BajaSound is pleased to announce the completion of the resource CD that will accompany the educational material associated with the project "Psicologia Ambiental en Sudcalifornia." Project coordinator, Matilde Cervantes Navarrete describes the work as the discipline and study of the relationship between the physical environment and the social behaviors and activities of people. The overall theme of the project is conservation of the environment. The material on the CD includes methods for developing environmental awareness in children, self empowerment tools for activating change from within and other techniques that support the theme that we and the environment are one, such that if the environment is unhealthy, then so are we. It was a privilege to work on this worthy project. You can learn more about it and listen to some samples from the CD on our Clients Page.

BajaSound is proud to be working, once again, with Centro Integral Cultura y Desarollo Humano S.A., who is directing the project "Psicologia Ambiental en Sudcalifornia." Our part of the project will be to record talks and meditations about the environment by professors, doctors and researchers, and then create meditative soundscapes which will enhance the spoken passages and create an immersive experience intended to help the listener not only to relax, but to reflect on and integrate the material.

BajaSound is very happy that the backing track of the song "Slippery Slope" we produced and contributed to the Maple Leaf Singer's "Rock This Town" concert was well received, especially by the original recording artist, Jeffery Straker, who was in attendance. We hope this may be the start of a rewarding musical relationship with the MLS and their musical director, Wilson Fowlie. A video of the performance will be available soon.

Gearing up for some great summer sounds, we are happy to have aquired several products from IK Multimedia. The first is ARC or Advanced Room Correction System, which helps us during mixing and mastering. The second is Sample Tank, a great sample workstation and several libraries of sounds like World Instruments, rhythms and vocals. We will be using both these new products on our three booked summer projects.

BajaSound is pleased to announce the completion of the demo CD for DJ Faktory Ceja, AKA Calte Ceja, AKA Juan Antonio Ceja Arias. This project is part of the Baja Sur government's Youth Development Program. We donated production and mastering time for the 10 songs, which all have positive messages for the youth of Baja Sur and elsewhere. You can read more about the project and hear a sample of Calte's work on our Clients Page. Felicidades y buen suerte Calte!

BajaSound is pleased to announce it's investment in Empirical Labs EL7 FATSO Analog Tape Simulator. The ingenious design and creative feature set gives the wonderfully warm and pleasing sound of magnetic recording tape, class A transformers, and tube circuits. Legendary engineers including Ed Cherney, Al Schmitt, and Brendan O'Brien, and artists including Paul McCartney, Trent Reznor, Blackalicious, Jack Johnson, and Avril Lavigne, have helped make the EL7 FATSO a modern studio standard.

BajaSound is pleased to announce it's investment in channel strip emulations of two classic audio consoles, the Neve RS88 and Solid State Logic's SL4000E.

NEVE 88RS
In 2001, Neve launched the 88 Series : A new, large-format analog console that represented the best of all Neve designs that came before it. Considered the ultimate console for modern features and reliability, it is also heralded as one of the best-sounding consoles ever made by veterans of both the audio and film communities. The 88RS has found a home in some of the finest rooms and scoring stages around the world, including Ocean Way, Abbey Road, AIR, The Village, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox and Skywalker Sound.

SSL SL4000 E-Channel
The SSL E-Channel delivers the incomparable sound of the Solid State Logic 4000-series console’s all-discrete design and its Class A, VCA chip. The equalization section of the SSL E-Channel is based on the renowned Black Knob equalizer, developed in 1983 with legendary producer George Martin. SSL claims that the 4000 has been the mixer behind more platinum selling albums than all other consoles combined.

With ticket sales of $5200 pesos, and other public and private donations, we were able to raise over $7200 pesos for the primary school Capitan Rosendo Robles. In addition to a cash donation, the sponsor, Pure Water, donatated 100 five gallon container of water to the school. We would like to thank our sponsors Pure Water, Caffe Milano, H20 Salon, BCS Environmental, Baja Housekeepers and El Circulo. In addition we would like to thank the band "Seven Clouds to Heaven", Felipe, Dario, and James, as well as other volunteers: Roz, Mary Lee, Paul, Kristi, Patrick, Ursula, Jon, Penny. Please forgive me if I missed anyone. We will be presenting the donation to the school Friday Feb 5th, during the morning flag ceremony.

