Records, Jireh/MCA Records, Shanachie/ Koch Records, Sire/Warner Records, Emigre, 8 Ball, Rykodisc and many others. The facility offers pre-production, production, producers, engineers, digital editing and music business consultation. Winner of the 2004 Washington Area Music Award for Best Recording Studio!
Hola! Long time no contact! I've been itching to record at least *one song* ASAP. :) Therefore, I hope to see you soon, Marco!!! (need to talk details pre:recording, too.) Looking forward to participating in your studio like you *wouldn't* believe. ;) I also, by the way, heard what you mastered of Mr. B.R's. Not only does your bass playing kick some major ass,but .. WOW. Awesome results!!! Hopefully I'll see ya soon!! 'Night!
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