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A
sampling of unsolicited client quotes::
"John
Reynolds has become family and is, as always a wonderful collaborator
and producer - the Blue Studio is a musical heaven."
"John Reynolds, a wonderful person to collaborate with....we can't
think of any better."
Gwynne Cropsey and Steven Snyder of Zun Zun
"A
special thanks to our friend and mentor John Reynolds whose patience,
professionalism and wisdom made this project a joyous journey."
Hollowdog
"Thanks
again for the great work you did on the mastering. I've listened to the
before and after versions of our record, and I think you really improved
things. You were also a great guy to work with, very detail-oriented."
Scott
McDonald, Rum And Rebellion
"Thank
you for going all the way through with Pele Juju -- we really would not
have made it (Pele Juju Live!) without you."
Molly Higbie, Pele Juju
"As
always, you come through"
Lile Cruse, producer and music director,
Cabrillo Stage
"Special
thanks to John Reynolds for contributing on so many levels and making
it fun. John is a masterful wizard behind the console, performing or arranging...I
have recorded in Austin, Dallas and Seattle but have never experianced
the fun, professionalism, creativity and dedication to the music that
I found at Cool Blue Studio..."
James Allred, singer/songwriter
"Thank
you, John for all the wonderful sound...Sound added a lot to
the overall production. It was wonderful listening to it all"
Edit Villareal, playwright, faculty U.C.L.A.
"We all seemed
to have grown as musicians because of our experience with you at Cool
Blue. It's like our eyes and ears have been opened to allow us to truly
hear our music.... That listening and awareness has made us much better
musicians and a much better band, thanks. I really look forward to working
with you again."
Rich
Norkunas, Hollowdog
"John
Reynolds- you have the skill of a surgeon and the heart and soul of an
artist."
Julia Korena, singer/songwriter
"I
love Austin and am so happy to be here making things happen and using
our cd to market myself, it sounds great!."
Christine Young of The Christine Young Band
"Thank you for making such a fine and integral contribution... I
appreciate your willingness, flexibility, and always, your professionalism
-- your expertise."
Trace Ashley, Pele Juju
"I also want to thank John for his assistance with production and
arrangement. His love of the art is a constant inspiration."
Rory Koshlaychuk
"Thanks for all the great work on my C.D. You're fab! ...Thanks and
thanks again, you're the greatest!"
Ukulele Dick
"Blessings
and mucho gratitude!"
Saniel Bonder
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News
and recent projects
2008:
Cool
Blue Review is back at the White
Eagle Saloon February
9 with Tyler Stenson and Lander, The Dead Beetles and Audio Fatigue.
2007:
The Cool
Blue Review returns to McMenamins' White
Eagle Saloon
on Saturday nights, beginning January 12, '08
Each review will showcase three Cool Blue Studio artists.
New
bossa from Bossa
Nouveau!
The first of two long awaited CDs from guitarist Jorge Zamarano's Bossa
Nouveau is finished mixing and mastering! Tracking was completed for the
second CD, and final edits mix tweaks and mastering are underway!
Both CDs feature elegant, playful, virtuosic performances from Jorge,
flautist (and whisteler!) Liberty Broilett, and bassist/flugelhorner Thomas
Williams on originals and timeless Latin standards.
The new CD by James
Faretheewell (AKA Allred), over a year in the making, has finished
mixing and mastering. James' brilliant songwriting and vocal style is
complimented by extraordinary guest musicians including Jorge Zamarano,
Jeff Cooper, Jonathan Neher, and Terra Peach.
The Hollowdog
CD has been released, look for them rockin' and skankin' at a juke joint
near you!

Big
fun August 11, sitting in with Vivid Curve at the Bite Of Oregon Festival
in Portland!
The
Cool Blue Review at the White Eagle on June 29 was a
blast!
All of the bands played great and the place was packed.
Thanks to all who attended and participated.
Mixing
a new CD
for melodic Portland rock band, Audio
Fatigue.
Begun tracking for the second Dead Beetles CD.
FInished
mixing and mastering the Hollow Dog project, should be
ready for release soon.

ZunZun
"Dance Chikadee" from ZunZun's
Flabbergasted CD is featured in a new comedy called My
Suicide, starring Mariel Hemmingway, Harry Shearer,
Nora Dunn and David Carradine. The film will
debut at the Sundance Film Festival this year!