BajaSound and Drum Studio El Circulo are pleased to be presenting "Jazz For Kids", a concert to raise money for escuela Capitan Rosendo Robles, a local public school. The concert, featuring the La Paz Jazz quartet "Seven Clouds to Heaven" and special guests Roz Oberlyn on harmonica and singer Mary Lee Huber, takes place at the Teatro Juarez from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm on January 30, 2010. All proceeds go to the school. We thank all the other sponsors for their time and help. See you there!

BajaSound aquires Alloy by iZotope. Alloy, like it's big brother, Ozone, is a new paradigm in the interface of DAW DSP by providing the most often used channel strip tools in a clear and easy to use presentation. In the end, this is just another option BajaSound is giving you, the client, to help you get the sound you want. Check out the demo!

DNA stands for Direct Note Access. So what's that? Many would say it is the attainment of a musical software Holy Grail. So what's that? Imagine you recorded a piano, guitar or any other instrument that can play more than one note at a time. Now imagine that the instrument and or artist is no longer available and you discover a wrong note or notes in their performance. Until now, there was nothing you could do. Celemony's new Melodyne product with DNA lets you alter, with surgical precision any note in any performance. It really is unbelieveable, but true and the software was finally released Nov 16, 2009 - and we have it! PS - Make sure you watch the video in HQ mode.

Waves, one of the preeminent recording studio plug in makers has just released version 7. There are many great new "under-the-hood" technological innovations you artists need not be concerned about, such as VST3 compliance and reduced memory footprint, but there are also some great new plug-ins, such as vocal rider.

BajaSound completes the new website for Hacienda Paraiso. Hacienda Paraiso is a new Bed and Breakfast here in La Paz which offers relaxed hacienda style living in a beautiful environment. The hosts, Gloria Laura and Richard, have worked very hard over the past few years building an exceptional vacation villa with a blend of old world charm and modern amenities.

BajaSound is pleased to announce a production deal with stage singer Laura Lothian, lead vocalist of the Baja South Band. Laura is a singer with a lush, full voice, and she and BajaSound are currently in A&R mode, choosing a repertoire that will showcase her amazing voice.

BajaSound is ecstatic to once again be chosen by five-time Silver Heart Award Winner Penny Buhr Johnson to produce her 3rd CD. Penny is a Christian singer with passion and emotion. We hope to live up to her talent.

Finally, after waiting almost a year, Celemony's Melodyne Editor with Direct Note Access has arrived, albeit in Beta form. True to its claims, you can record a polyphonic instrument, like a rhythm guitar, and then edit and change any of the notes you choose. Incredible! BajaSound was invited by the Melodyne developers to partake in the beta process. Con gusto!

Having been in the software industry for over 15 years while based in Vancouver, BajaSound, then Yaletown Sound, has returned to the web world and begun development of a site for Hacienda Paraiso de La Paz. The project is scheduled for completion in October. We will keep you posted!

We are happy to announce completion of the Baja South Band 3 song DVD demo. Contact Laura Lothian for a copy.

Rocker Vee Live returned to BajaSound to record his new single. Working with Vee is always a treat and we had lots of fun. The two tracks are now at SoundHound Mastering in New York City, where the production has received great reviews.

We have really enjoyed Vegas Pro 8, but the improved workflow, new camcorder format support, 64 bit platform support were just what we were waiting for!

BajaSound completes production of the new Bluz Explozion DVD, recorded live at La Panga Restaurant.

BajaSound adds the Pod X3 Live to our guitar effects rack. We also picked up a freaky new instrument called Spark for NI's Reaktor. Additionally, we invested in 4 new PowerCore plug-ins (Assimilator, Fabrik C, MasterX5 and Tap Factory) and 1 from UAD, the LA-3A audio leveler.

BajaSound is moving to a new location. We are closed until April 1.
BajaSound es cambiado su lugar. Vamos a abrir primero de Abril.

Grupo Paceño EdEmMa (Eduardo Daniel Hiralez Cadeña, Emanuel Cadeña Gómez y Manuel Cadeña Gómez) grabó 4 canciones originales. Escuchelos en la pagina clientes de BajaSound.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our clients and friends! BajaSound brings in the new year with two new VST intruments. We now have Ivory, by Synthogy, an incredible sampling of 3 grand pianos; the Steinway D, Bosendorfer 290, and the Yamaha C7. Check out a sample using this VST here and view the pianos that were sampled.

