AES 2009 and Elysia

Met the very nice people from Elysia at AES in NYC. Got to check out their hi-tech new MusEq and the amazing Mpressor.

Black Taxi studio footage

Here's some nice video of Black Taxi recording their album 'Things of That Nature' at The Bunker

New ProTools HD3 system and more crazy outboard!!!

We are super excited to have just installed our new quad core intel mac pro, and our new PCIe ProTools HD3 Accel rig... We now have tons of processing power and the same awesome sounding Lynx converters.

Joel Hamilton dropped off a bunch of gear here, including his Pultec and a bunch of cool compressors... check out the website for a current list of gear!

Erik Deutsch 'Hush Money' now out.

Erik's record was tracked at The Bunker live, with a full rhythm section and woodwinds, to our Studer A80. It's some beautiful instrumental music written by one of our favorite keyboardists. Here's what Erik has to say about the record...

'With layers of keyboards, guitars and woodwinds, Erik Deutsch's Hush Money is not your usual jazz album. The versatile keyboardist and composer is known recently for his work alongside guitarist Norah Jones, Charlie Hunter, Erin McKeown, Trevor Dunn, Ron Miles, and Blue Note artist Kristina Train.

The session was recorded to analog tape at The Bunker in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Deutsch and guitarist/producer Jonathan Goldberger mixed at his Greenpoint studio, working together to create the soundscape that makes Hush Money unique.'

Our newest client

Eyal Maoz's Edom out now on Tzadik!

Eyal's new record with his band Edom is out on Tzadik records. John recorded and mixed it in May 2009, and it was mastered by Scott Hull. The music is part free jazz, part 80's electro, part noise rock, and part traditional-Jewish music... it made for a really fun session with lots of gated reverb and insane synth and guitar sounds.

http://www.eyalmaozmusic.com/

Ben Goldberg album

The Ben Goldberg album is now out...featuring the talents of Charlie Hunter, Ron Miles, Scott Amendola

LOTS OF MIXING!

We've been super busy mixing lots of records this summer. We recently finished an EP for Mouchette and Black Taxi's debut full length (produced by Aaron), both mixed by Aaron and John. John tracked and mixed Edom's latest release for Tzadik Records and mixed Werewolves debut full length LP.

Aaron is gearing up to produce Mixtape's new record, and John will be producing new material for The Royal Chains and Matt Lowell this fall.

We're also offering mix packages with a flat rate of $200 a song, so if you've got songs you've been working on, and the mixes just won't go where you need them, give us a call.

Converter upgrade & Protools HD

We just put in a 32 channel Protools HD rig at the studio. Running a pair of Lynx Aurora 16 channel converters the new system sounds great. It enables us to run Protools HD 8 and Logic Studio 9 either as stand alone systems or alongside the Radar 24.

New releases

New releases from The Bunker

Wakey!Wakey! - War Sweater EP
Avi Fox-Rosen - Welcome to the Show
Scott Stein - Jukebox
Orly Terkasher - EP
JDT - Inventing the Wheel (June 29)
Mouchette - Orchids to Ashes (mid-June)

Construction---ouch

We're in the middle of putting in a new ceiling in the live room and iso-booths. This will also give us the chance for a slight redesign of the space and better storage. Right now we're in sheet-rock hell but hopefully all will be back to normal and better by the end of the week.

Natalie Walker Live @ The Bunker

Natalie Walker has released an EP recorded live at The Bunker. The music was originally recorded to go with a video footage of the band performing live in studio but when it sounded so good Dorado Records decided to release it separately. It was all performed live with no overdubs or vocal fixes and was a fun thing to do with a 3 person camera crew squeezed in as well...

JDT Photos

Photos from the JDT sessions at Ray Sohn's website www.http://rsohn.com/

Scares The Daylights

Just finished tracking Neil Lipuma's band 'Scares the Daylights'. We tracked the full record this weekend and will mix in a couple of weeks.

Shortwave Sunshine

In the studio this weekend with Shortwave Sunshine. Basic tracking for 2 days for a new album...the session went super smooth tracking to Radar and then transferred to Logic for them to take home to finish up overdubs. They got 9 songs with basics done including a fun last one featuring clarinet, ukelele and quattro.

Website update

The Bunker website is redesigned, streamlined and viewable on all your portable devices now. The gear, client lists are up to date and we added new photos, video and a handy FAQ section.

Website

Helen Sung Live

Just recorded Helen Sung live at Jazz Standard in NYC. What a great band!! Seamus Blake on saxes, Lonnie Plaxico on bass and Eric Harland on drums. A record definitely worth checking out when it is released...

New records

Started work on producing a record for Matt Dorrien, a recent addition to the NYC music scene. Matt just won the Williamsburg songwriting contest and has some awesome tunes...

Also just finished the Scott Stein record which should be out soon.

New stuffs

Just added a new patchbay and new gear including an SSL Bus compressor, Drawmer 1968 stereo compressor, Daking FET compressor and another Daking Mic Pre/EQ. With the reorganization of the control room we have a whole bunch of new possibilities for tracking and mixing.

NAMM 2009

John and I went out with Jojo Mayer and Nerve to play Sabian night at NAMM this year. John has been playing bass with Jojo for years and I've just started doing live sound for the band. For both of us it was our 1st visit to the insanity that is NAMM. Some of our favorite picks from the show were the new Korg rackmount DSD recorder, & Microkorg XL in sexy new colors, with a new new design and engine. Also the Rupert Neve console was looking super nice and they have some new AD/DA comverters heading to market that should be pretty cool. Wade from Chandler was showing some new 500 series EQ and compressors that sounded great too. The guys at Subdecay pedals were super nice and we hung out with them watching Blues Saraceno check out their range. My faves of theirs are the new Echo Delay, Noise Box, Liquid Sunshine and some crazy filtery Octave Fuzz thing that deosn't seem to be out yet.


There was so much more that we didn't get a chance to see but we definitely checked out some cool new products and met some great people.

More photos over on our
Facebook page.

Erik Deutsch session

Had a great session over the weekend with keyboardist/composer Erik Deutsch (Charlie Hunter Trio). Some awesome music and excellent musicians made this a super fun sesh. Instrumentation was keys, bass, drums, guitar, woodwinds, bassoons, bari sax, tpt. Tracking an ensemble this large live, (to the 2" Studer) is what The Bunker is all about:)

Hoping to get some photos soon.

New Blog

We've decided to blog as well as redesiging the website to keep you up to date on current sessions, photos, new gear and other happenings in the world of The Bunker.

Thanks for reading and we'll be putting up new content asap.

Cheers
Aaron & John