The day we tracked Exit 18’s single, hello u’r mine, we also tracked the title track from their new album – Incantations. We wheeled the (very old) upright piano that lives in Studio B’s lounge into Studio A, installed a light in it, and a 4K Nikon camera (held in place with the lid). Julia Perry proceeded to perform inspiring takes at the piano – presenting acoustic challenges for Chuck who had to contend with the drums and piano in the same space (Rafi wanted the drums in the big room – for a huge rock sound)… Anyway – check out their performance – which is nothing short of mesmerizing. All performed live!
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Coral Moons – Gasoline – Live From the Q Region*
Coral Moon’s cover of HAIM’s Gasoline sort of snuck up on us; it was an extra credit song that we captured during a quick session, and we just love the way it turned out.
Chuck Hargreaves recorded and mixed this, and Rafi Sofer shot and edited it. Jay Kolp hung out and helped on the session.
Coral Moons – Live From the Q Region*
We’re starting a new series we’re calling Live From the Q Region*! It will feature performances captured LIVE in Studio A, on “tape” and video:). Studio A can support all sorts of madness, including multi camera shoots and live tracking.
We’re kicking off the series with Coral Moons performing their song Made Up My Mind, and we’ll follow that up with songs from Exit 18. Want to get featured on Live From the Q Region*? Drop us a line and we’ll chat!
Count Zero – Live at Q Division
We were incredibly happy to host local icons Count Zero a couple of months ago for a very ambitious project. They wanted to perform their new record “thought so,” AND a bunch of older songs, live with and without an audience, while we multi tracked the show AND filmed with multiple cameras.
This session would require the highest possible quality of recording (including isolation), careful lighting, and multiple cameras and angles, alongside live sound reinforcement for the audience, and in ear monitoring for the band. We spent quite a bit of time getting to know the material and plotting the set up – and working through all the possible technical pitfalls we’d run into. The band booked two days – one entire day was dedicated to set up, then to recording/performing the set once with out an audience. On the second day we ran through the set at least one more time – with costume changes, and then the audience rolled in and they performed the set a final time (two sets, to be exact). We were able to capture a full multi track of the performance, mix the show live for the in house audience, and capture as many as 7-9 cameras of the performance (oh, and we also ran a secret livestream out to close friends and family of the band:).
Chuck Hargreaves engineered the recording, Izaak Biewald assisted and mixed the live sound, Rafi Sofer oversaw the entire production and took care of lights and cameras, with additional help provided by Q interns Kieh Blevins and Lydia Hazzard-Lael.
Peter Moore and Will Ragano (of the band) mixes and edited the resulting videos – check out this one for their song SOUTH.
Check out With A Feather – featuring keyboardist Jude Heichelbech on lead vocals
And here’s Big Wig, featuring Will Ragano on lead vocals (Will also edited all these videos):
And… Tail Bites Dog:
And their hit, Radium Eyes:
And one more…
Alisa Amador on The Kelly Clarkson Show – Recorded in Studio A
Alisa Amador came to Q to shoot a live version of her song ‘Enough’ for The Kelly Clarkson Show. Backed by the incredible Cilla Bonnie on bass and long time friend of Q, Dave Brophy on drums, it was magic in gorgeous Studio A! Chuck Hargreaves recorded and engineered and Dave Brophy mixed.
Alisa Amador made history in 2022 as the first-ever Spanish language song to win the Tiny Desk Contest and has since gone on to release her highly praised first full length album Multitudes.
