About us
I spent nearly a decade in Los Angeles as a 20 something wanna be engineer. I had dreams of being the next Quincy Jones. It did not work out the way I had thought, the music business was cool but "The Business of Music" is nasty and I burnt out. I was out of music by 1993 (Thankfully because Alternative is atrocious)
Fast Forward Nov 25th 2018. I had spent a full year discussing with a colleage about starting an Internet radio station. We could never get on the same page and I had bought the beginnings of the equiptment to start the radio station so Thanksgiving 2018 I got tired of waiting and AP Radio went live.
I had been out of music for decades and I was learning about Reverb and Sweetwater and a local music shop run by the bass player for Survivor. One evening on Reverb I searched Tascam MSR-16 and I was blown away that I found several still in use.
That my friends is how AP Radio & Recording started. 30 plus years post studio career here I was trying to remember how to record and build a studio. The knowledge is still in the old noggin though (I emphasize OLD).
7 years has come and gone and the studio has transformed 3 times to where it is now. I have curated vintage gear that I either worked on in the 80"s or was very familiar with all with the goal of recapturing a lost art and sound. Analog breathes where digital does not.
Everything here at AP Radio & Recording is done the vintage way where the music breathes and is full bodied. If you haven't tried recording on tape I can't recommend it enough. Conatct me and I'll book you studio time at no cost to you I am that passionate about analog. For me the only way to create music and that's Analog.
In November 2025 we changed the studio name to REEL SOUND RECORDING. The radio station was closed due to lack of time. I discovered recording podcasts isn't for me. I find the making of them tedious. Lastly, I think REEL SOUND RECORDING better reflects who we are and what we do here with this studio.
