G&E Music co-founders and composers Glenn Schloss and Erik
Blicker have managed to increase volume of work coming out of their
NYC music shop, without moving up a weight class. A renovation last
year added a dedicated mix studio to the facility, and even with an
upswing in G&E's mixing division, the music house has retained
its casual small shop vibe. So, for clients seeking their undivided
attention, G&E remains a small music house, but the facility
now boasts the tools and talent for multiple projects.
Competing in a market in which most every player can meet the
necessary level of equipment and technical expertise, Blicker believes
that ultimately clients want quality, and sometimes consistency is
easier to establish when working with a smaller outfit. "People
know who they're dealing with at a small shop--they know who's writing
the music, recording and mixing it, and if they're return clients,
they know the track records of each person involved," he notes. "You
know what to expect from a small shop--you get that real attention
to detail, the full concentration of the composers and sound designers.
At G&E, that's what you get, plus we can totally mix the project
for you as well."
A
Pro Tools HD|2 rig sits at the center of Studio A's mix environment,
outfitted for 5.1 surround mixing with an NHT Pro surround monitoring
system and Audient ASP 510 surround sound controller. Usually at
the controls is G&E's mix engineer Brian Quill, who most recently
finished mixes for MTV Home Video--DVDs of "Pimp My Ride" Season
One and "Viva La Bam" Seasons Two and Three--and
Nickelodeon's "Avatar" promo
campaign. Studio B is relegated typically to Schloss and Blicker
for all their songwriting and sound designing. In the last year,
they've
scored commercial spots, provided original music for Discovery
networks, ESPN, Nickelodeon, PBS and History channel, and scored
corporate
presentations, including a recent 15-minute documentary for Mutual
Life Insurance.
When they isolated the studios from each other last year, and built
in an isolated recording booth, Schloss and Blicker envisioned the
facility cranking out double the work and attracting both mix-specific
clients and mixing work for existing clients. The renovations transformed
G&E from a small music house to a small two-room, but full-service
audio post house.
"The
reaction so far has been really good, as we continue to refine and define who
we are in the world of huge corporate post production
facilities and the really small one-man shop," shares Schloss. "We're
well known for composing, but our mixing segment is really getting
established with some great projects coming in. We're running on
all systems--Composing, Mixing and Sound Designing full on. It's
an exciting
time for us."
While
Quill has been handling the growing number of mixing projects in
Studio A, Schloss and Blicker recently scored an Oil of Olay spot
for Saatchi & Saatchi, and are in the midst of writing and recording
ten original rock tracks for ESPN's "SportsCenter",
for use in the upcoming baseball season highlights programming.
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