Studio Repair

 

House Call Studio Repair. Fast.

-Wiring

-Software

-Outboard

-D.A.W.

-Complete Installs

Our recording studio technicians are primarily concerned with maintenance and repair of electronic equipment, including cables, microphones, and amps. Depending on the individual’s range of expertise, we also care for instruments in the studio’s inventory and performing repairs like bridge replacements on guitars or changing out drum heads. Our studio technician works closely with in-house recording engineers and staff to regularly inspect gear for damage and wear, and will respond to immediate needs for troubleshooting and replacement of equipment during recording sessions. We ensure that our tool shop is properly stocked with replacement parts and necessary expendables—you can never have too many guitar strings, heat shrink tubes, or microphone RCA transformers. For major repairs or items under warranty, it is the technician’s job to contact the manufacturer to schedule a field technician or arrange to ship the equipment.

If you’re looking for individual with considerable expertise on audio equipment, and a thorough understanding of electricity and circuitry fixing what’s wrong with your studio, you’ve come to the right place. Safety is a major concern when working with electricity, even when a device is unplugged; capacitors store energy that can cause serious injury and equipment damage if not properly handled. If you’re not experienced in electronics repair, leave it to us to handle the studio repairs. Otherwise you will likely be soldering something a few times a week, so start practicing now. Likewise, replacing connectors and making cables are the most common repairs. Our experience as musicians is helpful, as the ability to repair stringed and percussion instruments is invaluable for any recording studio repair.

Our Rates Are From $60.00-$75.00/hour, call us today!

Recording Studio Repair On-Call
In Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth VA Hampton Roads
www.brickhouserecordsva.com
(757)971-2381 For a Booking. Located At 7821 Nth Military Hwy Norfolk VA.
Or email us at brickhouserecordsva@yahoo.com

Recording Studio Builders

– Professional and Home Studios

Our professional recording studio has a room where the musicians perform, sometimes itself called a studio; a control room containing the equipment for recording, editing and mixing music; and possibly a machine room and smaller rooms, or isolation booths, where high-volume instruments like drums are played to separate their sounds from those the microphones in the main room are picking up. If you are looking to get your own studio built, you should consult recording studio builders. We can help you with all of these complex factors, as building a recording studio takes a lot of time and effort.

Recording Studio Builders

First, you’ll want to consider how you’ll subdivide and soundproof your space. At the very least, you want to provide the performers in your studio with a soundproofed space separate from the control room. And you’ll want to check local zoning ordinances to make sure you comply with any anti-noise provisions that may be in place. Drywall and insulation should be hung and thick windows will help to further isolate the sound in the respective rooms. Additionally, sound absorbing baffles can be custom built for the control room to manage the bass response inside, for optimum listening conditions.

Next, a serious consideration as to the wiring of the studio should be given. Studios contain thousands of feet of wiring; power, XLR, 1/4″ and 1/8″, ethernet, S/PDIF and other cables can quickly become a huge mess if the recording studio builders don’t make sure cables are both long enough to comfortably reach their destination (but not longer) and organized to run as neatly and logically as possible.

Please contact for a personal visit to our Virginia Beach studio and get a comprehensive estimate for your dream studio you would like to build. Let our studio inspire you!

Brickhouse Records proudly owns a construction company, Creative Living with experienced recording studio builders that can get the job done!

 

Recording Studio
In Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth VA – Hampton Roads
www.brickhouserecordsva.com
(757)971-2381 For a Booking. Located At 7821 Nth Military Hwy Norfolk VA.
Or email us at brickhouserecordsva@yahoo.com

Music Legal Services

Music Legal Services

Music Legal Advice

Let’s get one thing out of the way up front – if you ask a lawyer, they will tell you that you need a lawyer’s music legal advice for every music deal you make. Technically, they are right. They can make sure all of the deals you make are air tight, and if you have your own music lawyer looking out for you, they can help make sure that you get a fair shake in all of your music related agreements.

