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Donovan and Dennis Ferrante

It all started when I got a call from producer Dennis Ferrante (John Lennon, Lou Reed, Kiss, Willie Nelson) asking me if I could do a live recording for Donovan. I was very excited and it took me back about 20 years. In my childhood, when vinyl was still very popular I had this amazing… Read more »

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Isaiah Singer and The Stars Below

Isaiah Singer and The Stars Below… The Stars Below is my new favorite one… Isaiah Singer is a member of a band called The Seventh Word.  I heard Isaiah sing for the first time when I was approached by him and my good friend Nelson Salis, the drummer of 7W, to mix their debut album, Gold & Gravity…. Read more »

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Recording Minnie Driver Singing Live

I think you’ll be surprised hearing Minnie Driver singing… I got a call from Minnie Driver’s crew to do a live recording for her new album release, “Ask Me To Dance,” at The Cutting Room in New York City. Like any other usual on-location recording, I fired up my on-location system and prepared it by… Read more »

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The Dolce Vita Strings Session

Her name is Nadia Khodakovska. Repeat that name three times and try not to forget it. The first time I met her was in my previous recording studio a few years back in a church on the Upper East Side. I wanted to explore recording classical music, and found a string quartet to record a… Read more »

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Building A Recording Studios

Honey, I’m building a Recording studio… The journey started back in 1999 when NR Recording Studios was housed in a church on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. After about 12 years I decided it was time to move to a better location. It wasn’t until 2014 that I found my current location in The… Read more »