The Studio

The studio itself consist of a small control room (approximately 15' x 11'), with a small (5' x 7'), well isolated vocal booth. The control room hardware is all loaded into a custom "shell" that houses everything, including audio and video monitors, except for a few vintage synths along the back wall.

Three Mackie 1604s handle the signal routing for a substantial array of keyboards. In addition, Dave has a fully loaded Digidesign Pro Tools System set up for multimedia work, a Quadra 650 with all kinds of software for sequencing, sampling, music notation, etc., a Tascam DA-88 for live tracks, and your standard array of DAT 'n cassette decks for mixdown. Signal processing exists in both analog hard and digital hard and soft versions. Audio monitoring is done via an array of speakers: JBL 4412's, Tannoy System 8s, Yamaha NS 10s and Auratones, in addition to a bunch of headphones. It may not be big, but it's very complete and thoughtfully laid out for ergonomic ease. As a result, Dave can single-handedly knock out fairly major production jobs quickly and easily.

Further, it looks cool and has a great view! All this impresses clients and speaks to a considerable seriousness of purpose. Yes, Virginia, it really does help if the paying customer doesn't have to pick his or her way through the undies and old pizza boxes lying on the floor and sit on the edge of the bed to listen to your latest mix!

Goals

Dave's goals for SkyRoom are essentially private. He composes, performs and records music and soundtracks and does a fair amount of sound design work on the side. Occasionally, he brings in outside people, shares the studio with a select group of MIDI associates, and on rare occasions he books the studio to outside clients.

He is at home with a broad range of clients, and has an easy and diverse command of musical styles.

He also has a sense of mission, growing out of his religious convictions. This leads him into a broad array of developmental projects, working with church kids, developing talent and undertaking non-profit sorts of things as a fundamental and central part of his life work. From what Dave has told me, he does a lot of work in SkyRoom to support his religious convictions, moral precepts and sense of Christian mission.