In addition, we have upgraded to Spectrasonics new Omnisphere Power Synth, incorporating their new STEAM Engine Techology (sounds old, but ya gotta hear it to believe it!). You can listen to a quick demo we whipped up in less than an hour here mixing some of Omni's newer sounds with some old school beetz, all set to some images from NASA.

Penny Buhr Johnson's new CD, Vision, has finished production and has been delivered for replication. Congratulations on a wonderful project, Penny! You can listen to two tracks from her new disk on the BajaSound Clients page.

BajaSound adds a Fender Deluxe P-Bass Special 4 string to its studio bass line up. We auditioned this baby for a week before purchasing and it lives up to its reputation of slim and fast with LOTS of tonal variety from the P/J combination pickup array. From dub to poppin funk to old school rock and roll and more, you can dial in a wide range of authentic Fender sounds. We also have a Ibanez 5 string fretless and a Cort 4 string Curbow Funk bass.

BajaSound adds 4 more Universal Audio plug-ins to its VST processing base.

The Roland RE-201 Space Echo
In 1973, Roland created the Space Echo system that utilized multiple play heads to create warm, highly adjustable echo effects, which added wonderful tape character and chaos to performances and recordings. The Space Echo can be heard on numerous recordings, from 70’s space rock like Pink Floyd and David Bowie, to countless Reggae and Dub albums, to more recent bands like Portishead and Radiohead.

The Precision Multiband
The Precision Multiband is a specialized mastering tool that provides five spectral bands of dynamic range control. Compression, Expansion or Gate can be chosen separately for each of the five bands.

The Precision Enhancer kHz
The Precision Enhancer kHz is a sophisticated tool designed to bring dull or poorly recorded tracks to life and can also be used to minimally massage the middle and upper frequencies of a mix, or drastically alter the presence or dynamics of individual tracks or groups.

The Precision Buss Compressor
The Precision Buss Compressor is a dual-VCA-type dynamic processor that yields modern, transparent gain reduction characteristics. It is specifically designed to “glue” mix elements together for that cohesive and polished sound typical of master section console compressors.

BajaSound completes a Studio Upgrade, a project which we code named Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy.

MEATY!
BajaSound acquires TC Electronics Finalizer 96K Studio Mastering Processor. Add some meat to your mastered mix!

BEATY!
We have upgraded to Groove Agent 3 and to BFD 2 including the BFD Funk and Jazz expansion module. Now we have more beats than ever!

BIG!
We now have all five S.A.G.E. expansion packs for Stylus RMX and an additional Terabyte of storage. That's big!

and BOUNCY!
We have installed TC Electronics PowerCore Express with 4 processors and 18 new Plug-Ins AND Universal Audio's UAD-1 DSP processor with 24 new Plug-Ins. Bouncy? - hmmm, well, 3 outta four aint bad! OK, what we did was 'bounce' or off-load VST processing from the main CPU to 5 new dedicated Plug-In CPUs.

Los Mannys, formerly Los Mannyson, return to BajaSound to record a new project of original songs.

BajaSound purchases Sony's Vegas Pro 8 High Definition Video editing suite and DVD Architect Pro 5 with Dual Layer and Blu-ray Disk Authoring tools. We now support DV, AVCHD, HDV, SD/HD-SDI and all XDCAM video formats.

CapaciArte was a great success and the stage show presented by the participants at the end of the 4 day workshop was amazing. BajaSound has offered to help produce a CD of these gifted young artists.

BajaSound has been invited, by CICYDH, to present a music production workshop at CapaciArte, June 19 to 22 at the Instituto Sudcaliforniano de la Juventud. Also attending are Producer Francisco Robles, Singer Paulo Piña and Latin Idol Finalist Samantha Rae. The workshop is offered to youth 16 - 19 with interest in singing, music, dance and art.

BajaSound Artist Penny Buhr Johnson has just won the "Silver Heart Award for best new Female Artist of the Year" at the Country Gospel Ministy Association (CGMA) Convention in Saskatoon. She is now invited, as a Canadian representative, to the Missouri CGMA Convention this October, 2008. Way to go Penny!