Creative Caffeine: Nashville Recording Studio

Couldn’t resist snapping this pic a week or so ago of our very yellow tree.  Snapped it just in time, most of the leaves have fallen by now.  Our driveway is very colorful!

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Our good friend Dave Shipley(Foxwood Mastering), brought us about 12 more John Hartford 2″ tapes today for transfer into pro tools.  These are more tapes from the Aereoplane sessions as well as some later 80s sessions.  I am blown away by the sheer quantity of all of these recordings… “just keep the tape rolling”  was definitely the idea.

above: “Recording The Price of Peace”

“For a girl to say goodbye to her daddy’s smile is rough — can’t cover it up.”That’s one of the lines in a song written by 12-year-old Alyssa Gaddis of Springfield after hearing her father talk about deployment ceremonies for National Guard troops being sent overseas to Iraq and Afghanistan.Alyssa’s father, Chief Warrant Officer Jim Gaddis, isn’t being deployed, but after hearing the stories and witnessing a ceremony firsthand, the Springfield Christian School seventh-grader sat down and composed the lyrics to “The Price of Peace,” a song about a girl saying goodbye to her father as he prepares for war.

“It’s very sad, seeing the little girls clutch to their dad’s neck and cry,” Alyssa said Monday of the deployment event she witnessed. “That was hard to just watch, knowing that they are leaving and they are not going to come back for a long time.”

Full Article:

Young songwriter honors ‘price of peace’ – Springfield, IL – The State Journal-Register

We recently had The Gaddis Girls in the Studio with producer Hart Steen to record overdubs for the song “The Price of Peace,” a moving tribute to soldiers at war, from a daughters perspective.

(the following from ThePriceOfPeace.org)

The “Price of Peace” was written in early summer of 2008 by Alyssa Gaddis after a discussion she had with her father, CW5 Jim Gaddis. The discussion revolved around the large number of Soldiers that were deployed overseas while their families were left behind. Alyssa realized that it was probably as hard on the families as it was on the deployed Soldiers. Her dad gave her a pad of paper and told her to write down how she felt and the lyrics of The Price of Peace were born.

The family knew that the lyrics had merit so they enlisted the co-writing assistance of a Nashville writer, Hart Steen. Hart added the music and recorded a basic track to the lyrics. After a few discussions with some members of the IL Employee Support of the Guard and Reserves about the song, State Farm agreed to sponsor the recording. State Farm provided funding for the recording and production of the song.

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We were please to have Taylor Swift in the studio this week.  Taylor is wonderful to work with in the studio and is very easy-going and focused.

Look for Taylor’s new album “Fearless” which will make it’s debut on Nov. 11.  For more info on Taylor visit her website at TaylorSwift.com.

Engineer Collin Peterson with Taylor

Creative Caffeine’s Telefunken U47… The U47 is perhaps the most legendary microphone in history.  Ours is completely original, pre-war tube and all… Sounds fantastic!!!

The 2 turtles that live in Brown’s Creek behind the Creative Caffeine Studio.
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July has been a busy month for transferring old recordings to Pro Tools.  The sooner the better with these old tapes… if you wait too long they have to be baked due to excessive oxide shedding.  Creative Caffeine is one of the few studios setup to transfer 24 track analog tapes straight into Pro Tools HD with pristine Apogee converters.

Early this month John Mills transferred a number of 24 track tapes to Pro Tools for the highly respected John Anderson.  Chief engineer Collin Peterson has been working with Dave Shipley to transfer recordings for the Del McCoury Band, some of which may be featured on an upcoming release,  as well has some early recordings from John Hartford,  some of which featuring the Aereoplane band with Tut Taylor, Norman Blake, and Randy Scruggs!  Most of the McCoury tapes were 16 track 2″ recorded at Ricky Skaggs’ studio in Hendersonville. We were able to rent a 16 track head for our JH-24 and make that option available to clients at an extra charge.