Me and Crystal at my fully renovated Holland recording studio(2003-2018). Worked with Crystal Bowersox American Idol (Season 9 - 2010) for over 10 years. She recorded over 30 songs for sale locally and showing the American Idol producers. She released a finished CD of those sessions. Crystal Bowersox + Frankie May - Once Upon a Time (2012). See on Amazon (she moved to Nashville)
I took art in high school too, so I made a drum lamp instead of an ash tray. This is my John Philip Sousa Band Award on top for show.
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Christopher P. Stoll
- - - Audio Engineer --- Sound and Music Instructor --- Percussionist –-- Composer
- - Head Audio Recording Engineer A1 / Producer / Owner / Chief Live Sound Engineer : 33 year - - College Instructor of Sound & Music / Recording Arts Technology Computer Lab Tech : 16 years - Owens Community College / Terra State CC / The Art Institute of Michigan / Washtenaw CC Lost teaching jobs because of the pandemic. - - Drummer / Percussionist / Teacher / Composer at UT college marching drum line and several local high schools. Played in marching band and percussion ensembles in high school (won John Philip Sousa Band Award: all blue medals in solo and ensembles) and college, The Adrian Symphony, Perrysburg Symphony Orchestra. During grad school, I performed in BGSU New Music Ensemble under Dr. Freeman Brown, Snake Farm: New Music Composer’s Ensemble BGSU (1990-1992) with Johnny A. Rodriguez (San Antonio), The Toledo Drum School Faculty Percussion Ensemble and West African Drum and Dance Ensemble with school director James Armstrong (1991-1996). Play drum set in prog rock and hippy jam bands at local and regional bars for a living, taught drum lessons in the basement of Daves' Drum Depot owned by Dave Gierke and Dave Fogle: 1984--1996 = 12 years. Now I just play for fun and fill in over 20 years. 20 Bands: over 2000 gigs over 30 years. Bachelor of Arts in Music / Percussion, I got a BA music degree instead of a BM or BE so that I could do other creative classes other than just to be a symphony percussionist or high school band director. Concentrations: classical percussion, marching percussion, choir, jazz band, concert band, pep band, the recording arts, electronic music, MIDI, film theory, video production, many drawing and painting classes. Studied with Dr. David Jex (composition), Dr. Joelle Collier (film/video), David Mariasy (recording arts/MIDI) and Bruce Golden (classical percussion, Toledo Symphony Orchestra principal percussionist). I was co-composer and co-director while playing in the UT marching drumline with Mark Swaile (he played with Phantom Regiment Drum Corp) for 4 years, 2 without, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, 1989. UT had a very good prosumer VHS editor decks system, so I had 5 videos as my final graded projects in Electronic Music Class with Dave Mariasy and video production classes. This included a dance with Kerri Lamy-Wilde that had dancers dancing on a box with a TV in it to show the video. Master of Music in Composition - Concentrations: acoustic, electro-acoustic, electronic music, MIDI, the recording arts and art video. My graduate assistantship, which paid for school, had me running the composing MIDI computer recording studio under Dr. Beerman. Studied composition with Dr. Marilyn Shrude (modern classical: final project "Shortcomings" in three mov. for solo sax with Don Conry), Dr. Burton Beerman (avant garde/MIDI/art video/Mandala video gesture control system: final project was an art video called "Debt"), Dr. Wallace DePue (art songs/musicals: final project was an art song called "A Song About Peace and Love") and Dr. Donald Wilson (thoughts and theory). Thesis: "Traffic Inside" for percussion sextet, advisors: Dr. Burton Beerman and Dr. Roger B. Schupp (Director of Percussion Studies), Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1996. Because it was a percussion composition, I convinced Roger Schupp, who was new to BG, to help. Also worked in Poe Ditch Recording