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Welcome to the home page of Lawless Vintage Keyboard overdub studio. The studio is designed to provide great sounds either in person or over the internet. I have worked in the music industry as a keyboard player, keyboard programmer and sound designer for some of the biggest names in the music business. It is also the home of Rackley / Lawless Original Music Composition and Scoring, unique music for TV, film and radio, and some of the finest production library music available. The studio was built specifically for the needs of this writing team, but it is also enlisted for any full music production project. A remote 32 track digital multitrack setup makes "on location" recording a snap with full integration to the studio for overdubs and mixdown. The studio and equipment lend itself to keyboard sessions either inhouse, remote, or "live" via internet. The background of the artists make it a comfortable spot for most serious projects. Some recent pictures follow. Take a look at my equipment list below. If you were pointed here from the Rackley / Lawless site you may return here.  Front view of the studio with patio.  The inside steps up in three levels, in approximately 20 inch steps. This shot looks at the main working level.  The main desk, where I work in Digital Performer and ProTools. Homemade desk, as are most racks. Glass block windows to the left. Skylights above. very comfy.  To the right of the desk. A vintage MiniMoog, Yamaha CP80M, Hohner D6 clavinet, Yamaha TR30 electronic organ, TR909 drum machine, Oxygen 8 USB keyboard, guitar effects rack, Rhodes electric piano, Wurlitzer electric piano & Ashdown bass amp.  To the left of the desk. Hammond B3, Roland Jupiter 8, Sequential Prophet V, Juno 106. Monitor distribution, mic pres, dynamics control & outboard effects rack.  This is roughly a 5' x 7' isolation booth. Wired for 8 lines to the desk, 8 lines to the loft above, 2 Monster speaker connections and a 6 pin Leslie cable connection. Note the vintage Leslie 122RV just outside the booth. Further construction will add a small isolated amp room to the left.  The second level hosts the kitchen area and a lounging area. Listen to music, watch a movie, relax. This is where I practice my saxophones.  The kitchen and fireplace. Everyone that knows me knows that I always have coffee on.  I have put together a 10 space remote recording rack with 16 channels of Radial© Engineering 8OX microphone splitters connected to two Akai DR16 hard disk recorders. I can send the direct out on to a PA system (like normal) and use either a ground lifted direct out or a buffered out (the one I use almost exclusively) to the recorders. The inline splitters are invisible in the path to the PA. I can direct the buffered output to another outboard rack with mic pres and compression if necessary and from there back to the recorders. Whenever possible I neglect to tell the band that we are recording until after the fact. It keeps them from getting nervous or overplaying. I can bring the recorders home and transfer the entire gig to the computer to edit and mix down. I usually put a video camera on a tripod and then slide the mixed down audio to video in the Mac. Whenever possible I use a second DV camera and have someone move around and get handheld shots. Then I mix audio and video in Apple's Final Cut Express. This is the simplest recording rack I have ever had and a huge part of my studio.  The uppermost level is a small workspace for my repair and diagnostic area, as well as a traditional desk to take care of business and paperwork. CDs and my client files are here. The bookcase holds my software installation packages.  This building was codesigned and built by Jerry Stinn, of Stinn Construction. It was a tedious and difficult run, trying to get plan approval for such an unusal structure with no right angles or square walls. Much of it was fabricated by hand, due to multiple angles and pitches. Because of the expanding face, the roofline rise and the offset ridge beam, every one of these rafters had to be cut and positioned by hand. Jerry, Yvonne and their crew did an exceptional job of overbuilding and exceeding the most stringent standards to make this the project studio and EXACTLY what I envisioned.
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