We’re a high end recording and production studio working in many genres with engineers, producers and writers with credits from, From Autumn to Ashes, Lil Peep and Mikahl Lawless. We work with both analog gear and in the digital realm of audio to create high end products ready for release at the highest standards of the music and audio industry.
Hi. We’re Bombshelter Studios, made up of Scott Gross and Christopher Wood. We’re a two person team offering services of tracking, mixing, production and songwriting. We have over 25 years of experience in professional music with releases from Scott Gross appearing on multiple Billboard Charts. We’re offering remote mixing and mastering services across a wide arrange of genre specialties like hardcore, post hardcore, metal, hip hop and trap music. Hire us for knowledge and experience as well as a solid inside working knowledge of audio principles, mixing practices and studio gear technology.
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Interview with Bombshelter Studios
Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?
A: From Autumn to Ashes. Whole other interview for a whole other time.
Q: What are you working on at the moment?
A: Working on a singer-songwriter track, production work for a hip hop artist, mixing a punk rock band, and finishing a record to get one of our clients back out on tour.
Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: Both. Taking advantage of both analog and digital with a good interfacing and workflow is the way to go.
Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?
A: We promise we wont stop a mix or master until you're happy with it.
Q: What do you like most about your job?
A: Seeing the amazing creativity and musical processes of so many different people.
Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?
A: How soon can we start? Were ready right now.
Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?
A: That anything can be fixed in the mix...
Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?
A: What's your end goal? Any references? How far are you willing to go to get this done correctly?
Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A: We take this very seriously and will treat your music with the utmost respect it deserves. We know its your creation and "baby" and it deserves to be treated right so it can flourish.
Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?
A: Id take a shure sm7, a vintage u87, a neve 1073, a pro tools rig...and a guitar.
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: Been either running or working in studios or touring professionally since 1999. We joined forces at The Bombshelter about 5 years ago and continue to thrive in this partnership and environment.
Q: How would you describe your style?
A: Style is extremely creative and open to suggestions from others. Learn lot by listening to people.
Q: Can you share one music production tip?
A: Never wait to fix something in the mix. Source is key.
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: We usually work on Hip Hop, Metal and rock or Singer-songwriter genres.
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: Strongest skills are knowing how to read what a client wants or needs depending on type of music and vibe and being able to translate that quickly and correctly into mixing.
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: We bring many, many years of direct experience in music from national and international touring and major label and publishing deals. Ive owned multiple studios as well as worked in studios next to Grammy winning and platinum and diamond certified engineers and producers.
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: For people needing production, beat making for hip hop or songwriting, we start there. We'll then track vocals with band or artist. We then switch to mixing and send mix updates to artist to listen to and come back to us with any notes or tweaks. We take care of that and when the mix is agree upon we move to mastering.
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: We run three Universal Audio Apollos with a new Dangerous Dbox. We have a Slate Raven dual monitor system running Pro Tools. We have 2 500 series racks with a Neve 1073, 2 API 550b eq's, an API 527 compressor, two Empirical Labs el8x Distressors and 2 Focusrite red preamps. We use the new Dangerous DBOX for analog summing. We have an Elysia, a stereo JDK r22 rack compressor and an Elysia Expressor compressor. We run the newest version of Pro Tools on a Mac Studio with plugins from UAD, Waves, Steven Slate, Antares Auto Tune Suite and Ozone Mastering Software. We use a SA-800 tube mic clone of a Sony 800. We have Adams a7x monitors and Auratone 5C's with a KRK sub. We also have the Steven Slate Audio VSX headphone system and software.
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: Jim Annunziato, GGGarth Richardson, Smokeasac, Cian P
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: We do tracking, mixing, mastering, songwriting and beat making regularly.
I was the Songwriter, guitarist, mixing engineer, mastering engineer in this production
- Mixing EngineerAverage price - $200 per song
- Mastering EngineerAverage price - $70 per song
- Electric GuitarAverage price - $100 per song
- From Autumn To Ashes
- Lil Peep
- Neve 1073
- API 550b
- API 527
- SA-800
- el8x distressors
