Can Anything Good Come From…Elkhart?

Posted on 12. Feb, 2015 by Tim Bushong in News

No offense to my friends who live there, but we used to dread driving from here in Syracuse to where our singer, Dave Loren, lived in Berrien Springs, Michigan, because it meant that we had to make the trip through…Elkhart! Aaaagh…nowadays, county road 17 just shoots straight up through everything (love it!), but back then [...]

Southern Straightaway Country

Posted on 26. Jul, 2014 by Tim Bushong in News

Sure is authentic, county-fried country music, yessir. Bassist Dan Tanner and co. rolled into town back in the end of May to begin recording their new album. Now, I can’t play any samples (yet), but I’ll just say that it’s some swampy, stompy, down-to-earth country goodness from a bunch of ex-rockers. Here’s the deal: sometimes [...]

Drive the Nail Home

Posted on 14. Apr, 2014 by Tim Bushong in News

Well, it is finally finished—the “Shiny Shiny Black” project, “{Travelers}” , is recorded, mixed, mastered, and now being manufactured. They say you never really finish a record—you just stop—but I can now say that the fork has been stuck into the roast, the last coat of paint has been applied, and the final nail in [...]

Sirface—Unplugged!?!?!?

Posted on 13. Feb, 2014 by Tim Bushong in News

I’ve been a fan of, and worked with, the band “Sirface” for almost 14 years now. I’ll never forget their first visit here in early 2000—Jared Pagan, walking up to the back door of the (then) 16×16 studio space, was overheard as saying “Guys—this is gonna suck”! Little did he know the metal insanity that [...]

“I’m Gonna Set My Sail…”

Posted on 13. Feb, 2014 by Tim Bushong in News

Very belated update on this CD—Nick Stanton‘s “Set My Sail” album, which was released back in December, has a nice, big sound that is due to a nice, big voice and some nice, big sounds. Nick contacted me way back in the summer of 2013 to see if I could mix a bunch of songs—and [...]

Mixing Pinestock Live

Posted on 28. Sep, 2013 by Tim Bushong in News

My good friend Nick Weaver and his business partner have put together a cool, one-night local music festival called Pinestock, held just northwest of Churubusco, Indiana. This year almost every band’s performance was captured live on an HD24 Alesis 24-track digital recorder, and the tracks then came to your truly for mixing and mastering. It [...]

Out of Commission

Posted on 20. Sep, 2013 by Tim Bushong in News

UPDATE: The 328—she lives! Thanks to Max DeHaven, Stanford-edumacated electrical engineer/designer from Middlebury, the power supply is back online. It’s way better than it was for the last few months, and everything is stellar-sounding, but we’re even gonna go in again and swap out all of the funky caps next month. He had contacted me [...]

Sound Replacement Alchemy?

Posted on 20. Sep, 2013 by Tim Bushong in News

They say that you never really finish a record—you just stop, and I tend to agree with that. Chad VanMeter of Homeless J is a consummate artist. So much so that he has enough self-awareness and artistic courage to be able to take songs that have been around for a long time and make changes [...]

LOVES me some multi-instruments…

Posted on 09. Aug, 2013 by Tim Bushong in News

Yup-nothing like a little fiddle, banjo, and Hammond organ to bring some “Americana” to the game. The Shiny Shiny Black project is well under way… Lee Holderman on some massive keys: No pics yet of Shawn or the banjo player, but Nate and I went outdoors to record hand claps. We over dubbed like crazy, but [...]

Sunny? Sunny…

Posted on 22. Jul, 2013 by Tim Bushong in News

I’ve been privileged to work with Fort Wayne’s finest darling since 2000, and I helped to produce and engineer her 2007 release, Lock The Door And Leave. That record was big and full, and had such industry heavy-hitters playing on it as Phil Madeira on the B-3 and Chris Donohue on bass. This time around, [...]

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