Two Weeks @ Two Sticks.

This past Summer the owner of Two Sticks Audio approached me with a pretty terrific proposition.  ”Save me a couple weeks in August [our busiest time] to do some work at my studio,” he said, “I’ll throw in evenings and weekends for you to record tracks for your next album… and I’ll provide an engineer.”  It really didn’t seem like a fair trade so I threw in a concrete counter-top for one of the two bathrooms I was remodeling for him and we had a deal.  We hung some doors, trimmed some windows and we cut in a “tunnel” from his drum room into his lounge so he could capture some huge drum sounds by placing a mic in the bigger of the two rooms.  Anyhow, before this turns into a musicians geeky tech blog it will suffice to say that we all had an amazing time during those two weeks, using our carpentry skills during the day, and our musical skills during the night (Yes, most of us are carpenter/musicians).  We put some great finishing touches on the space, and walked with hours of great sounding music.  

We were invited back for another two weeks this last December to add a kitchenette, update a bathroom and cut in one more window (the lounge sounded so good they started recording in there and needed the make a sight-line from the drummer’s seat to the piano in the lounge). All the glass is from McIntosh Glass in Ballard, the cabinets & counter-tops are IKEA, the trim treatment is tight knot cedar from Dunn (formerly Olsen) Lumber, the doors are from Frank Lumber, and the sinks & fixtures are from Aurora Plumbing.  We finished this one early and under budget!