Welcome to Echoes Recording Studio

We are a professional recording facility located 10 miles south of Hagerstown, MD (one hour from Baltimore, MD and Washington D.C.). We are conveniently located near Interstate access yet are situated in a very secluded rustic setting. No Neighbors and lots of trees! Our studio is housed in a 1855, 2 story farmhouse with over 3000 square feet of recording areas. We offer a very spacious control room, drum room, 2 studio rooms, along with options for more rooms available for separation/isolation purposes if needed. All Rooms are acoustically treated. Musicians can play together or isolated but still be in eye contact.

We conduct our studio on a professional level but pride ourselves for being very laid back and easy to work with. Creating a very comfortable and laid back environment we feel is very important to the recording process. Echoes Recording Studio is a studio designed and operated by musicians for musicians We have adopted a hands on approach to the recording project for each and every client. We do not do 'Cookie Cutter' or Assembly line type recordings. We take the approach that each project is unique and creative. We encourage as much participation into the recording process as each clients wishes.

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Decemeber 28, 2007

One Day Intensive Recording Class at Echoes

-Echoes Recording Studios, located in Sharpsburg Maryland (Antietam Battlefield) Is offering a one day intensive 8 hour recording class. Saturday Feb 23rd 10AM to 7 PM (one hour dinner break).Come to a state of the art facility and learn how to record a song from start to finish.This will be a full band project with drums, bass, guitars and vocals with a finished master at the end of the day. The following things will be covered in detail.Studio preperation and setup

Microphone techniques (for drums. bass, guitars, vocals)

Gain Staging

Compression, EQ's and Gates

Tracking on large format mixing consoles as well as outboard pres

Differences between recording on digital and analog formats

Overdubs and punch ins

Preparing a track for mixing (cleanup, editing, etc..)

Creative use of effects during mixing

Automation hands on

Making the perfect mix

Mastering the song to CD

Also topics will be covered such as recording schools, careers in the music industry, starting a studio, becoming a freelance engineer.This is NOT a seminar. There will be extensive hands on training session.Todd Matthew Stotler has 20 years expierence in the recording industry and has ran Echoes Recording studio for the past 15 years. Our studio has been nominated for and has won several awards. Many of our finished projects are on XM and Sirrus radio. We primarly function as a indepdent studio but occasionally do major label projects.The studios website is at ww.echoesrecordingstudio.com and Myspace.com/echoesrecordingstudioPrice for the class is $200.00 50% Non Refundable due 30 for registration. Class size is limited to 15 People.For more info or to Sign up contact Todd at 301-432-0358 or echoesrecordingstudio@hotmail.com

December, 10,2007

2" 24 Track Reel to Reel installed

We have just purchased a Otari 24 Track 2" Tape deck for use primarly in tracking basic tracks and then immediatly transfering over to digital on certain projects. The sound of rock drums on analog tape is defintly something to behold and the Otari is defintly a workhorse of the industry with thousands of hit records recorded on them.. We are going to eventually get a 16 Track and 8 Track head as well for use on the machine. One nice thing about the Otaris is the headstacks changed out very easily. I will have pictures and sound samples up shortly.

Novemeber 8, 2007

Finished 2 custom built 1176 Compressors for the studio. They sound very sweet, especially on drums.

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

We finally got our MCI J636 large format mixing console installed and fully functioning. The console original was commissioned for Battery Studios Chicago in 1983. Original price was $150,000!!! After spending 10 years there it was transferred to a small studio in Manhattan, New York. Just at Battery alone this console had a impressive list of clients to record on it.

We purchased the console last October and have spent the last couple months restoring it. I have done much recapping, rechipping, modifications, upgrades, etc. etc.

The console sounds truly amazing and has been well worth the time and money put into it. I have always wanted a MCI , primarily due to the fact that one of my favorite producer/engineers Tom Dowd used them extensively.

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