Now, let’s get real. A ton of music deals happen without any music legal advice at all, especially in indie music – largely because no one has the money to pay a lawyer. That doesn’t mean that you are doomed to getting taken advantage of every time you put your name on the dotted line. As a general rule of thumb, if the person you are entering into an agreement with has legal advice, or if the contract they are asking you to sign was clearly drawn up by an attorney whether or not they have a lawyer on retainer, then you should definitely get music legal advice (INDEPENDENT legal advice – don’t just go to their attorney). On the other hand, if neither party involved in the deal has a lawyer, and if the deal is relatively simple, just write down the terms of the agreement and have both parties sign. You should do this with the knowledge that our music legal advice will help with your deal and will be as solid as it would be if you had a music lawyer involved in writing it up, but for most simple deals, the potential risks are far, far outweighed by the cost of hiring an attorney.

If you think you do need music legal advice, or if you feel like you just need to run some ideas past someone, check out any free or low cost alternatives available to you. Our Virginia Beach Studio and other musicians advocacy groups will be able to help you find this kind of information.

Recording Studio
In Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, VA – Hampton Roads
www.brickhouserecordsva.com
(757)971-2381 For a Booking. .Located At 7821 Nth Military Hwy Norfolk VA
Or email us at brickhouserecordsva@yahoo.com

Music Publishing

 

 

Music Publishing

Recent Music Publishing Trends in the Music Industry

Within the last decade the way music industry functions has significantly changed. Be it for the reason of growing accessibility of online resources or for the redefinition of priorities, but today the former strict attachment of a musician to a third party is no longer that evident. The number of alternatives to getting your music published keeps enhancing and the choice is being diversified. Let’s take a glance at the new aspect the music world has taken on.

 

Imagine a Situation

Suppose you are a purposeful and committed composer. Or arranger. Or both of the above mentioned together. You have some good pieces of music in your repertoire but you have no idea how to let them be known by the public at little or no cost. You need to find out how the ins and outs of music publishing. The task is clear, so let’s look at the options.

Traditional Methods of Music Publishing

Those who may still consider traditional music publishing a rather safer and more secure way of promotion can stick to the standard scenario of cooperating with one of the renowned providers of these services. These can be Performing Rights Societies – like ASCAP, BMI, GEMA, Kobalt (to name just a few) – that would take charge solely of your performing rights and gather money from certain types of public performance or reproducing of your music (e.g. concert halls, TV, cable, etc.). Or, you could contact Music Publishers (Alfred, Hal Leonard, Boosey) that would handle the material side of your work: printing and distributing of your sheet music. Of course, most of these companies will make sure your rights are secured, your music is distributed and your persona is promoted, with the least effort needed on your side. There might be differences in music publishing contracts but the idea is like that. However, such organized activity requires fundamental funding, so don’t be surprised when eventually you get just 15% commission off the sales at best. Sometimes, the revenue might not reach you at all. Moreover, they usually prefer to deal with people who have already ‘earned a name.Please Call Our business for more info!

Recording Studio
In Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth Va Hampton Roads
www.brickhouserecordsva.com
(757)971-2381 For a Booking. Located At 7821 Nth Military Hwy Norfolk Va.
Or email us at brickhouserecordsva@yahoo.com

Artist Development

 

Step 1: Desire

Are you ready to be a successful artist? You may be if…

• You have a dream or desire to be a successful singer-songwriter.
• You’re singing covers songs or Karaoke now.
• You’re not sure if you have the talent it takes to make it.
• You have limited or no experience singing with a band.
• You don’t know what to do next.

Here’s how we can help you move to the next step:

• Free Evaluation: We provide free evaluation of your vocal and/or songwriting talent.
• Co-writing: You’ll need to have your own songs that set you apart from everyone else. Our professional co-writers can help you realize this dream.
• Vocal coaching: pitch, dynamics, breathing & techniques to strengthen your vocal performance.
• Recording: great producers, great musicians & studios to get the best recordings possible.
• Song selection: we can help you find great original songs and/or team you up with professional co writers.
• Performance Coaching: From stage entrance to exit learn to make your performance memorable.

