Greetings fellow indies. It’s been a wild and busy week at the studio, carrying on with Studio 2.0 Artists TroNic, Detch Jennings, Andrea Gauster, The Rough Boys and Chadwick. Later this week, we will announce a few new Studio 2.0 Artists … we can’t wait!

In other news, we have recently launched the TroNic Open Artist Development group via the Euphonic Community. Open Artist Development groups are collaborative communities where we post a Studio 2.0 artists’ music, artwork, designs, business plans, marketing plans, financial plans and much more. The goal of these OAD groups is to provide all of you indie artists with examples of independently produced content, and to help you formulate your own business / marketing plans. We also need your ideas and input, so please contribute to the group. Check out the (oddly funny) tutorial video below featuring Companero Connor:

For those of you interested, head on over to the Euphonic Community and join the TroNic OAD group. We can’t do this without your feedback!

In other session news (and in the picture below) you can see Mizzle (from lovely Bermuda) in the control room, who’s specialty is hiphop. Its always a pleasure when Mizzle stops by to grace us with his enjoyable musical presence.

Until next time,

- Companero Shawn

Hey everyone, over the past few months we’ve been helping Douglas Hicton realize his musical adaptation of the film “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.”



It’s been an intense project, and Doug has brought in a wide variety of talented individuals. The music was composed by Doug, and features amazingly complex vocal harmonies – 16-20 voices at times! – backed by an orchestral score. Recording is now complete and we are moving on to the mixing phase, which should wrap up in the next few weeks.



It’s been quite the adventure seeing the project progress over the past few months; starting with an orchestral .wav file and gradually building a musical production under Doug’s watchful eyes – and ears. We snapped a few photos of the final recording session, hope you like them.

We are proud to introduce new Studio 2.0 artist Chadwick, a rapper from Toronto. Check out the slide show below for yesterday’s session; we tracked “In My Zone”, the third song we’ve been working on with Chadwick.

Over the past few weeks we have been tracking “Sealed Tight” and “As I Sing My Song” – both excellent hiphop tracks. Our next session is coming up this Monday Feb. 22nd @ 6pm, check us out on Twitter to follow along.



Studio 2.0 includes a website, business/marketing plan and creative design amongst many other benefits geared towards the success of the independent recording artist. We are at the initial conception stage with Chadwick and very excited to be working with this talented hip hop renegade. More info on the way….Stay tuned!



In the meantime, join the Euphonic Community for exclusive updates, and access to Chadwick’s upcoming Open Artist Development group where you will have the chance to comment on Chadwick’s business plans, and contribute to the development of the Chadwick brand!

Going into Thursday night’s session with the latest Studio 2.0 band The Rough Boys, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I assumed that they were a bluegrass or an alt-country band. Man was I wrong and glad of it! As soon as the band’s drummer Sam, aka “The Wildman” sat down and proceeded to beat the hell out of the drums, it was non-stop rock n’ roll from there. Their songs are pushed by catchy Zeppelin-esque guitar riffs and have a killer rhythm section to fill out the groove.

They’re at Euphonic Sound recording their debut EP entitled “Showing Teeth” and describe themselves as cut throat rock n’ roll. Both seem fitting enough. They have a bite and edge to their sound that doesn’t need a deafening wall of Marshall amps cranked to 11. This is undoubtedly because of Alex “Spooky” Bernier, the axe man in The Rough Boys. He has the right mix of disciplined guitar lines and power chords.

Tom “Stonewall” Gervais, the bands bassist is clearly the cohesive element to their sound. He keeps their music flowing with driving bass lines. But, these sessions are also a chance to welcome their new singer Jack Cerre. He doesn’t have a nickname yet, but I’m sure it’ll come by the time “Showing Teeth” is released.

It’s going to be an exiting album when it’s all said and done; I can tell you that.

Last weekend, we started the drum tracking for new Studio 2.0 artist Detch Jennings. Check the post below for more info on him!

We started with the track “Calling On Hope” and moved onto “Mother Dearest”. After a couple hours we finished the session with the tracks “Just Words and Music” and “Wake Up”.

Detch Jennings’ roots are mostly in metal, but fans of acoustic rock are going to have to check this one out. We’re talking Bad Religion and Rise Against style harmonies, hooky rhythms and catchy melodies. We’ve got the ball rolling with Detch Jennings, and we sure as hell can’t wait to see where it rolls.

We hired Justin Forfar of local punk band 48 Caliber to hammer off the drum tracks, and as always, he nailed each and every song.

Check out the images from the session below! You’ll also see a couple members of our established audio engineering interns and Studio Manifesto authors Connor and Andy. Interested in developing and sharpening your skills in a professional recording studio and supporting the independent music community? Send us an email and let us know!