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From Concert to CD in 5 days

December 25, 2016

December marks an annual tradition at Forge Recording–the Westminster Presbyterian Church Christmas concert recording.

Since 2008, Forge Recording’s staff has recorded West Chester’s Westminster Presbyterian Church Choir‘s annual “Christmas Joy” concerts on location. This year, the 120+ piece choir celebrated its 25th annual Christmas Joy season and sold out five shows for thousands of visitors.

Forge Recording’s Brendan McGeehan was there to record two of the performances. McGeehan recorded 28 tracks that lead engineer Ron DiSilvestro mixed and mastered in Forge Recording’s Studio A the following day. Within 5 days of the concert, Forge’s team produced 600 market-ready CDs in shrinkwrap for the church to share.

Westminster Presbyterian Church is one of many church choirs who have visited our studios and/or engaged us to record them on location. Learn more here about how we can help you record your organization’s live concert.

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Gospel sounds of the Robert Ladson Ensemble

November 13, 2015

Gospel artist Robert Ladson brought in his entire ensemble for a 12+ hour day of recording in Studio A. Starting with the instrumental tracks (drums, bass, Hammond B3, grand piano) which were recorded live, we then reset the room to accommodate Robert’s 20+ voice choir. We split up the live room into sections, recording the sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses in different parts of the room. We also put two of our prized Neumann U87 microphones about 20 feet up in the air. The objective was to capture the sound of each section as well as the blend of all voices. The results were excellent, and we enjoyed having everyone that day.

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