Step 2: Artist Development

Are you here? You may be if…

• You write your own original songs now.
• Your songs are not competitive in today’s market.
• You perform now and then.
• You are feeling stuck and need to get to the next level.

Here’s what we can help you move to the next step:

• Free Evaluation: We provide free evaluation of your vocal and/or songwriting talent.
• Song Search: We can schedule publisher’s pitch meetings and/or co-writing sessions to get you the best selection of original material for your project.
• Professional Vocal Coaching: We have some of the best vocal coaches and live performance/media coaches to prepare you for the studio, the stage and promotional radio tours.
• Producers: Any of our producers will deliver an amazing recording for you. We have producers at every level. From outstanding up and coming guys to multi-platinum, Grammy winning level, they’re all here .
• Marketing: Once you have a professional artist development package to present, we will begin marketing and promoting your project to management companies, record labels & booking agencies.

Step 3: Promotion

Are you here? You may be if…

• If you have a professionally produced product (CD).
• If you either have a band or you’re a self contained solo artist.
• If you have professional photos, bio, press kit.
• If you’re performing live at least once a week.

Here’s what we can do for your artist development

• Shop your artist packet/to the record labels.
• Promote and help with online marketing.
• Pitch your project to management companies.
• Introduce your project to booking agencies.

Submit Your Demo!

After listening to your artist development demo we can help you determine where you are and what it will take to quickly move you to the next step. So go ahead…

Recording Studio
In Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth Va Hampton Roads
www.brickhouserecordsva.com
(757)971-2381 For a Booking. Located At 7821 Nth Military Hwy Norfolk Va.
Or email us at brickhouserecordsva@yahoo.com

Video Editing

 

Video Editing And Mastering

 

 

1: Concept Design

This is the first and most critical step in your video project. With all of the ideas flying around, our video professionals will help you sort through the possibilities. From here we establish a basic outline, which will give our customers their first glimpse into the future of their project. Think of the design phase as the skeleton of your idea, to which we’ll add some muscle in the next step of your video editing.

2: Scripting

During this stage, we’ll establish an in-depth blueprint of your project. With the basic concept design in place, our writers and editors will hammer out a written script, complete with dialogue, sound planning, and on-screen titles. In film projects, this is also the phase in which storyboards are created. At this point, customers will get a very strong sense of the look and feel of their final product. Once the script is approved, our team will move into the next phase.

3: Video Production

This is where the fun begins for the camera crew and on-screen personalities. The lights go up, the camera rolls, and our trained staff captures your vision in our lenses. This process is obviously very important, cause this is the meat of the project, the content itself. Fancy effects on out of focus, poorly performed video footage is useless. For the performers/people on screen this is the draw, but it also has to be taken seriously to ensure a great final project.

4: Video Editing and Compositing

Looking for something out of the ordinary for your video? Our video editing services can provide you with a variety of different backgrounds and effects. With the help of green screens and video editing technology, your video can take place anywhere from the surface of the moon to the jungles of the Amazon. Or if you’re simply looking for a more interesting background effect, we can provide those as well with our Final Cut editing suite and it’s industry standard capabilities.

5: Sound Design and Production

If there’s one thing that sets a professional video from an amateur attempt, it’s the sound. The audio atmosphere tells a viewer all they need to know about a company – is it bold, clear, and clean, or is it bland, muddy, and off-kilter? Our Virginia Beach recording studio is here to help you in getting for your film , and our team has all the tools needed to give your video a strong audio presence. This is a big sell for film distributors and they are very keen on finding  projects that just need their network and financial push, as opposed to rough drafts that have to be worked on extensively before they can make money.

 

Video Editing and Recording Studio
In Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth VA – Hampton Roads
www.brickhouserecordsva.com
(757)971-2381 For a Booking. Located At 7821 Nth Military Hwy Norfolk VA
Or email us at brickhouserecordsva@yahoo.com

Sound Design

AUDIO POST/SOUND DESIGN FOR FILM PROFILE

Use us on your Sound Design Virginia Beach for your feature or Indie film releases. We cover both production sound mixing and post production sound design and editing. We have worked with award winning directors and we would love to help you take your project to the top. We take meticulous care with your sound design, whether it’s setting the most realistic environment possible, or building a fantasy world from scratch.

