About Cantankerous Monk Productions
Services
My specialty is helping people develop their musical ideas into a complete vision, then co-producing a body of work that everyone is eager to share!
- Musical Collaboration and Lyric Writing
- Accompaniment on Bass, Guitar, Drums/Percussion, Keys/Synth, Voice, and other miscellaneous instrumentation for getting the desired texture/color/vibe
- Mixing - bring your stems or we can create them from scratch
- Recording - up to 32 tracks of portable, on-site recording
- Restoring and transferring old/damaged recordings
Equipment
- Custom/Dedicated Recording/Mixing Computer: Intel i9 with 64 GB RAM and over 10TB space
- Robust Plugin and Soft Synth Library: Plugin Alliance, Softube, Analog Lab, etc...
- Softube Console and Fader hardware with all of Softube's channel strip emulators (+ some other bells/whistles)
- Arturia AudioFuse 16rig with 16 channels of ADAT expansion:
- Audient ASP800
- Midas XL48
- Strong Mic Collection including Slate ML-1 & ML-2, Sputnik Tube, Roswell Cab, 2 AKG C214s, Shure SM81, Sennheiser e935, plus misc other Blue, EV, and Shure utility mics
- Kali and Martin Logan monitoring
- Korg 88-key weighted digital piano/controller
- Arturia KeyLab 49 mkii & Minilab mkii
- Mapex and Odery Acoustic Drums
- Alesis Strike 5-piece Electronic Drums
- Taylor c214 Acoustic Guitar
- Music Man Stingray 5; Fender Jazz Bass w/ DiMarzio Ultra Jazz PU upgrade & flat-wounds; Steinberger Spirit XT25-5
- Several other electric & acoustic guitars/basses
- Fender Hot Rod III; Fender Pro Junior (Plumb Crazy); Marshall JCM800-50; Line 6 Spider-100w Tube head w/4-12 Marshall cab; Orange Tiny Terror; Ampeg BA-210 w/4-10 Fender cab
- Lots of fun instruments for textures/effects including: 50's lap steel, mandolin, accordion, trombone, trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, french horn, obo, clarinet, flute, congas, djembes, etc.
How I work
I like to provide some up-front services for free to earn your trust and to get a sense of working together (eg: collaborating on a musical idea, then recording/mixing a single as a stream-quality MP3). Then, rather than pay-as-you-go, I prefer to work for points (proportional contribution as percentage of future royalties) ...like an All-In Producer but minus the upfront costs. For me, this is the best/fairest way to work; it's the least stressful and everyone is properly incentivized to focus on quality over speed. I'm an ASCAP member (Writer and Publisher) and am registered with The MLC. So, I can also help you protect your creative output and ensure performance/streaming royalties don't go unclaimed!