Fantok Studios
Fantok Studios is a project recording facility in central Connecticut. While I’ve worked with artists from a wide range of genres, from metal to folk music, at the moment I’m mainly interested in building up my CV by doing a a few pro-bono projects for experienced musicians who are familiar with the modern recording process. If that seems like something you’d be interested in, you can check out the Studio Recordings and Mobile Recordings sections for links and read on for more specifics about what I’m looking for. If not, feel free to come back in the coming months when I reopen my studio to the general public.
What I'm Looking for Right Now
So I’ve been trying to branch out into dedicated production work for a while now, and I’ve hit a couple of roadblocks that have forced me to reconsider my methods. Long story short, I’ve been involved with a number of projects where I really couldn’t do my best work. Now I’m sure that there are producers out there who could take a recording of a guitar done on a 90s era Tascam with the metronome printed onto the track and turn it into something decent, and there are certainly producers who know how to edit the shit out sloppy, feedback-ridden dry tracks, but I’m not there yet. What believe I can do is take competent performances and mix them in a way that is competitive with other small studios (and please feel free to listen to my Harmozel recordings to see if you agree). Thus, I’ve decided to switch over to doing some free work to build up my resume before opening back up to regular clients.
Ideally, I’d like to do the production remotely, with you sending me either dry tracks and some kind of sketch of the drum parts (anything from a full MIDI map to drum notation to a video of someone playing it). However, if you happen to live in the CT area I’d certainly be willing to do in-person recording. While I’m open to a wide variety of genres, my specialty at the moment is metal, so if that’s what your trying to do then that’s a huge plus. I’m also very willing to play any of the parts you don’t have the instrument/members for, provided I get credited for the recording and the parts are not too technically demanding, so if you’re a guitarist with an albums worth of material that you need vocals, bass, or drums for, then assuming you know how to record a DI to a metronome or give me a decent, tight recording from your own amp, then I’d love to hear from you.
What I don’t want are projects where I’m gonna spend dozens of hours getting bogged down in things like editing out bursts of feedback or time-aligning recordings because the playing was too sloppy to be double tracked. Basically, I want to work with someone who is familiar enough with both their instruments and the recording process that I can give them the best work I possibly can, and to achieve that aim I’m willing to do it for free.
