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07/16/12 : Producers & Engineers Wing Shop Talk
• Thursday, July 26, 2012
• 6:00pm until 9:00pm
• The Recording Academy Pacific Northwest Chapter Presents:
Join Recording Academy members, music professionals, and Jackpot! Studio owner Larry Crane to network and explore a variety of equipment demos from Burl Audio. Refreshments provided.
FREE to Recording Academy members and anyone who would like to learn about or join The Recording Academy. To RSVP email pacificnw@grammy.com or call 206. 834.1000.
Jackpot Recording Studio
2420 SE 50th Ave, Portland, Oregon 97206-1532
06/30/11 : Larry Crane will be a judge at the Portland regional US Air Guitar Championships at Portland's Dante's on July 9th. Come down and see the insanity...
05/18/11 : Hear The Homefront Pt II from the album I mixed for My Sad Captains. I like this band a lot!
04/27/11 : We got interviewed and our photo taken for an article about Portland recording studios. Read it here!
12/ 3/10 : Having a blast mixing this young UK/London band's new album. Check them out here.
09/28/10 : Check out a track I recorded in August for a new band, LEVI, on their MySpace page. It's the song "Gold" and has ridiculous drum over compression and some neat sounds.
01/21/10 : My new instrumental (and older vocal) mix of Elliott Smith's "Angel in the Snow" was featured in the film Up in the Air. The song (as it appeared on the album New Moon) is also on the soundtrack CD, though of course I don't get credited in the liner notes.
01/10/10 : My mix of Elliott Smith's unreleased track "Cecelia/Amanda" has been posted for free download by Kill Rock Stars Records. Elliott and I tracked this in 1997 at Jackpot! and I mixed it there in 2009. Enjoy.
Jackpot! Recording Studio
I am the owner of Jackpot! Recording Studio, Inc., which began operations in 1997. In 2007 it moved into its current location in SE Portland, Oregon, next door to our pals at Hamptone. All audio wiring, audio treatment and studio design and layout was overseen by myself. The studio has been managed by Kendra Lynn since 2004, and is specifically designed to be friendly for freelance engineers. Jackpot! features a large, high ceilinged live room, three iso booths, 2-, 16- and 24-track analog tape decks, Pro Tools HD, a Rupert Neve Designs 5088 console, many outboard devices, instruments and a wide selection of microphones.
From 1994 to 1997 I ran Laundry Rules Recording from my home, which essentially morphed into Jackpot! in 1997.
From 1994 to 1997 I ran Laundry Rules Recording from my home, which essentially morphed into Jackpot! in 1997.
Freelance Producer/Engineer
Since 1994 I've worked on recordings for hundreds of artists, including Elliott Smith, Sleater-Kinney, Jenny Lewis, M. Ward, The Go-Betweens, Stephen Malkmus, The Decemberists, Quasi, Richmond Fontaine, Cat Power, Portland Cello Project, The Walkabouts, Viva Voce, Death Cab For Cutie, System and Station and Nels Cline Singers. These projects have been on labels like Capitol, Dreamworks, Kill Rock Stars, Sub Pop, Merge, K, Domino, Jetset, Bong Load, Hush, Cavity Search, Virgin, Matador, Rough Trade and Team Love. I have worked out of my Jackpot! Recording Studio in Portland, OR, as well as other studios in California, Arizona, New York, Washington, Oregon, Louisiana and Quebec. I've also worked on live remote recordings in Arizona, Nevada and Oregon.
As a producer I like to get very involved in the songs being recorded, working on the arrangements, choosing instruments and guiding the recordings along in more of an "old school" fashion. Engineering is second nature to me at this point. I'm comfortable with calibrating and running any sort of analog tape decks, tracking in Pro Tools, and have had a range of experiences in many types of studios. Recently I've been getting a lot of mixing jobs, from albums tracked in large pro studios to modest home recordings. Clients have been very happy with my work, and I feel my experience working on Elliott Smith's back catalog has taught me a lot about restoring audio quality to "less than perfect" recordings and getting the most out of a mix. It doesn't hurt that we have the fantastic Rupert Neve Designs 5088 console to mix through either! I moved back to Portland in 2012 and have been working out of Jackpot! all the time recently.
