Located on Azalea Place in the creative hamlet of Berry Hill, Playground Recording thrives for many reasons, the most important being that its manager uniquely understands the needs of its clients. Playground Studio Manager Tim Coyle learned the studio biz in '90s-era Nashville, where he began as an intern at the Sound Kitchen in Franklin under the tutelage of owners/producers John and Dino Elefante. Assisting for a half-decade as the Kitchen grew around him, Coyle gained nearly 15 years of engineering experience there before a two-year stint at another Franklin-area studio, Dark Horse Recording.
by Sally House, executive producer/co-founder,The Hit House Founded in 2005, The Hit House has built an enviable track record providing custom music for movie trailers, TV commercials, videogame marketing efforts and other projects in the competitive Los Angeles market. The company's executive producer/co-founder, Sally House, shares her thoughts here on what it takes to work at that level.
"What I like to do is develop [the live mix] and put it away. I label it on the console 'Static Mix' so that when I get sideways, I can always go back to it to see what it is that I've screwed up. And believe me, we can screw things up. I call it the 'Creep Factor'we're humans, and, by nature, we want to continue to fiddle with stuff and make things better in our mind. " Greg Price, FOH engineer, Black Sabbath