Philadelphia based audio engineer.
Contact: info@bradwallacerecording.com

Philadelphia Phillies “Because Baseball” Commercial

Last year I had the opportunity to work with my old friend Tim Gough on a song for the Philadelphia Phillies via his company Truth & Consequences. We were asked to do “Take me out to the ballgame” in a “punk” style in 30 seconds exactly. This was composed and performed by Tim and I, and recorded, mixed and mastered by me. This was super fun to work on and I’m totally stoked on the final product. It was cool to see our work on TV. If you need music/recording/mixing/mastering for your video content please get in touch.

QUEASY BOIS “Far Out Man” Video

My all virtual quarantine band (Queasy Bois) made a music video for our third song. Queasy Tim got radical with some animation and dropped the “Ancient Alien” vibes on me which of course is awesome because he’s awesome. It’s barely more than a minute long so smash play. Also scroll down to the post where I posted our first two songs if you dig this http://www.bradwallacerecording.com/quarantine-band/

Ron and Matt Must Listen Podcast

Ron and Matt invited me to come on their very cool podcast last year where they invite guests to discuss a singular album which they listen to and study, whether they know it well or don’t know it all. I decided I really wanted to talk about the Man is the Bastard album “Thoughtless” for my episode. Those of you who have known me for 20 years or so know that my life has all been leading to talk about MITB on a podcast for two hours. I also do a fair amount of talking about my old bands, and telling music stories. Good stuff and I recommend checking out other episodes of this podcast especially if you see they covered an album you like. They just releases this episode as part of Season 2.

Open Mind Saturated Brain Podcast

I went on a podcast with Dave from Zegema Beach records last year and talked about how I got into music as a kid, all the bands I was in, and talked about and shared some of the music that influenced me. Give it a listen if any of that sounds fun. Great questions and good time. Thanks again Dave!

Archival Projects

While people were stuck at home for all of 2020 it seems many of you were eventually going through your basements, finding your old projects, and wondering if they could be digitized and made to sound better all these years later. The answer is YES! I was contacted by many people who had made simple home recordings during the pandemic, had found the DAT tape of their old high school band from a recording studio, or even just a practice tape of a band long forgotten. In every case there is usually an option to make these recordings sound better and digitize them for preservation and streaming. If you have a project like this that you’ve dug up in the last year or at any other time, don’t hesitate to get in touch. I would love to help you with it. info@bradwallacerecording.com

Quarantine Band

I ended up starting a band with my friend Tim via a Slack channel I have with some friends. We had no plans to start a band, but some jokes about band names suddenly led to him making a drum beat during his lunch break, and then me sending it back to him with a bass line a day later. Tim and I have never played music in the same room together, and he hasn’t been in a band or a recording studio since high school. This project has been done entirely by sending tracks back and forth, and typing messages to each other about the parts and what to do next. This aspect was really interesting for me songwriting wise, as it really opened the doors to a lot of possibilities that I’ve never considered while writing songs in the same room as a full band. I’ve always approached writing rock music as a live piece, and these songs were written entirely with the studio production in mind, with no limitations to how many parts their could be at any given time. It was also a great opportunity to rethink any song ideas we had and chop them up and repurpose them as we saw fit. Certainly the second song is long way from the minimalist reggae song it started out as, due to moving parts around, and creating new parts via the editing of older ideas. This project has also been done only on virtual instruments, which I think helped the process of using the studio as a songwriting vehicle. I also enjoyed explaining and walking Tim through some concepts and instructions since he had to write and record his parts on his own, at home. It was a great exercise to explain to Tim how he should record or re-record his own parts, and work together to make songs that we both like. I’m really happy with how these sound given the circumstances, and using a new process for songwriting was very illuminating. Excited to work on more tracks for this project, and if for some reason you hear this and want to sing on them, get in touch.

QB 1
QB 2

The Blinding Light at the End of the Earth

I have worked with Nat Coghlan on a lot of projects over the years, usually more rock based, so I was pretty interested when he sent me these drone loops to work on early on, early in the pandemic. I enjoyed getting lost in a hybrid “mixing/mastering” project of these tracks that he recorded with his phone. Nat’s own description of the project is even more illuminating.

“Written and recorded over the first seven days of the shelter in place.

Thinking that shelter in place would only last two weeks, I assumed that these would be the first half of songs that I wrote for this project. I envisioned a musical snapshot of what I thought would be a bizarre, but brief time.

Each day, after recording a song, I would email it to a small group of friends, like a drone-a-day subscription service. I don’t think anyone was clamoring for the songs, but having said that I would send them kept me accountable, and made sure that I sat down with my guitar before the day was over, even if I felt like just falling asleep on the couch instead.

The repetition of the songs accidentally mirrors how the early days felt during the pandemic. Listening back to them, they have another quality that mimics the pandemic. It’s not exactly clear where you are in any given song. The middle, towards the end? How much longer will this go on for? Weeks, months?”

Nat went on to make a track everyday for 4 weeks.

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Orange AD 200

Finally went out and got the Bass Amp I’ve always wanted for the studio, by selling off some gear that wasn’t being used very often. I love how this thing sounds and how well it stands out in a mix.

Sounds really great with Darkglass Bass Preamp Pedal, Tronographic Rusty Box, or the new Orange Two Stroke pedal.

Orange AD200

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ladder Devils “Teenage Nuance” E.P.

Ladder Devils came to the studio about 2 years ago and recorded all the basics for drums, bass, and guitar with me. I then gave them a mix of all those elements and then they recorded and mixed their own vocals, a couple guitar leads, and other sounds over the top of it, as well as mastering it themselves. A somewhat unorthodox method to make a record, but all that matters is that it sounds pretty cool in the end.

 

 

https://ladderdevils.bandcamp.com/

 

 

TINY VICES E.P.

George Chamberlain has been coming to the studio, pretty much as long as I’ve been doing it, and always brings something fun to work on. This time he showed up with Tiny Vices which includes Matt and Brendan from his old band Aim of Conrad, who I hadn’t crossed paths with since I still lived in Boston 10+ years ago. These guys laid down 4 songs of catchy, heavy, noisy, grungy, Rock ‘N’ Roll. Do yourself a favor and give it a listen. Recorded and Mixed by me. Mastered by AudioSiege.

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/tinyvices/