Gravity Mastering

In October Doug’s good friend (as well as the evil geneous behind the curtain at CRC) Chris Shepard brought in a very unique and special project that he recorded with the help of his remote recording company American Moble.  The Angel Band Project, is a musical collaboration paying homage to the tragic murder of Teresa Butz.  In an inspiring effort, three generations of the musically talented Butz family (including Teresa’s brother Norbert Leo Butz, 2005 winner of the Tony Award for best male vocalist) banded together with the Broadway Inspirational Voices Gospel Choir for this heartwarming creation.  The year long project, which was funded entirely through donations, contains a mix of originals and covers which were recorded live in Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and Seattle, then mixed back in Chicago by Chris Sheppard and mastered by Doug McBride at Gravity Mastering.  Pretty spine tingling album.  Doug commented, “it’s soul music… raw, beautiful, horrible, inspired soul music.”  All of the proceeds from the album will go to the Voices & Faces Project, a charity fighting to end sexual violence.

www.angelbandproject.org

www.voicesandfaces.org

Exciting news! Lee DeWyze’s Slumberland just debuted at #32 on the Billboard Heatseeker list!

Edit: We just got word that Slumberland also hit #68 on ITunes albums charts!

Not only that, but MTV news stopped by the studio to talk with Ryan McGuire, Louis Svitek, and Gravity’s Doug McBride and Lee and his recently released new song “Princess (Reprise)”

Article below the break..

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1639378/20100517/story.jhtml

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Back in December, Doug mastered an album for a young, up and coming artist by the name of Lee DeWyze. Skip forward a couple months and low and behold, Lee is in the top ten finalists on American Idol this season. Everyone here at Gravity wishes him the best on the show and hopes he takes it all the way! You can see Lee on American Idol on Fox Tuesdays at 7:00 and Wednesdays at 8:00.

Lee DeWyze – American Idol page

Pick up Lee’s new album from WuLi Records

It’s been a minute since we’ve made an update. We’ve been slammed over at Gravity as of late. Doug has been cranking it out with the mastering. Recent artists include Louise Kelly, Humboldt Lagoon, Model Stranger, Perth Elliot, and Verbow – and that’s just in the last two weeks!

Things are busy here and time slots fill up fast, so book your mastering session in advance.

We are offering a free* test master to all new clients.

The free test master is for use in comparing our work against the work of other mastering engineers. We will return to you a mastered song cut to :45-1:30 long for you to use in your comparison. If you choose to use us, which we hope you will, the initial song mastered will be used and billed to your final invoice.