Spent a few days this month recording and mixing songwriter and troubadour JL Stiles.??JL is quite a force of nature and has a really great sense of songwriting, arrangement and sound. Last week, we recorded and mixed 2 songs in the big room at Broken Radio over the course of 12 hours. We tracked drums, guitar and upright bass live with no headphones or overdubs (other than lead vocals). The live room at the studio sounded perfect for Stiles’ approach: very focused on the performance and the sound of the room as it went down.
Today, we mixed a few other songs that he tracked earlier in the year before he took a long jaunt to Nepal. The songs are reminiscent of Tom Waits (who tracked in the room at Broken Radio a few years ago) or Jimmy Reed. JL Stiles is a very unique character and a talented artist.