The Honey Dew Drops – If the Sun Will Shine

If the Sun Will Shine, The Honey Dew Drops’ debut record, was just released May 2009. Recorded live and mixed in a 1920’s barn, the record means to pay homage to their live performances – full of the same energy and emotion the Honey Dewdrops bring to the stage. Local sound engineer, Abel Okugawa, mastered [...]

The Honey Dew Drops : Monkey Session

Check out this collage of photos from our relaxing and enjoyable July Monkey Session with The Honey Dew Drops.

These two wonderful musicians majestically settled into Monkeyclaus quite comfortable. Setting up their zone in the Live Room , they began the music making process with a few home made dehydrated sour cherries picked from Peter’s [...]

The Art of Being Heavy: Horsefang

Horsefang is epic instrumental Metal from Charlottesville, VA. “The ‘Fang” recorded their first EP at Monkeyclaus last year. It is a gnarly Metal ripper from start to finish. This past weekend they began to lay down the tracks for their follow up release. The raw tracks from this first session are [...]

6 Day Bender = 8 Day Bender

Check out some behind the scenes photographs of the studio process with 6 Day Bender. These guys rocked Monkeyclaus like real rock stars… These boys are the ones with the cash on the corner. The new CD recorded at Monkeyclaus studio is about to be finished. You can check it out here. Be sure [...]

Trees On Fire Recording More Awesome Music

Yes, the infamous Trees On Fire are back at it again. It’s been a pleasure to work with them and capture their souls to Pro Tools at 88.2khz/24bit. I strongly suggest you get interested. Check out these pictures from the studio sessions.

And to top it all off, Blake’s uncle and his daughter opened up a [...]

Trees On Fire: The Green Room Sessions

You have heard the CD, know at least one member in the band — or someone you know does — you like their music, have seen them play live, and maybe even heard they were recording… somewhere? Now you know even more: take a look at some photos from the making of The Green [...]

Finger Painters: Local Music Makers

Check out some local talent. The Finger Painters rock and let the natural bleed do the trick. That is to say, the bleed between amps, mics, drums, Rhodes, speakers, and energy. It all flows directly through our colorful Van den Hul signal path being organized into 88.2khz/24bit audio packets. Magic was in [...]

Horsefang: Raw and Dirty

Serious effort goes into making Horsefang’s heavy-as-lead music. I believe they tune down to the key of Hell itself. These sessions are all about capturing the tones and sweat from the players and leaving it as raw as possible, so you can feel and taste the riffs. How many riffs? No one really [...]

Cliff Usher of Birdlips

Recording Birdlips is amazing — vintage mics (Lomo,Sony,Electrovoice) and technique down to the circa 1950 Western Electric wires. Reverbs of springs, plates and space echo tape delay. Multi instrumentalist and mastermind Cliff Usher is making a killer album. You will definitely want to get a copy of this record when it’s released; we [...]

Birdlips: mixing and a little more tracking

Birdlips has been putting the final touches to their mix . And of course quickly recording any last creative inspirations that need to be on this Album. Check out some pictures from the scene in the studio:www.birdlipsmusic.com