Audio Production

Grammy and wammy (Washington Area Music Awards) winning artist have recorded at VideoDC.

Erich Russek recieved the first advanced recording certificate from Omega Recording School in the early 80s. He was also an engineer at Omega and helped with the contruction of the facilites in Kensington.

He studied at Guitar Institute in Los Angeles and has toured across the country several times. While in LA he worked at several of the major record companies including EMI, Capital, and Island Records which has given him some intereting insite into their process.

He has placed songs on the radio, television, corporate videos and in the movies. He has three CDs.

Studio Equipment

• Unlimited tracks using Digital Performer
• Mac G5 dual processor and PC computers.
• MOTU 896
• Sound Forge
• Gigastudio
• Sonar
• Makie UAD-1
• Sound Soap
• Other MIDI and sound editing tools.
• Various Rack Gear
• Drum machine, vocal harmonizer.
• Tascam Reel to Reel 8 track - Analog tracking
• Tascam Mixing Board
• Farfisa Professional
• Roland Juno 60
• Yamaha Motif
• Guitars, bass, banjo, saz and other stringed instruments.

Samples

• When You Are Use To The Rain
• What Are You Afraid Of?
• I Shall Be Released
• Christine's Theme

Workshops

• MP3 Class-On several occasions Erich has given technology workshops. Here is one sponsored by Songwriters Associations of Washington (SAW).
• Workshop on microphones and mic placement (ppt)

Price

Musical projects are priced by project. Some factors that may play into the cost are demo vs. album, tracking or mix down, if we supply the musicians (we know some great musicians) or schedule. Give us a call and tell us about your project.

Corporate projects such as voiceovers, track conversion, over-the-phone interviews, track eq or cleaning are from $125 hr.

We also have composed music for movies and television.