This is a great studio for all the right reasons. First of all, Rob Bartleson, the guy who runs the studio, knows what he is doing. Rob has 20 years of experience in the business, and handles it with professionalism and knowledge. Second, the equipment is excellent. Great microphones, great mixers, and so…
To start, everything that Jason Driver (JD) has done for our band and now even projects within our collective of friends/musicians, is just phenomenal. To be blunt, we went in with a DIY/Indie as all hell budget, but we feel confident enough with our production to pursue much bigger goals. If you need to make…
I played piano as a child… and 35 years later I decided I wanted to play once again. I wasn’t sure what to expect from a piano teacher, but when I found Jeremy’s Craigslist ad, I was immediately impressed with his resume and professional online presence. I figured someone with that much talent *must* be out of…
A terrific recording experience: comfortable, friendly and extremely effective at getting great sounds and performances. The room sounds great, the equipment is all top-notch, and setup was efficient and well-planned. Josh Powell was a calm, patient and thoughtful engineer and kept us feeling relaxed even as…
I first met Kyle through a colleague, Champagne Duane, when he was engineering his album. After a disastrous experience with another producer I met up with Kyle to start hashing out the details of my debut EP. I’ll be the first to own the fact that I am a bit of a high maintenance client and Kyle has dealt with…
Our band 99W Band recently recorded at Opal Studios. I am very impressed with Kevin the owner. His abilities as a engineer is by far one of the best PDX has to offer.The Studio is extremely clean and well organized, state of the art equipment, and his talent allowed us to get in set up record four tracks for…
Ryan Foster is a master at his craft… the master of mastering. I have a recording studio and do in-house mastering for most projects, but if the band or artist has a budget for a professional mastering engineer, I will always go to Ryan for his fine-tuned ears.
