Gourmet Goes Public!

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Our little baby has grown up, Gourmet Sound the project studio created by punk legend Greg Hetson (Bad Religion, Circle Jerks) and producer Steve Kravac (MXPX, Less Than Jake, Pepper) has gone public. After using the studio since 2005 as a private facility, 2009 marks the debut of a new option for bands and musicians, one that is affordable and where finished product sounds amazing! Welcome one and all, we look forward to serving you.

New Pro Tools Arrivals

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Gourmet Sound has just completed a huge purchase that is going to make life better immediately. We have taken delivery of a brand new Digidesign Pro Tools 8 HD3 Accel rig and a new Mac Pro computer. Our digital workstation is now cutting edge and this means easy transitions from other rooms when you book Gourmet for Mixing or Overdubbing. It also means lightning speed and 128 tracks of audio at any given time... awesome!

Vintage U67 Microphone Arrives

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Well this is probably one of the most exciting purchases we have ever made. Gourmet has just thrown down for a vintage Neumann U67 tube microphone. It is in great shape, and more importantly sounds absolutely huge. We have had the mic authenticated by our friend Charlie Bolois (Beck and Tom Petty's tech) at Vertigo Recording Services, and it's all original including the power supply. This is going to take vocals and overdubs of all sorts to the ultimate level! How excited are we about this addition? Enough to give the mic it's own page at our website! Special thanks to Ryan McGuire at Vintage King Audio in Detroit for helping us find the right transducer to make your recording dreams come true. We are very grateful for his help on this purchase so chalk up another one for the Motor City!

New Gourmet Site Launches

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Hello Friends, and welcome to the newly revamped Gourmet Sound website. This site contains lots of new features including Gourmet Radio. The radio program allows you to hear tracks that were actually tracked or mixed at Gourmet, so that you have a clear idea of what we are capable of doing and how great we can make your project sound. You will also find a new equipment list page with photos linked to our amazing guitar collection. Take a look around and see what we have to offer.

Tommy Stinson relaxes with Greg, Loomis Fall and a cocktail after a 'day in the office'

New Gourmet Engineer Arrives

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Gourmet Sound is proud to announce a new addition to the team. Noted Los Angeles engineer Josh Achziger has joined forces with Greg and Steve, and is now available to track and/or mix your next project. Josh has worked with a number of seasoned acts and has always imparted his own style and tone to each project while respecting the artists vision. Check out his discography here and book a session with him by emailing us at info@gourmetsound.net. Welcome aboard Josh we are proud to have you on our team.

Drum Room On The Horizon

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Hey sports fans we have more great news, plans have been drawn up and permits pulled for an addition to our studio structure. This will become our new drum room. The design consists of of a 440 square foot room with ten foot ceilings, and will sound huge. Check back in and we'll let you know how we are progressing. Meanwhile we'll continue to track drums in Greg's living room... which incidentally sounds freakin' great!

Early Strike Wrapping Up

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San Antonio pop-punkers have arrived back in LA after the holiday break and will be spending the next three weeks finalizing vocals and completing mixing of their debut full length. Steve Kravac is at the helm and we can tell you this record sounds amazing. Check them out at myspace.com/theearlystrike where the band has received get this, over 350,000 plays! Look for a tune on Gourmet Radio you'll see what we mean about these guys!

Mastering At Gourmet

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Always striving to improve the scope of services we offer Gourmet is proud to announce the addition of mastering services. Noted mastering engineer Michael Hateley has joined forces with us and will bring a new dimension to our business. He is a veteran of Warner Brothers mastering department. Check out Micheal's bio and discography here and book a session with him at info@gourmetsound.net. Oh, be sure to check out Near Miss on Gourmet radio, cuz his mastering work presided over that blazing sonic circus...

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