Tracking
continues for James Allred and Hollow Dog.
Bossa
Nouveau's two
new CDs of Brazillian jazz are nearing completion and starting mastering.
Songwriter Greg
Thelen's CD Enough Thunder has been released and
is available at CD
Baby.
Oher
recent CD releases include Vivid Curve's Synesthesia,
and The Gil Reynolds Trio.
2006:
Tracking has begun for James
Allred's second Cool Blue CD.
Hollowdog
will be in this fall for their new CD project.
John's
song Soledad is featured in Nuestra Familia, airing in
major cities nationwide this month on PBS. Broadcast dates here.
Songwriter
Greg
Thelen is in to mix and master ten songs for his upcoming
CD.
The Dead Beetles (formerly the John Reynolds/George Turner
Duo) recorded a CD of original and cover songs, just as we play them live,
acoustic guitar and bass or cello and two vocals.
The
Gil Reynolds Trio (no relation) is in to record a CD of Gil's
original songs.
Gil is a finalist in the Portland Songwriters Assn. 2006 Road To The Bite
competition and will be appearing at the Bite Of Oregon Festival in Portland
on Sunday, August 13.
Lander,
led by singer Tyler Stenson, came in to master their new CD Orange
Chrome Sky. Check out the CD release party July 25 at the Doug Fir
in Portland.
Sketchy
Ted was in to master their newest CD. This Portland band
plays consise pop rock with tinges of punk, ska, R&B and country.
Fun stuff!
Vivid Curve
has finished their new CD "Synesthesia", a very unique and exciting
album, featuring talented guest artists from all over the musical map.
Listen to Vivid Curve here.
Pele Juju Live! CDs (discontinued) have been selling for over
$100 used on Amazon.com! Listen
to "Move" from Pele Juju Live! here.
Julia
Korena is creating a buzz on GarageBand.com
with the song "Baby Lie".
Best
Female Vocals in Pop Rock, week of 17Apr2006
Best Programming in Pop Rock, week of 17Apr2006
Chill-Out Track in Pop Rock, week of 17Apr2006
Best Elevator Song overall, week of 17Apr2006
Best Elevator Song in Pop Rock, week of 17Apr2006
Listen to "Baby Lie" here.
Cool
Blue Studio hosted it's third Portland
Songwriter's Association songwriting seminar on March 21, featuring
Nashville resident (Portland raised) Craig
Carothers. Those
attending were treated to inspiring insights into Craig's creative process
and the art, craft and business of songwriting.

PSA seminar with Craig Carothers at Cool Blue Studio 3/21/06

Vivid Curve
is in working on a new CD of their unique music.
On
January 18th, N.A.R.A.S. sponsored a Grammy Career Day at Portland Community
College for area high school students.
The event featured panel discussions and workshops on a wide variety of
subjects relating to working in the music Industry and a live performance
by Lifesavas. John and Rob Stroup of Eight Ball Studios led a workshop
on record production.
2005:
Mastering
for digeridoo based trio Vivid
Curve.
In
November Cool Blue Studio hosted it's second songwriter's seminar sponsored
by the Portland
Songwriters Association and featuring L. A. songwriter Wendy
Waldman, who has written hits for Linda Ronstadt, the Nitty
Gritty Dirt Band, Randy Travis, Mellissa Manchester and many more.i
An
original song composed and performed by John Reynolds (Soledad)
will be featured in a documentary film Nuestra
Familia (our family), produced by the Center For Invetigative
Reporting in San Francisco, slated for nationwide broadcast on PBS next
fall. The
film also features Tres Generaciones by client Bossa
Nouveau.
Zun Zun is
once again a finalist in a major songwriting competition.
Their song Outside placed in the VH1 Song Of The Year contest,
with judges including Norah Jones!
Go to the Audio Samples
page to listen to Outside.
The Julia Korena CD is complete!
CDs available
here.
Mastering for Salinas punk/roots/folk trio Rum and Rebellion.
CDs available
here.
Recording
the West Linn High School Jazz Band under the direction
of drummer/teacher Jeff Cumpston.
Mastering
for Portland songwriter Russell Stafford.
CDs available
here.
Mastering
for Santa Cruz blues rockers The Koz, featuring Rory
Koshlaychuk.
CDs available here.
Recording
continues with jazz saxaphonist Noah
Peterson and producer Jeffrey Dawkins, recording
some tasty duos and trios for upcoming CD release.
Recording
and arranging new music for cable TV show Upland
Days With Dash and Dez.
The
March 19 PSA Songwriters Clinic with hit writer Steve
Seskin was a huge success with 22 songwriters in attendance.
Topics covered lyrics, melody, song structure and music business, and
Steve's passion and dedication to the art and craft of writing was inspiring
to all.
Singer/songwriter
James Allred recorded eleven songs for his new CD.
John
co-produced with James, and played bass, keyboards and recorder in addition
to mixing and mastering.
CDs
available here.
Scott
Fisher's self titled second CD was released, featuring Chemicals
and For Today, recorded here. The first single, Nothing,
is being added to comercial radio playlists around the U.S.A..
CDs available here.
Long
time friends and clients Zun
Zun are finalists (one of six out of more than a thousand
entries) in the Independent Musicians World Series (sponsored by Billboard
Magazine and Discmakers), with Foggy Bossanova, a song from their
second CD Sea, Land and Sky.
Their third CD Beachcomber, recorded here last summer was recently
released. CDs available
here.
2005
marks the fifteenth anniversary of Reynolds Audio Production!
During this time,
John has produced, engineered, mastered or performed on hundreds of recording
projects, and engineered or performed for over a thousand live events,
in addition to consulting with numerous pro audio manufacturers, artists
and venues.
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studio
upgrades
2007
A pair of Cascade Fathead ribbon mics was added to the cool
blue mic cabinet.
The
Carvin XV112 guitar amp got a good tune up and all new tubes.
The
Line 6 Pod 2.0 guitar amp modeler was upgraded to a PodXT Live floorboard
with USB interface and modeled stomp box effects.
Behringer
Multicom four channel compressor/gate and EX800 effects were added to
the rehearsal PA system.
2006
The Radial Engineering X-Amp re-amping interface allows processing
of recorded tracks or other line level sources through two guitar amps
and/or stomp box effects at once.
The Mackie d8b console has been upgraded with the addition
of the Saturated Fat plug in from Acuma Labs, providing distortion and
cabinet modeling effects with full automation control within the console.
The console also benefits from a new 19" LCD monitor.
Major hardware
and software upgrades to the Pentium 4 computer have resulted in an
even more powerful and flexible workstation.
New features
include:
Dual 17" monitors
Over 600 GB of hard drive space accessable
RAM upgraded to 1.5 GB
Lynx L22 audio interface expanded to allow sixteen channels of input
and output via ADAT lightpipe.
Steinberg software upgrades:
Cubase SX 3.1
WaveLab 6.0
The Grand 2.1
Fxpansion
BFD drum software
2005
Mackie recording software Trackion 2 was recently installed, along with
a powerful group of plug-in instruments and processors.
Client
and friend James Allred donated a fine Sennheiser MD421 microphone to
the Cool Blue Studio.
THANK
YOU, JAMES!!!
2004
Garritan Personal Orchestra soft synth was installed, offering detailed
emulation of orchestral instruments and ensembles.
The
AKG C414EB mic was recently refurbished by AKG in Nashville, TN with
a new C12 capsule and new switches.
2003
Cubase SX 2.01, the most recent version of this powerful DAW software.
A
new Sony DVD+/-RW external USB drive allows fast and cost effective
backup and archive.
To
counter the summer heat wave, a 24k BTU air
conditioning system was recently installed, assuring
a comfortable creative environment, year round.
Complimenting
the Steinberg The Grand virtual piano software, is
the Native Instruments B4 virtual Hammond B3 organ,
with Leslie speaker as well as Vox, Farfisa and harmonium emulations.
Like
the piano, the B3 software sounds fantastic, and gives unprecedented
control over the lush classic organ sounds.
izotope
Ozone,
powerful high resolution mastering software
Diamond
Cut DC5, audio restoration and noise reduction software developed
for the restoration of Edison's earliest recordings. This amazing software
can improve the clarity of less than perfect recordings: remove pops,
clicks, hum, and broadband noise for musical or forensic applications.
Also
added was the new Bias SoundSoap plugin, which provides
broadband noise, hum and rumble reduction.
Primera
Bravo disc publisher, capable of making 25 CD copies at once
with full color on disc printing!
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2003-7 Reynolds Audio Production
Portland OR
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