Weights and Measures Soundlab

Little attention to detail and poor quality work. Recording had a «buzz» in the room, until it was realized that a snare drum had been left in the studio during the recording — I kid you not. The piano was terribly out of tune. Duane is difficult, at best to get in touch with — doesn’t return texts, emails or phone calls easily, stating he is really tied up. I could go on. Not sure how he is staying in business, but he certainly won’t have ours again.

The local studio choice for The Latenight Callers.
Yes, this is an official endorsement. Months ago, when my band, The Latenight Callers, released a home-​recorded EP of songs, we first went to Duane at Weights & Measures to do the Mastering for that release. After witnessing the care and detail he went through to ensure the highest sonic quality for our project, we knew we had a great opportunity in line to work with him for a full on recording project.
Duane was open for discussion with us during the months of planning we spent before actually going into the studio to do the actual recording. The ability to work with him to best prepare ourselves as a band proved invaluable; we were able to confer with him on everything from the vintage microphones and outboard gear he employs to actually record with, to the more abstract and «arty» notions of what the band was looking for in overall production, mood, and process.
Through all of our pre-​production work, we were able to walk into the studio with confidence that we were going to be able to capture precisely what we set out for, and that Duane had the skills and sensitivity to help accomplish this.
Once we started recording, Duane’s professionalism, skills, ears, and stamina will available to us until we exhausted ourselves, keeping up with our myriad peculiarities and matching us with his own inspiration towards our project. After two full weekends utilizing everything his studio has to offer, the confidence we have in our recorded output is, without question, absolutely better than we could have even imagined.
If you have a recording project you need worked up, whether as a full band or an individual musician, I cannot recommend Duane and Weights & Measures highly enough. Of course, the proof will be evident (from my standpoint, at least), when The Latenight Callers are able to release the results of this, here in the Spring.