Incomplete discographies: AllMusic Discogs Album Credits
Testimonials:
"I haven't worked too much in recording studios, but I have worked with other people before. I was amazed by your patience, professionalism and demeanor. If I ever make it in this business, I will point to those sessions and say that that was when things began to click."
"These sound better than I ever could have hoped. Thanks for your time and energy. Better get your red tux ready for the Grammys" -BOAT
As a producer I like to get very involved in the songs being recorded, working on the arrangements, choosing instruments and guiding the recordings along in more of an "old school" fashion. Engineering is second nature to me at this point. I'm comfortable with calibrating and running any sort of analog tape decks, tracking in Pro Tools, and have had a range of experiences in many types of studios. Recently I've been getting a lot of mixing jobs, from albums tracked in large pro studios to modest home recordings. Clients have been very happy with my work, and I feel my experience working on Elliott Smith's back catalog has taught me a lot about restoring audio quality to "less than perfect" recordings and getting the most out of a mix. It doesn't hurt that we have the fantastic Rupert Neve Designs 5088 console to mix through either! I moved back to Portland in 2012 and have been working out of Jackpot! all the time recently.
Incomplete discographies: AllMusic Discogs Album Credits
Testimonials:
"I haven't worked too much in recording studios, but I have worked with other people before. I was amazed by your patience, professionalism and demeanor. If I ever make it in this business, I will point to those sessions and say that that was when things began to click."
"These sound better than I ever could have hoped. Thanks for your time and energy. Better get your red tux ready for the Grammys" -BOAT
Interviews with Larry
Interview with Sound Design Live
Interview at Square Cad
Glorious Noise: Elliott Smith's Archives (2009)Glorious Noise: Elliott Smith's Roman Candle remaster (2010)
Spinner.com and remastering Roman Candle
Glorious Noise: Elliott Smith's New Moon (2007)
Fake Science (2005)
Anvil Media (2004)
Oregon Music Guide (2004)
NeuMu Music News (2002)
ProSoundWeb: A Guided Tour of Jackpot! Studios (2002)
Chico News & Review: Backbeat (2001)
Interview by Jack Tremaine about Walkabouts CD (2001)
Interview in The Red Alert (2007)
How I ended up recording The Go-Betweens
An interview with Octoberman talking about LC session
Mix Engineer
I have been getting many mixing jobs lately, and I love the work. Whether your songs were tracked at home on modest equipment or in a nice studio setting, I have the skills, tools and experience to help bring the most out of your mix. At my Jackpot! Recording Studio I can from Pro Tools or 2-inch tape, through our fantastic Rupert Neve Designs console, and process tracks (as needed) with analog equipment (EQ/compression/tape delays/plate reverb/spring reverb/etc.) and either mix to the 1/4" MCI deck or back into Pro Tools as a stereo file (and frequently do both). These "old school" techniques bring life back to mixes that were previously choked from "in-the-box" mixing.
Among the artists I've mixed music for are Elliott Smith, Sleater-Kinney, The Go-Betweens, The Decemberists, Quasi, Richmond Fontaine, Portland Cello Project, Viva Voce, System and Station, The Black Heart Procession, The Dismemberment Plan, Luther Russell and Versus.
Email me for info on mixing and for rate quotes.
Among the artists I've mixed music for are Elliott Smith, Sleater-Kinney, The Go-Betweens, The Decemberists, Quasi, Richmond Fontaine, Portland Cello Project, Viva Voce, System and Station, The Black Heart Procession, The Dismemberment Plan, Luther Russell and Versus.
Email me for info on mixing and for rate quotes.