Welcome to the Upper West Side: Theberge Music Works Opens Advanced New Tracking, Mixing Room
GRAMMY-nominated artist and LP Music endorser, Chris Theberge (Groove Collective) has brought a welcome addition to the New York City landscape, opening the studio component of Theberge Music Works (TMW) Inc. on the Upper West Side.
Theberge Music Works
The boutique tracking/mixing facility is situated in the former Foothill Digital space, which was previously the professional home of the award-winning and highly innovative mastering engineer Allan Tucker. The completely redesigned space, located within a 1916 Beaux-Arts building, was penned by engineer/consultant Christos Tsantillis (50 Cent, Patti LaBelle, The Roots, Diddy) and built by Michigan-based custom studio builder Ken Capton (Eminem, Kid Rock).
“The new facility is consistent with our aim of providing the highest caliber music, production and facilities while tapping into the world’s cultural metropolis that is New York City,” Theberge said. “Music Works studios is poised to address the needs of today’s producers and engineers.
“Faced with new recording industry realities, many established professionals work out of personal studios and are in need an intimate yet top-tier facility to bring clients, without the distractions and burdens of the larger commercial studios.”
Equipped with an Avid Protools HD3 system, Music Works Studios is completely remotely controllable and turn-key, allowing for operation of the entire facility by the client without the need of staffing and related overhead.
Theberge made sure that the distinctive look and feel of TMW would stand out aesthetically as well as technically. “I wanted it to look like an artistic futuristic spaceship – but have some warmth to it as well,” he explains. “My initial target is the pro-level engineer/ producer who worked on major label projects and is now transitioning to more independent work. These folks are used to the well appointed larger rooms, but now find themselves working more in-the-box, so I want them to have the feel a top-end larger facility, but scaled down to a small digital boutique studio with that same quality feel – so every detail had to be perfect.
“To that end, the various design elements, logos and color schemes were built into everything from the legs on the custom-welded control desk, to the custom diffusers to the headphone and microphone stands – even the monogrammed towels in the bathroom!”
TMW has been a music production company and provider of music for special events for over 10 years, working with a wide range of musical and corporate clients that include Discovery Networks, Harvard University, Lifetime Television and Archon Media Asia. The company maintains offices in New York and New Jersey and continues to produce music for special events, sound design for online games, and music production for domestic and international clients.