The Return of the Yo-Yo of Trust

Yo-Yo of Trust 2
...feel the trust.

Here we have intern Jeff Baker experiencing the business-end of the yo-yo of trust. Thrusting out the trustworthiness would be house engineer, Scott Velazco.

It's my hope that uploading videos such as this might actually diminish the number of telemarketers calling to offer insurance plans. Would you want to insure this kind of activity? I didn't think so. Please stop calling.

Red, White and Blue

Rob Gervia in the Booth

On the whole, summertime is usually a little slower with regards to booking sessions here at the studio. Typically we'll use this period to reach out to independent artists and bands that have a need for a killer-sounding recordings, but may not have previous experience in a professional recording studio.

Vibe 56 was honored to host a session for Sargent Rob Gervia, which took place (appropriately) just before the 4th of July holiday.

Rob is currently serving his country as a member of the United States Army.

During his short leave between deployments, Rob traveled to Nashville to record vocals on some tracks that we had prepared in advance of his arrival. We worked with Mary Jo Burden, Rob's manager, to record the instrumental bed tracks that he later came in and recorded vocals to.

As the summer progresses, our business will get back into the swing of things. Rob Gervia is already back to serving his country as I write this. Helping Rob achieve his dream of recording in a Nashville recording studio has helped put a lot of our daily worries into perspective.

Thanks to Rob Gervia (and Mary Jo Burden) for giving us the opportunity to serve someone who is serving for our entire country.

The song was debuted during the Fourth of July celebration at Fort Lee, Va. At the event over 200 copies of the song were given away to the military, family and friends who were there in attendance. His brief stay while at Fort Lee is helping to shape his future in ways he never could have imagined.

For more information about Rob, visit his Myspace page at:
myspace.com/robgervia

A Matter of Trust, Yo!

Yo-yo of Trust

Vibe 56 is proud to have earned the trust of many talented music professionals here in Nashville. Staying consistent with what we deliver can only be accomplished with the help of some key folks that are dedicated to serving up only the highest quality of themselves.

As Ben Folds sang, "If you can't trust, you can't be trusted." It's important to have trust between the folks you work with.

Here's a short video clip of an exercise we refer to as "The Yo-yo of Trust". Scott Velazco, Vibe 56's head engineer, introduces producer/engineer David Wilson to the business-end of the yo-yo of trust.

We ARE Going to Talk About Fight Club...and Pro Tools

Fader-aide

Technology is fun...and scary. Major updates to our fundamental system are always a little stressful, but I understand a little stress is actually healthy. We're all very healthy after successfully upgrading to Pro Tools 7.4cs5 earlier this week.

As a former studio technician myself, there is a real feeling of confidence when knowing that all technical aspects of the studio are at 100%.

The most troubling technical issue we've faced recently was having to intermittently "fight" with the faders on our ICON D-Command console. The software upgrade and the included firmware upgrades have directly addressed our fader fighting issues.

Special thanks to Gil Gowing and Mike Ziemba from Digidesign for their help in putting our fader fighting days behind us.

(...and thanks to breezy421 for the photo of our console!)

Gantt-O-Rama II

Jason Gantt returned to Vibe 56 with Chris Ayer for a full week of tracking earlier this month. Jason is handy with a fader and a knob, and not too shabby with a camera either.

Last time Jason was tracking here, he put together a cool photo collage that included the front inside of the studio. You can view it here. This time around, Jason put together a couple of photo collages inside our control room.

The Montgomery Gentry Entry

Revival Chorus
...from Montgomery Gentry's newest release.

Last February Blake Chancey was in the studio recording the last bits and pieces for Montgomery Gentry's Back When I Knew It All. Interestingly enough, the stuff that was recorded here ended up becoming the intro to the entire album, which was released today. Gordon Mote played our Hammond organ and did the vocal of the preacher.

Every preacher needs a congregation right? Blake Chancey invited our neighbors from SESAC to come on over and congregate to tape. I even ended up being part of the congregation myself.

My free copy of the album still hasn't shown up at the studio, but I did find this video interview on YouTube featuring the The Big Revival:

[UPDATE]
I just became aware of this video footage that was shot during the recording of the congregation voices. This either makes more or less sense in the context of this post: