Our production and recording studios are a fun, relaxed environment where people feel comfortable creating and expressing ideas. Versatile and spacious, ours is one of the top scoring studios in Nashville.
Studio A features 5 big recording spaces including a recently added orchestra-size room, a piano room (with a Yamaha grand, Wurlitzer, Rhodes, Farfisa and more), and two comfortable lounges. Other resident instruments include a Hammond B-3, Pearl maple and vintage Ludwig drum kits, vintage guitars and guitar amps by Fender, Vox and Marshall.
Studio D has it's own lounge and a spacious control room featuring an 80-input Soundcraft 3200 desk, Protools HDX, and fully isolated overdub booth.
Studios B and C are small production suites for composing, editing, mixing and overdubbing.
Centered around a newly installed SSL XL9000K console is a collection some of the best analog and digital gear available: over 100 mic preamps, multi-channel monitoring by Blue Sky, compressors by dbx, Urie, Avalon and Tube-Tech, and custom made limiters and tube preamps built right here at the studio. Add in a 48 i/o Protools HDX rig loaded with plug-ins and a Studer A827 2″ and anything is possible.
One of the largest recording rooms in Nashville, this 55′ x 25′ tracking space with 22′ foot ceilings has a nice, smooth reverb tail that makes it a very musical space for recording orchestra (it easily holds 50 strings), choir, drums… whatever!
Built in it’s own completely isolated, floating building, this room is one of the quietest around and is a favorite of session musicians.
A musical, ambient tracking space. At roughly 480 square feet, the mixture of natural wood, soft acoustic walls and concrete floor make this a killer room for drums and percussion, but it is controllable enough to record great vocals in as well. A1 also has a large iso booth that we use for amps, acoustic guitar and acoustic bass.
A large and versatile room. With 14′ ceilings and almost 500 square feet on the floor, this room has a lot of air to its sound. A large 4′ x 8′ window opens to the Big Room and full-lite glass doors to the Control Room and Piano Room make for great visual communication. Home to our Hammond B-3, it’s a busy space in the studio.
And, with more than 60 vintage and new microphones, we make sure that great sound in the room makes it through to mix.
Studio D is a fully equipped tracking and mix room. The control room boasts an 80-input Soundcraft 3200 desk, Pro Tools HDX and a collection of vintage outboard. In addition to a spacious overdub booth, it has 24 tie lines and cue connections to the Big Room for the ability to track sessions of almost any size. With Blue Sky monitors and a plug-in set identical to Studio A’s, sessions can move effortlessly between Studios A and D for maximum efficiency.
Dan Rudin
Over the last thirty plus years, producer, recording and mix engineer Dan Rudin has amassed thousands of hours in studios around the world, receiving many awards and nominations, including two Grammys, and many gold and platinum records in the process.
In addition to his extensive record and film work, where his client list includes Riders In The Sky, Pixar, High School Musical 2, Chayenne, Matt Belsante, Tommy Torres, Billy Dean, Wynonna, Flick, The Newsboys, Puffy, Alberto Plaza and Disney, Dan produces and engineers audio for pretty much anything you can think of. Producing and recording dozens of Broadway cast albums and licensing tracks, hundreds of TV and radio commercials, more than 50 theme park shows, parades and spectaculars, over 4000 songs for educational curricula, and scoring mixer and score editor roles on original scores for video games like Monster Hunter World and films such as Boundin’, Sioux City and The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything have proven him a diverse and musical studio veteran.
His own composition work has earned him international acclaim, with his score for the Deutsche Bahn (Germany’s Rail System) commercial The Early Boss winning 6 international awards for best score. Together with his core team and network of composers and orchestrators, his company Dan Rudin Recording and Production has created custom music for global clients since 2004.
On top of his musical ability, Dan has a keenness with technology that is unmatched, whether finding just the right signal chain for each performer or managing complex setups in the control room. He was one of the first engineers to adopt the now dominant Pro Tools platform. This technical edge also extends to working under the hood. Dan maintains all of his own equipment for the best sound and reliability, and also actively contributes his own pro audio circuit designs and modifications to the community.
Above all, Dan is a passionate and articulate team leader who strives to exceed all client expectations. He and his team will bring exactly what is needed to your project in an interactive, engaging way that no one else can.
Chris McDonald
Emmy-Award winning composer and orchestrator Chris McDonald is the backbone of DRRP’s creative team. His experience spans every genre and period of music including big band jazz, salsa, pop, country and rock. With more than 6,000 recording sessions to his credit, his stylistic versatility, while retaining a unique voice, consistently adds to every project he undertakes.
Chris has arranged for 19 Grammy winning albums for recording artists including Carrie Underwood, Ricardo Arjona, Louis Fonsi, Jennifer Holliday, Gaby Moreno, Martina McBride, Amy Grant, Kirk Franklin, Sara Evans, and Patti Austin. His arrangements have been recorded by orchestras all over the world, and he is frequently called upon to conduct large studio orchestras, including the 80 piece orchestra on Matchbox 20’s “Mad Season” project.
Chris' latest album, "It's About Time," with his Chris McDonald Jazz Orchestra has garnered international aclaim. Pris-Move called it "indespensible"
Chris has orchestrated scores for several major motion pictures, among them All The Pretty Horses (which was nominated for a Golden Globe for best musical score), An Unfinished Life, Seabiscuit and Sioux City.
Chris and Dan have collaborated on countless projects since 1989. With DRRP, Chris has composed many projects including cues for SeaWorld’s POP and Shamu’s Christmas, orchestrations for SeaWorld’s IGNITE nighttime spectacular, Tokyo Disneyland’s Spooky Boo Halloween Parade, Disney Theatrical’s Freaky Friday and countless others. Chris also serves as DRRP’s musician contractor.
Mikey Allred
Recording Engineer Mikey Allred has been with DRRP for over 10 years, bringing to the team his unique blend of keen technical abilities, musicianship and indefatigable good humor. In addition to his work at DRRP, where he has contributed to most every project and is Chief Engineer in charge of all video post-production mixing, Mikey also maintains a client base of Rock and Heavy Metal bands like Glossary, All Them Witches, and Inter Arma that he produces, records and mixes.
Mikey is responsible for maintaining and updating DRRP’s server system, which provides secure, high speed access to projects from all the studios in the facility.
A skilled musician, Mikey has played keyboards, bass, drum set, theremin and trombone in bands that have toured widely throughout the U.S.
Kurt Goebel
An award-winning composer and arranger, Kurt combines a mastery of orchestral music with his deep vocabulary in EDM and pop music. Kurt studied piano at the University of Illinois and Media Writing and Production in that prestigious program at the University of Miami. His production experience with pop and rock artists gives him a unique voice in the theatrical and theme park worlds, earning him lead composer status for DRRP’s Electric Ocean and Ignite projects for SeaWorld in 2017. Kurt’s fusion of pop-orchestral composition is also highlighted in several cues in DRRP’s score for SeaWorld’s bubble show, POP.
Kurt has also worked extensively in the brand space. He’s created music and songs for brands such as Mercedes, BMW, Toyota, Ford, Samsung, Olay, and Opal. He’s also had countless songs placed in network trailers for ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX, and has has his music placed in national commercials and theatrical campaigns.
As an artist in his own right, Kurt is one half of the electronica duo Worldwide Groove Corporation. Their music has been heard, as well as licensed, around the world and remixes of their work have been licensed into film and TV.
Gina Graham
Gina is a freelance corporate management specialist with more than 30 years of experience as an accountant, HR manager and project coordinator. She has been with DRRP since 2008 (and with iV music since 2000) as accountant and served as project coordinator for Dan Rudin’s video game audio company, Music Game Studio, from 2009-2011.
While Gina divides her time between DRRP and clients in the health care industry, her love of music and creative teamwork is the reason her responsibilities at DRRP have grown to make her more and more indispensible.
Shane Burgess
Shane is an all-around musical force. A gifted trombonist and percussionist, Shane recently graduated with a BFA in music performance from Middle Tennessee State University. Combining a love of music technology with his skills as a performer, Shane is not only a valuable part of our engineering team, he's also a copyist in training here with formidable Finale skills as well as a promising young arranger.
In addition to increased time as first engineer behind our consoles (Shane has engineered string sessions for Blizzard, Ricardo Arjona and others), he has taken on project management for us on a grand level - including helping us deliver over 11 hours of music composition and production for Sea World Abu Dhabi.
622 Hamilton Ave
Nashville, TN 37203
United States