GAME SOUND PROFILE

Game soundtracks are no longer about the beeps and bloops of our childhood past. Playing video games isn’t just about what you see on the screen, it’s about what you hear around you…and in the surrounds. When you think about ground breaking games like Bioshock, Battlefield 3, and L.A. Noire, what you heard was just as important as what you saw for creating the immersive environment those games created, as anyone who looked over their shoulders after hearing a splicer running up behind them can attest to!

MUSIC COMPOSERS

Ever wonder who is responsible for making you tear up uncontrollably during your favorite movie scene? It’s likely the brilliant mind of the composer who created that memorable score. Explore the process into today’s leading composers and see what they hear inside their head. We will create a custom score for your film and generate the emotional response in your audience that can take a good film and make it great.

Get your sound design for your film done with us at our studio today!

Call us For your next movie, video game, short film, TV or cartoon program!

Audio Post/Sound Design Studio
In Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth VA – Hampton Roads
www.brickhouserecordsva.com
(757)971-2381 For a Booking. Located At 7821 Nth Military Hwy Norfolk VA
Or email us at brickhouserecordsva@yahoo.com

Pre-Production

In the music industry, Pre-Production is a process whereby a Virginia Beach recording studio artist spends time creating and refining their musical ideas. The artist thus produces a song’s demo recording, or rough draft, in order to pre-establish the song’s creative premise. A demo should have the basic style of the song displayed. For example, by listening to the demo, a casual listener should be able to tell if the song is country or pop. Also, the ‘tone’ of the song should be at least somewhat developed, i.e. whether the song is an upbeat club song, or a heartbreak ballad. If this isn’t clear, it can be ironed out in pre-production, but as an artist, you should have a basic concept of what vibe you are trying to create in your music. This planning, when taken seriously, reduces the time and money spent in expensive studios.

 

The goal is to enter into the major recording phase of production with the basic and most promising ideas having been already established. Brickhouse Records specializes in pre-production for all types of music. We are a Virginia Beach studio that helped thousands of artists with pre-production for their projects. When you schedule a pre-production meeting, we will help you plan out all the finer details of your session. We can plan out what instrumentation or recorded music you will use, help you organize lyrics sheets, figure out song arrangements and much, much more.

 

PRE-PRODUCTION CHECKLIST 

• Confirm the lyric is as strong as it can be, and the song concept is fully realized and has enough ‘weight’ to engage listeners
• Confirm you are not ruining the singer’s brand or image by putting those words in the singer’s mouth!  Especially when it’s you!
• Confirm it is as effective as it can be made in terms of structure (verse, pre-chorus, bridge, double chorus, and so on)
• Confirm the key is the best key for the singer
• Confirm the tempo (BPM) and any swing factor (time feel) compliments the song nicely.  You can even try different versions at different tempos, but pick the most likely first and proceed with that.  You may find you won’t need other options after all.   A good rule of thumb is to use a fixed whole-number BPM at all times.  You need a really good musical reason not to do this – it is limiting your options and making work unnecessarily not to bother with a click track and a known BPM, whether it changes during the piece or not, unless there will be no overdubs.
• Think about the sounds you want in each section.  Start with sounds for the most powerful song section, usually a chorus in the last third of a song.
• Think about an “intro” section – what will grab the listener’s attention and hold it?
• Think about an “outro” – are you fading out or do you have a definite ending?  Fading quickly or slowly?
• Running time of the final record can matter to some folks.  Obviously, radio DJs aren’t gonna play twelve-minute songs.
• Plan for a bridge or a breakdown (if you have either) that will take listeners to a different place than the other sections.  Contrasts are are a big part of keeping people’s attention.  Whatever is happening in your recording, contrasts of all kinds will be a key goal.
• Plan for the dynamics of the music and the performances.  Have a vision for where things will get loud and for how long, and where they will feel noticeably quieter.  Take us on a better ride by knowing where the ride goes ahead of time.
• Locate any musicians you need for instruments you want to use but cannot play, and ask them if they want to participate. We know a number of local musicians who can be sought out for your songs!
• Settle on how any other musicians you use will be recompensed, and take notes of contact details and any work planned for them or done by them
• Plan for crediting musicians (ask them if and how they want to be credited for work performed)
• Keep ALL your pre-production notes, communications (email, IM, FB messages, old-fashioned letters, etc) and other records for legal and accounting reasons.  Especially keep notes and receipts for monies spent or received.
• Make sure you have new strings on stringed instruments and that the strings have had an hour or two of playing in.  Change drumheads if your tone is too dull on real drums.
• Take a deep breath now that pre-production is done, and look forward to a successful recording session!  Good luck.  It gets easier every time.

