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Services and skills

  • solo violin/fiddle: classical, contemporary, bluegrass, oldtime, rock; improvisation

  • string arrangements & performance: violin, viola, cello

  • orchestration

  • misc. auxilliary: plectrum, percussion, vox

  • engineering & production: tracking, editing, mixing

My studio

  • A carefully curated assortment of quality microphones including Neumann, Coles, Samar, Vanguard, Shure, Electro-Voice, and more

  • Merging, SPL, and API preamps and conversion for depth, detail, and punch

  • Top-notch monitoring via Amphion One15

  • Excellent options for outboard compression and EQ, along with a vintage RE-301 Chorus Echo tape delay, and the Bricasti M7 for lush and realistic reverb

  • Acoustically treated and lovingly tuned room for effortless tracking and well-informed mixing

  • A wide range of instruments, from fine to funky: antique Italian, French, German, and American violins, five-string violin, viola, octave violin, cello, various acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, u-bass, piano, Moog analog synthesizer, several interesting flavors of tube amplifier, vintage Gretsch and Ludwig drums, and myriad noisemakers of the percussive persuasion

Discography

  • Tyler Ramsey - New Lost Ages (2024)

  • Mark Erelli - Mark Erelli (25th Anniversary Edition) (2024)

  • Ava Earl - Too Much (2023)

  • The Clements Brothers - Dandelion Breeze (2023)

  • Evening Pines - It Will Take a Long Time (2022)

  • Drift City - Deep Reverse (2022)

  • Carly Johnson - The Believer (2021)

  • Dawn Landes - Row (2020)

  • Rob Collier - Canon in 9 Sections (2020)

  • Drift City - Mercurial Mirrors (2020)

  • The Past and the Curious podcast (2020)

  • Daniel Martin Moore - Never Look Away (2019)

  • Rachel Grimes - The Way Forth (2019)

  • So It Was - So It Was (2019)

  • Strand of Oaks - Eraserland (2019)

  • Tyler Ramsey - For The Morning (2019)

  • Chris Crofton - Hello It's Me (2018)

  • Jake Shears - Jake Shears (2018)

  • Rachel Grimes - The Doctor From India [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (2018)

  • Daniel Martin Moore - Turned Over To Dreams (2017)

  • Jenna Dean - "Ambition" (2017) & "Apathy" (2017)

  • Louisville Orchestra - All In (2017)

  • Waxfang - Victory Laps (2017)

  • Basia Bulat - Good Advice (2016)

  • Stephen Couch & The Betweeners - Guilty Pleasure (2016)

  • The 23 String Band - 23SB (2016)

  • Twin Limb - Haplo (2016)

  • Daniel Martin Moore - Golden Age (2015)

  • Rachel Grimes - The Clearing (2015)

  • Niles Foley - Show Me The Way (2015)

  • Alanna Fugate - Ewing (2015)

  • Sarah Elizabeth Burkey - Door of the Moon (2014)

  • The 23 String Band - Bangin' and Clangin' (2014)

  • Thirty Spokes - Thirty Spokes (2014)

  • Waxfang - The Astronaut (2014)

  • Houndmouth - From The Hills Below The City (2013)

  • Jim James - Regions of Light and Sound of God (2013)

  • Waxfang - King of the Kingdom of Man (2013)

  • Another7Astronauts - The Golden Autumn & The Afternoon (2012)

  • Earl Guthrie & The Boxwine Prophets - Earl Guthrie & The Boxwine Prophets (2012)

  • Thirty Spokes - Roll The Dice (2012)

  • Rachel Grimes - Marion County 1938 (2011)

  • The 23 String Band - Catch 23 (2011)

  • Alanna Fugate - Pink Elephants (2010)

  • Daniel Martin Moore & Ben Sollee - Dear Companion (2010)

  • Saredren Wells - Memories Are Hunting Horns (2010)

  • Soapbox - Lead Filled Can (2010)

  • Waxfang - The Astronaut Part 1 (2010)

  • The Jawbones - Banjoreno (2009)

  • Various - Face a Frowning World: An E. C. Ball Memorial Album (2009)

  • Ben Sollee - Learning To Bend (2008)

  • Century of Aeroplanes - Slow and Drastic (2008)

  • Century of Aeroplanes - A Simple Process (2007)

  • Peter Searcy - Spark (2007)

  • Century of Aeroplanes - Two Children Moving in Opposite Directions (2006)

  • Century of Aeroplanes - Repellent Communications of Sea Creatures (2006)

  • The Muckrakers - Front of the Parade (2005)

  • and more…