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Stereo Sessions – Angel Snow w/ Robby Hecht “Photographs”

We are excited to announce the next in our video series, Stereo Sessions, from The Toy Box Studio. Here Angel Snow performs “Photographs” with a fantastic band. Angel and Robby Hecht stopped in for a night of music to a full house audience. It was an otherwise quiet Monday evening for the rest of East Nashville. But at The Toy Box Studio it was standing room only and hardly a place to put your wine glass down as Robby and Angel played a shared set of original music with a handful of covers thrown in (under the band name Martha And The Martians). Backing them up was a very talented band made up of some of the best of East Nashville: Robby Hecht on acoustic guitar and vocals, Angel Snow on acoustic guitar and vocals, Adam Gardner on bass, Jonathan Trebing on acoustic guitar, Jordan Hamlin electric guitar , and Katie Gifford on background vocals.

Stereo Sessions is a live event created at The Toy Box Studio (Elijah “Lij” Shaw) in collaboration with Cage Free Visual (Michael Trebing) , and Phat Magnet (Michael Lovett).

We invite artists to perform in front of a small studio audience creating a relaxed atmosphere away from the stage. At The Toy Box Studio the artist can express themselves in an intimate setting. The songs are mixed live through the famous MCI console (the same one that recorded Hotel California and Saturday Night fever) in real time and printed to analog tape in “live to two track” fashion. Lij Shaw has spent years learning this technique backstage at the Bonnaroo festival with The Toy Box Hay Studio.

At Bonnaroo The Toy Box Hay Studio has recorded hundreds of bands for national radio broadcast all from within a small recording studio built of hay. Stereo Sessions brings this unique recording style back to The Toy Box Studio in East Nashville. Our intent is to share with you a real performance that keeps the little mistakes that define a performance’s character, as well as the inspired moments that make it great. Honest musical communication between human beings makes for beautiful recordings. We add video to the process to let you feel like you are there at the session. We plan to bring you many more of your favorite artists. Stay tuned to Stereo Sessions and thank you for watching and listening!

Cheers!

Lij

Stereo Sessions – Robby Hecht w/ Angel Snow “Thirty”

We are excited to announce the first in our new video series, Stereo Sessions, from The Toy Box Studio. Robby Hecht and Angel Snow stopped in for a night of sweet music to a full house audience. It was an otherwise quiet Monday evening for the rest of East Nashville. But at The Toy Box Studio it was standing room only and hardly a place to put your wine glass down as Robby and Angel played a shared set of original music peppered with a handful of covers (under the band name Martha And The Martians). Backing them up was a very talented band made up of some of the best of Nashville: Robby Hecht on acoustic guitar and vocals, Angel Snow on acoustic guitar and vocals, Adam Gardner on bass, Jonathan Trebing on acoustic guitar, Jordan Hamlin electric guitar , and Katie Gifford on background vocals.

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Stereo Sessions is a live event created at The Toy Box Studio (Elijah “Lij” Shaw) in collaboration with Cage Free Visual (Michael Trebing) , and Phat Magnet (Michael Lovett).

We invite artists to perform in front of a small studio audience creating a relaxed atmosphere away from the stage. At The Toy Box Studio the artist can express themselves in an intimate setting. The songs are mixed live through the famous MCI console (the same one that recorded Hotel California and Saturday Night fever) in real time and printed to analog tape in “live to two track” fashion. Lij Shaw has spent years perfecting this technique backstage at the Bonnaroo festival with The Toy Box Hay Studio.

First Studio School Session Jan 26 2013

The Toy Box Studio is psyched to announce that our first Studio School will take place this saturday Jan 26th at noon! We are teamed up with J Pierson of Reggaerica to provide teaching from the studio. Please contact lij@thetoyboxstudio.com if you are interested in attending. We are building our syllabus this go around and offering the first class Jan 26th for free! We only ask of the students that they provide thoughtful feedback to let us know how we can improve future classes. There will be more introductory classes to come as well as master classes in the future that will go deeper into detail.

Our first class is “Introduction to Tracking Sessions”. We will be miking up a band for tracking, and then move into overdubs to finish out a track during the 6 hour session. We plan to give insight into all the aspects of the session as we go and explain many of the things that dont really get covered in a traditional college recording course. The class will touch on real world skills and problem solving during the session. Rather than focusing on “state of the art” equipment we will be focusing on skills that an engineer and producer can bring to any recording session. Students will learn how to trouble shoot and workaround many of the typical obstacles that arise during a session.

While many teaching programs offer access to expensive gear and highlight the studio’s benefits we plan to focus on empowering the engineer with skills that can be applied in any studio situation. A recording session should finish with the client singing praises for the engineer first and for the studio second. We want to help students on the path toward that recognition. Lij Shaw will be teaching the class, has 25 years of experience recording in studios all across the country, and enjoys sharing what he has learned along the way. Our goal with Studio School is to enable students to walk into any studio large or small and be prepared to make great records!

We are grateful to the Daniel Walker Band for providing music for the session.

Cheers!

Lij