 

Recording Studio and Pre-production Consultations
In Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, VA and the greater Hampton Roads area
www.brickhouserecordsva.com
(757)971-2381 For a Booking.

Located At 7821 Nth Military Hwy, Norfolk,V A
Or email us at brickhouserecordsva@yahoo.com

Audio Classes

 

We offer a special recording workshop for people interested in learning how to properly use a Pro Tools equipped Virginia Beach studio! Our audio classes can range from 1-3 hours and classes will be scheduling soon. Slots are being filled so make sure you signup, because space is limited. There will be a certificate offered upon completion as well! We are genuinely interested in helping people make their musical dreams come true, so let us show you the way to great tracks though hands-on learning.

From the largest recording facilities to the smallest bedroom studios, Pro Tools is the most popular sound creation and production system in the world. You will work with a veteran recording engineer with years and years of experience in our audio classes. He will make sure you understand every concept and if you own a Pro Tools system of your own, you will be given recording sessions to practice on between our audio classes. The practice exercises cover topics from basic session setup to advanced mixing techniques, so you’ll get a broad ranging educational experience. Your instructor will explain to you exactly what makes a quality recording, and not just how to fix one particular song, but techniques that will prepare you to work on any projects including microphone setup, signal flow, EQ, compression, gating, reverb, and effects. We don’t give you the fish, so to speak, we teach you how to fish! If you think you’re ready to finally stop wondering if you could engineer and ready to start learning how, call us up at (757) 971-2381.

 

Recording Studio
In Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth VA Hampton Roads
www.brickhouserecordsva.com
(757) 971-2381 For a Booking. Located At 7821 Nth Military Hwy Norfolk VA.
Or email us at brickhouserecordsva@yahoo.com

Mastering

 

 

Virginia Beach Mastering Studio – Your music might have been recorded at one studio and mixed at another; or possibly recorded and mixed at home. Either way, it needs to be optimized to play its best on a multitude of playback systems.

It needs to be adjusted so that it sounds good on the best home stereo as well as a not so good car stereo or boom box. Our Virginia Beach Mastering Studio adds the right amount of E.Q. to make the whole mix sonically acceptable. After this, the proper amount of multi-band compression, and/or limiting needs to be added to bring up the overall dynamics so your songs sound loud and punchy, without being distorted, giving you that “Big Label” sound. Your music will be clearer and more refined! This is a must if you want your songs to be played on the radio; all radio songs are mastered to make sure they hit the speakers at optimum loudness.

Like everything else, it requires a great deal of skill to give you the results you want with mastering. It also requires specialty gear, which we have invested a great deal of money in obtaining. We use only the best pre-amps, compressors and E.Q.’s during audio mastering. All editing is done in the digital domain until processing, when we then use analog gear to give “Warmth” and “Air” to the sound. After this, your song is converted back to digital using only the best 24/96 converters, so that a CD master can be made to industry standard Red Book specifications, ready for pressing.

Recording Studio
In Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth VA Hampton Roads
www.brickhouserecordsva.com
(757)971-2381 For a Booking. Located At 7821 Nth Military Hwy Norfolk VA.
Or email us at brickhouserecordsva@yahoo.com