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Recording Projects by Chris P. Stoll: Starting in 2003, after I got hired at Owens CommunityCollege, I split my time 50% recording – live sound, 40% teaching college and 5% drumming and 5% composition. I worked as an instructor of sound and music with Protools, and was the head engineer for all live shows in the theater for over 10 years. 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:
Also around ’87 to ’95, because Audiomatrix was the only studio in town to have a nice E-mu Emulator II sampler keyboard at the time (records 17.6 seconds of 8-bit sound on 5” floppies!), I recorded hundreds of rap sessions a year on analog 8-track that went straight to cassettes. People brought in crates of albums and I sampled 2-6 beats per song. Eventually most people bought their own keyboards to make original beats. After CD-Rs got cheaper, everyone started making CDs. The following list represents about one half of what I’ve worked on. The rest being projects that never got finished, band breaks up/runs out of money, or projects that I lost track of in the early days. This does not include lots of rap and singer songwriter demos that never get into final release form. I’ve listed some that I remember. This also does not include hundreds of professional, university or high school ensembles that I record at schools but don’t release a CD. I’ve listed some bigger ones. I am always in the middle of many different projects every week that will be done later in the year that aren’t listed. I was the only engineer A1 on all projects except where listed. Because of budget and time constraints, I am usually the recording, mixing, mastering engineer and co-produce. ARTIST / BAND / CLIENT – TITLE DESCRIPTION MY ROLE STUDIO DATE
ARTIST / BAND / CLIENT – TITLE DESCRIPTION MY ROLE STUDIO DATE
Live Sound Places:(1986 – present) I have done live sound support in clubs, outdoor spaces and churches with various equipment. Toledo locations include: UT Doermann Theater, UT Student Union, UT Centennial Mall, UT Planetarium, BGSU Bryan Recital Hall + Kobacker Hall, BGSU Planetarium, Rocky’s Attic (UT Student Union), Frankies, Main Event, Headliners fill in for fun 05 06, BPM128, Bottle Rocket (Toledo), The Pub on UT campus, Cyprus Lounge, Whit’s End, City Lounge, Metro, Club Bijou, The Underground, Moosey’s, JJ’s Aqua Lounge, Mickey Finn’s Pub, (4 Kip’s clubs that have changed names 10 times – Club Soda now), Distillery, Ottawa Tavern (both versions!) The Stein, Club 21, Upstairs-Downstairs, EasyStreet (Toledo), Ohio State Theater (Toledo), Stranahan Great Hall, Gladieux Meadows, The Premier Banquet Complex on Heatherdowns), Collingwood Arts Center, Seagate Center, Sufficient Grounds, Java Mill and Maxwell’s Brew, Roxannes (both stages), Zodiak, Club 151 on the Water, Owens Community College Fine and Performing Arts Building many locations including the Main Theater, Lobby and instrumental rehearsal hall room 111, Ms. Rose’s Dinner Theater (Perrysburg, Ohio), Happy Badger (Toledo), Bronze Boar, Ye Olde Durty Bird, Wesley’s, Woodchucks Bar and Grill, Martini N Nuzzis, The Village Idiot, Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle lobby and in one of the world’s longest surviving jazz clubs: Rusty’s Jazz Café. (now closed) Bowling Green, Ohio, locations would include EasyStreet Café (upstairs) and Howards Club H. Churches include: Faith Community United Holy Church, Church on Strayer, 7th day Adventist First, First Unity, New Life Church of God and Christ, Believers Christian, Bible Believers, (the great) Trinity Episcopal downtown Toledo, Sylvania Alliance and the Nazarene District Center in St. Marys, Ohio. |
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