Category Archives: Project

The Electric Boa – Drums

WombatStudio200The Electric Boa

OCTOBER 2013
The Electric Boa
Drum Tracking

 

Tracked Jim Drnec on drums for a forthcoming Electric Boa CD.

Drnec1Input List:

  1. SubKick (Homemade)
  2. Kick (Shure Beta52)
  3. Snare Top (Shure SM57)
  4. Snare Bottom (Shure SM57)
  5. Tom1 (Sennheiser E604)
  6. Tom2 (Sennheiser 421)
  7. Tom3 (Sennheiser 421)
  8. Tom4 (Sennheiser 421)
  9. Hat (Shure SM81)
  10. Left Overhead (MXL 2001)
  11. Right Overhead (MXL 2001)
  12. Ride (MXL 603)
  13. Room (dbx RTA)

Ever/After – A Beautiful Lie

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October 2012 – JULY 2013
Ever/After
Full-length Original CD “A Beautiful Lie

1. Breakin’ Me
2. Starin’ At The Gun
3. Can’t Stop Love
4. Wait ‘Til Tomorrow
5. No More Promises
6. Evangeline
7. Best Of Me
8. Cry
9. Stop/Go

WombatStudio.Org worked with Ever/After to engineer, mix and master their full-length CD. Ever/After is a recording project comprised of guitarist Reggie Wu (Heavens Edge) and drummer Jim Drnec (Dead End Kids, Cinderella, Network). Also, David “Wombat” Pierron received producer credit along with Reggie Wu and Jim Drnec. Additionally features Buddy Cash (Hyde Your Daughters) on bass and Colorado vocalist Chris Thomas (Omniism).

Alexa Raquel

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October 2012
Alexa Raquel Originals

Singer Alexa Raquel can be seen most often rocking with her local tri-state area band “Wild Child.” She performs with other bands from time to time and has an upscale band to play corporate events, weddings and private affairs. Incredibly versatile she belts out metal to Mariah. Alexa has a back catalog of millions of original songs and we’ve started committing them to recordings one at a time. Excited to share samples as soon as possible!

Kevin Burk

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October 16, 2012
Kevin Burk Covers

Local singer Kevin Burk laying down some cover tunes for posterity. Kevin is front-man extraordinaire for “Patchwork” who play a lot of Chicago tunes and have had Chicago’s original drummer Danny Seraphine sit in numerous times. Kevin also joins singer Danny Beissel in an Elvis tribute and is joined here in the studio singing a Beatles tune together.

Vince Barilli

WombatStudio200Vince Barilli
October 2012
Vince Cover

Vince is recording a cover of Alter Bridge’s “In Loving Memory Of” for his brother. This was a collaboration with Brian Bortnick on guitar, Bob Pirylis, Jr. on drums and me on guitar, bass and engineering/mixing/mastering duties.

Patchwork w/Danny Seraphine

WombatStudio200Patchwork w/Danny Seraphine

April 29, 2012 (Still Mixing)
Patchwork Live at the Loft with Chicago drummer Danny Seraphine

Recorded live at The Loft at Limerick

1. Does Anybody Know What Time It Is?
2. Lowdown
3. Free
4. Beginnings
5. In the Country
6. Introduction
7. Fancy Colours
8. More Than You’ll Ever Know
9. Saturday in the Park
10. Questions 67 & 68
11. Poem for the People
12. Dialogue
13. The Ballet
14. 25 or 6 to 4
15. I’m A Man

Audio Sample: In the Country

Jaco Pastorius Tribute

WombatStudio200Jaco Pastorius Tribute
April 15, 2012
Jaco Pastorius Tribute

The Jaco Pastorius Tribute Sunday, April 15th, 2012 at The Bridgeport Ribhouse; Gerald Veasley: bass, Ishmael Wilburn: drums, Pablo Batista: percussion, Joe Mass: guitar, E.J. Yellen: sax and EWI, Jeff ‘Blondy’ Von Stenz: trumpet, James Witherite: keyboards

1. Three Views of a Secret
2. Barbary Coast
3. Havona
4. A Remark You Made
5. Liberty City
6. The Chicken
7. Birdland

Recorded live and later mixed in Pro Tools for video syncing. Here is that video:

Hint: Skip to 6:30 for the music.