Services with Mark Bunce, recording tons of concerts. I did a Mandala video gesture dance art video choreographed by Kerri Lamy-Wilde of UT at UT in 1991. It is called "Out Of The Wilderness." Christopher P. Stoll has more than 30 years of experience in the recording arts. He has been recording since his parents bought him a Radio Shack portable cassette recorder in the eighth grade. He went on to interview family members and pets, cooking food and the toilet flushing. He started his professional recording career as an undergraduate at the University of Toledo when he took an electronic music recording class. He was soon recording all concerts at UT and composing “art music” projects on the Arp2600, Korg MS20, original Vocoder and an 8-track analog reel-to-reel for class. He eventually got hired at Audiomatrix Recording Studio in downtown Toledo to do some basic radio commercials and editing. After graduating from UT with a B.A. in Music (percussion), he utilized the MIDI knowledge he picked up using a Mac Plus and MOTU Performer, and went on to get his Master of Music in Composition from Bowling Green State University. He spent most of his time in the Multimedia MIDI Recording Arts Computer Lab and Recording Studio. This was an exciting time when MIDI was brand new, so setting up the computers and electronic keyboards was crucial. Neither UT nor BGSU had extensive recording classes then, so Chris spent most of the 1990s practicing his audio engineering in the clubs with live sound, and doubling the business and physical size of Audiomatrix. Utilizing almost every cutting-edge recording medium through the years, he continues to stay up to date with all audio recording technologies: Pro Tools, Digital Performer, Reason, Waves, UAD. He prides himself on working WITH bands and obsessing over getting the best sound for every project. Take a look at his credits and hear samples of recordings on the audio / video page. He’s just as comfortable reading through a classical music score and making edits between takes as he is recording a punk band. He also has extensive experience doing complex full 200-track multi-track live recordings for CD,DVD Facebook streaming and YouTube. Between 2003 and 2019 (before the pandemic), I spent my time 50% recording and live sound, 40% teaching college, 5% drumming and 5% composing. I work on about 20 musical recording projects a year that should end up on a finished CD for release. Most often recording in a studio, sometimes live in a church, bar or random space. I would consider myself to be a “half-producer” on 90% of the projects. I tell musicians when they play something wrong and how to fix it, but I don’t always tell someone how to compose their songs. Unless they ask. in 30 Years - Over 250 finished CDs I tracked, mixed, mastered and co-produced, over 1000 other recordings in recording studios, (over 5000 songs), over 2000 commercials. (full list of all projects listed in blogs) 750 shows doing live sound for bands in 50 different bars like Frankies, Main Event, Headliners (2 years - around 2006) currently filling in as needed in small clubs and big churches, 750 shows doing live sound at colleges including musicals and all national touring groups, plus classical concert recordings at universities for archives. (combined 17 years /9 years head sound engineer at Owens CC in performing arts building) 900 live radio shows for broadcast like Tom Kraeutler and Leslie Segrete (TLC’s show While You Were Out + Trading Spaces) of The Money Pit home improvement radio show recording the normal weekly program live to air and doing special live broadcasts from convention centers and Home Depots around America, Los Angeles, Anaheim, Orlando, Boston, Atlanta, Las Vegas. Utilizing ISDN, Nexus, Hotline, T1 technology. Weekly shows had Tom in New Jersey, Leslie in Manhattan and me and Jim in Toledo (2005 - 2010) Most Recent Gear here at The Davis Building, I combined all of Dave's and iDance with my gear!!! and it starts with great mics: (2) Neumann TLM 102, (8) Oktava MK-012, AKG Tube, (4) 414, (2) 214, (4) 451, (2) D112, (2) Sennheiser MD 421, e604, 609 Silver, Electro-Voice ND44, N/D 30, (3) Shure SM7B, (2) Beta 52A, Beta 56, (10) Sm 57, (8) Sm 58, Audix D6, Beyerdynamic M 201 N (2) Cascade Fathead Ribbon Mics, Apex 460 Tube Mic, and all my Mogami cables. Hooked through 16 channels of some of the best tube mic preamps to set me apart: Avalon vt-737sp, Manley Core, Joe Meek Twin Q2, UA 2-610, Presonus Studio Tube and Focusrite Scarlett Octo. Into (3) MOTU 8M’s with MOTU AVB switch and MOTU Monitor 8 with PreSonus StudioLive 32R, so 80 track recording! A maxed out 2020 MacBook Pro 2.4GHz 8‑core Intel Core i9, 8TB SSD, 64GB 2666MHz DDR4 onboard memory, AMD Radeon Pro 5500M with 8GB of GDDR6 video memory. 5 monitors with Plugable Thunderbolt 3 Dock – 3 Samsung 32 inch 4k and 50 inch TV. MalletKAT Pro Grand 5 octaves with gigKAT 2 sound module, Alesis Surge 7pc El Drums with Samplepad Pro, Nektar Impact LX88 + 88-key Keyboard Controller, My Alesis QS8, Kurzweil 2500x with all samples loaded. Pro Tools, Logic Pro X, Reason, Digital Performer, Studio One, Autotune Pro, Melodyne 5 Full Studio, Waves Mercury Bundle with SSL 4000, API and all Chris Lord-Alge Signature Series, UAD tube compressors, Drumagog, iZotope RX, Garage Band, Final Cut Pro, I have access to all samples and keyboard sounds from IK SampleTank 4 Max, NI Komplete 13 Ultimate Collector’s Edition, EastWest Composer Cloud X, Spitfire Audio BBC Symphony. 300 pianos, 300 organs, 300 drum sets, 50 scoring strings . My original M-Audio BX, Daves' totally awesome Focal Alpha-80 with Sub, Genelec 8040A, Bose L1 Model 2 Tower speakers (in big room), JBL LSR 2300, Mackie HR824, and then triple check YouTube mixes on my fully amped surround system. All my mixes sound great on the biggest to the smallest speakers and iPhone with my own unique mastering techniques I have built up over 10 years!!! All my newest modern mixes fit in easily with all the best YouTube and streaming. 3 JVC-GY HM 170 4K cameras, 6 Zoom (3) Q2N-4K Handy Video Recorders and iPhone 12 pro max 500gb. – plus Behringer Air XR18 for small live system. (Also 10 years experience with Behringer X32, Midas M32R + DL32 AES50 stage box, Presonus Studio Live 32, SSL Duality, Yamaha TF5, Digidesign Control 24, MADI, Ultranet and Dante networking.) – plus Behringer Air XR18 for small live system. iDance with Karen Medina brings over 200 crazy different lights and light controllers to create a great live show. |
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A couple of personal highlights:
- Worked with Crystal Bowersox American Idol (Season 9 - 2010) for over 10 years. She recorded over 30 songs. Crystal Bowersox + Frankie May - Once Upon a Time (2012). (she moved to Nashville) - Worked with the other local American Idol contestant, Candice Coleman (Season 2 - 2003). She did three Christmas recordings with Chris Brown. (NOT the “famous” Chris Brown) - Created three Make-a-Wish Charity Christmas CDs with over 50 bands through Mike Miller at the Toledo FreePress (2011 - 2013). Most difficult and rewarding long term projects. Very hard making so many musical styles fit together. A year of planning and execution every time. - I work with Dave Winfree, the local talk box artist and songwriter, for 30 years, including a song One on One he composed and produced by Alex Nesmith aka Al E Cat and I recorded for the local band Lade Bac in 2000. It got picked up by Keith Sweat to put on Rebirth (2002). The song was #44 while the album became #7 R&B and #14 on the Billboard 200. Winfree gets hired to do very complex talk box vocal creations on many albums a year that I record through 2024. - iDance - 5 years - 2019 - 2024 - with Karen Medina teaching disabled people drums and recording people to create 10 final shows of 50 dancers with lights and sound at The Maumee Indoor Theater and at Mud Hens games. - 3 studio albums and 4 live recordings for internet by Boogie Matrix Mechanism including 2023! - 20 albums by Native American flute artist, Douglas Blue Feather. I’ve done tracking, mixing and mastering since 1996. Many Nammy Awards!