MAKE RECORDS.

Sounds - Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered.

Services - What I do.

Quiethouse Recording - My Studio.

I am a member of AES and NARAS

I have spoken on panels at AES, Music Expo, and I Create Music!

Contact me:

dereck@quiethouserecording.com

@quiethouserecording on instagram

This was the best rock album of the 90s. It’s taken me a long time to form that opinion. This is one of the first records I had to sneak out of my time at the Kankakee YMCA to go across the street to buy it at Ross Chicago Records. I was 13 years old and other than Smashing Pumpkins and the Cure this was all I listened to that fall (1993). This morning I was sharing with my eight-year-old the lineage from Wild Thing by the Troggs to Smells Like Teen Spirit to where Nirvana went after Nevermind. I dropped her off at day camp and drove around for an hour listening to this in my car. I had another epiphany. In the time I’ve spent with Steve Albini there were all these prejudices I had about certain approaches to recording certain sources. Especially regarding mixing those elements. Things like “high pass guitars to make sure they fit into the sonic palette of the song” or “notch out that ring in the snare”. He would always challenge me and ask why. Not to teach me anything at all but to make me think about why I would even begin to “pre-mix” sources like that. “That just not something I would do” he would say. It became sort of a joke. Anyway - I’m listening to this today and having another one of those moments where I can see inside a mix. I hear something and I know what the process was. Kick drum - I FEEL the Beyer m380 thump attack and HEAR THE RELEASE in the room mics. Guitars - I feel the low mids in the palm mutes. I feel like I’m in a space that fully surrounds me but matches the mood of the music. It’s like a hospital - clinical. It’s so easy to get in a method where you just do things and don’t really listen. I realized again today that I am constantly reminding myself to listen. Even after making records for over 15 years, trying to learn and understand methods used by A list engineers to capture sound. Listen. LISTEN. I am ready to make a record today! #fridayfeeling #studiolife #nirvana #makingrecords #recordingstudio #mixingengineer #electricalaudio #stevealbini

Repost from @simiancyborg - these are my boston homies, a band called "husbands." ten years ago i lived in boston and i smelled something throughout the four years i lived there. even tho husbands wasn't around back then, i now realize that smell was them coming onto the scene a decade in advance, cuz they are STRONG! 💪 do yourself a solid and check them out at husbandsbos.bandcamp.com! for some reason, they remind me of the bands daughters and dads, without sounding like either. they are like a marriage proposal in a moshpit. plus, they have impeccable music taste (see turnstile t for evidence), with love for cloakroom, code orange, kraftwerk, pity sex, carissa's wierd, citizen, pedro the lion, just basically every good band ever. can't go wrong with those influences. hopefully doing a split release with them in fall(ish). #shoegrunge #slowgaze #shoegaze #shoegazer #slowcore #realmusic #trumusic #inspiration #grungeshoes #musicformusicians #newmusic #freshmusic #popmusic #rockmusic #singing #distortedguitars #pedals #teachmehowtodance #pedalsfordayz #impeccabletaste

Decisions were made. #studiolife

Repost from @brutgroup- Concrete Sound (detail of #brutgroup installation)
Audra Wolowiec – REVERSE. CHECK OUT HER WEBSITE. She made a whole series of concrete sculpture inspired by recording studio foam. (Also see my stories)

This is straight up how we recorded a drum sets with very little to no money and access to a very small prayer chapel at a local university in 2001. We did not have enough microphone stands so we used this broken music stand with a towel under one of the microphones. A microphone on the floor as well to capture the bass drum and this really crappy piece of foam to isolate it which absolutely did nothing. All of this was submixed to a Fostex 4 track mixer to a Delta 2 channel PCI recording interface into Cool Edit Pro 2.0. Never forget where you come from and how far you’ve been. #studiolife

Some of my favorite toys for color. I’ve been listening to a ton of new music that sounds explicitly colored and thinking about new ways to approach this in the studio. #studiolife

One more day here then back in the studio. I’m invigorated and feeling that twitchy desire that drives and motivates me. It’s the same feeling when you get excited to go to a show and when you’re there in the moment you feel like you’re bursting with ideas for your own music and you can’t wait to get back to work.

Do yourself a favor and look at Insta photos of Atlanta GA tonight. Amazing light at sundown after the storm. Golden hour x 1000 #atlanta #hartsfieldjackson #goldenhour #sunsetlighting

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