Big Band Recording

Keeping your students engaged and excited can be a challenge at times. Bringing your jazz band into the studio to do an actual professional recording is not only a unique experience that will be new to most or all of the students but will also be a different and challenging type of learning tool, expose them to another facet of the music industry, and give kids and parents a memento of their time in the band.

Big band jazz recording is a challenge that requires a studio equipped with enough space, the proper gear and also an engineer with the expertise and knowledge of the genre to get it done right. At Crystal Clear, we have all of that. With our large tracking room, we can accommodate a standard size big band of 13-15 horn players and full rhythm section, all recorded live with multiple headphone mix options available for all the musicians. Chief engineer Kent Stump, in addition to years of experience recording big bands, also played in big bands during his time at UNT and brings that experience as a musician to his engineering.

This recording package is designed to give you a session length that allows necessary time to get some good tracks recorded without being too fatiguing for the students, and also gives you a simple budget proprosal for funding the project. Longer sessions can also be booked. Just contact us for pricing. Mixing and mastering will be done on a different day from the actual session.

Among the list of bands we’ve recorded over the years are the One and Two O’Clock Lab Bands from UNT, The Bi-Coastal Collective, Strata Big Band, Metroplexity Big Band, C3 Big Band, bands from UTD, UTA, SHSU as well as number of area high school bands.