…and others. - Recorded New Age artist Charles Thaxton aka Char-El over 25 years and having Hearts of Space National Radio Show pick his CD, Worlds Without End (1996), as an entire show. - Vissi d’arte REMIX! An EDM remix of Giacomo Puccini opera Tosca soprano aria “Vissi d’arte” starring Jodi Jobuck — soprano with pit orchestra, gospel choir, ballet dancers, modern dancers, tap dancers at Owens Center for Fine and Performing Arts building grand opening. Composing, arranging, producing, studio recording, live recording, live sound mixing with 15 wireless lavs, then final mixing and mastering. My most complex production. Commissioned by Dr. Brian D. Bethune (2003). I was inspired by Quincey & Sonance remix of U2’s “Beautiful Day” and Influx remix of “Elevation” on the U2 7 EP (2002). - I worked for over 2 years in preparation and then final production on the newly formed million-dollar company Spark the Mind with Alex Nesmith and Christine Sugg Smith doing Smart Shorties Hip Hop Multiplication CD and DVD. It used grade-school kids to create music and raps that would help teach them math facts in a fun way, Track/Mix/Master (2008). Then did the follow up Fractions CD (2009). On Amazon. Submitted for Grammy in education, didn’t win. - I worked on a very short deadline of 2 weeks to do all the audio sweetening of a local mockumentary Crap Shoot: The Documentary (2007). Sound design, SFX, sound editor, sound mixing and extreme audio clean up up with room ambience matching. It won an award called The Accolade and a Telly! (preview online at IMDb) - Independent film Ice Cold Fear directed by Shane Sahadi and Tim Stickle, sound design and original electronic music score with Gabriel A. Beam (2006). (preview online at IMDb) - Record Sacred Strings’ yearly national convention live performance DVDs and CDs (6 years). I do FOH and monitors live, record it and then take weeks of mixing to video. (Videos on YouTube) - One of the more complex live shows I worked was with the Toledo School for the Arts musicals and year-end Kaleidoscope at Owens Community College Theatre. Each show comprised of 50 five-minute mini-shows that included 48+ automated mixer board channels with 20+ wireless lavalieres switching performers, stages moving in and out, mics in the pit, on stage and in the audience. Synced to 120 light cues. It was recorded live to DVD. We had just three days of rehearsals (5 years). Co-directed with Rick Clever. - I am one of a few people to record live at The Ohio Theater: The Polka Floyd Show (2009). - Hillsdale College Gov. Ronald Reagan’s 1977 speech Master/clean up (2005). - SFX and small musical cues for the Jeff Daniels comedy Escanaba in Da Moonlight. Performed at Ms. Rose’s Dinner Theatre, Perrysburg, Ohio. Directed by Cassie Bridinger (2003-2006). - I recorded the legendary Claude Black live in the legendary Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle (2000). - I am the only person to record the local legends Bobby May and Pat Lewandowski as 2 Big Guitars together live at Micky Finn’s. They “famously” played every Tuesday night for over 20 years (1999). - The Mighty Meaty Swing Kings doing the original Toledo Mud Hens Jingle that everyone loved (1998). - Christmas Toledo - Homeless Awareness Project with Tony Parker (1997 and 1998). Jamie Farr (from M.A.S.H!) - “A Visit From St. Nicholas” I also did acoustic percussion as SFXs! - I’m one of the few who recorded at Rusty’s Jazz Café: one of the longest running jazz clubs in America…now closed! Ramona Collins and Line One - Everything Old is New Again - Live @ Rusty’s (1996). - I am one of a few people to record at the iconic juke joint: Griffin Hines Farm Blues Club Juke Joint on old State Route 295 in Swanton, Ohio with Five Horse Johnson - Blues For Henry (1996). |
Play drum set live or in the studio, 20 bands - 2000 paid gigs.
Some of the rock groups include:
Completed projects where I play standard rock drum set:
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