Michael has mixed 2 projects for my band the Side Chicks so far and he's really done an incredible…read morejob! A pleasure to work with and very skilled at what he does! The timeline had me a little stressed at the end but he got them done in time and the mastering engineer barely had to touch them!

So after relocating to NYC I came down to visit Crash (pre-covid) to pick up some audio files. The…read morenew facility is amazing with the control room having a perfect monitoring room. The whole construction of the studio level ups far beyond any other medium-large set up I seen and revivals if not, beats many NYC studios. It is hard for me to describe how amazing it is but let me quote their webage so I won't paraphrase anything. "The New Studio Crash is a beautiful recording studio built from the ground up to be world class in the field. With a nice large control room, a huge 840sq ft. live room with 14 ft slanted ceilings, an isolation room, a vocal booth, and two separate amp closets we have plenty of isolated spaces to get great sounds without the need to overdub everything. This makes it possible to record very large groups live and still have plenty of elbowroom and acoustic separation. Construction. Many studios may beautiful on the surface, like ours, but what's really important here is the stuff you don't see. So what is inside the walls and below the floor? Our construction entailed room-within-a-room construction. This means the walls you see are actually TWO (2) walls; each of which have two layers of " drywall and special acoustic insulation for sound absorption and a 6" air-space between them. These walls are floating on a layer of neoprene for even more sound isolation. The two pieces of glass in the 8 foot window separating the control and live rooms are each 1/2" thick, adding to the sound control. Under our new strand woven bamboo flooring, each room has its own individual "floating" concrete slab, decoupling it from the other rooms' floors. Even the HVAC was carefully planned, with every send and return having it's own insulated flex-duct all the way back to the HVAC unit. We even installed that HVAC unit in a separate building to keep it's mechanical noise far away from the studio space. The new studio's room acoustics are wonderful. Careful consideration in the design was spent on choosing room ratios as mathematically non-correlated as possible, in order to achieve evenly distributed axial, tangential, and oblique room modes. This means we get an amazingly smooth and accurate frequency response in the room ambience. This is something practically impossible to achieve without building from scratch like we did here." Mike is a PRO PRO PRO engineer. He has a new control surface going from a C24 to a D-Command as well as some focusrite preamps. He can also work on analog consoles as well as digital. The only downside is the breakroom can use some working on (unfinished floors) and parking is a bit troublesome, (I parked in the CVS lot across the way) but what can you do?!? I'd take that perfect mix over anything! See you soon again Mike!

I know the owner, Rob, personally. I considered him a friend. So, after spending 3 years planning a…read morehuge event with a lot of moving parts, we figured, hiring Rob at Front Row Seat Productions was a no-brainer. Hiring him meant that we wouldn't have to worry about the video and audio (which we would very much need for future marketing of the event as well as having a record of it). After we got the video back, we were shocked at just how pixelated, out of focus, grainy, blurry, overexposed (at times) and mostly dark everything was. Yes, the room was dark, to begin with, but one would think that someone who does this for a living would say, "Hey guys, we're going to need light in here!", "We may have to rent some lights!" He had already been at the venue at least 3 times before the day of the event! Never a light meter in hand, nothing. The event was 6 hours. Why couldn't Rob, at some point during that time, have gotten our attention to let us know what was happening? NOPE. We didn't even get a heads up as to how bad the footage looked when it was delivered to us. No "I'm sorry, this isn't my best work", "Hey, I did everything I could do". Nothing. He just waited for us to bring our displeasure to him. I explained how frustrated I was with the outcome and all I got back from him was how frustrated HE was. We even paid him upfront in FULL! No apology, no "Let me see what I can do", no offer of a refund or even a partial one. NOTHING. The biggest waste of thousand of dollars ever. I attached some screenshots of the video to this review. These were some of the BETTER ones--just to give you an idea as to how bad the rest of it is. If I had shot this on my cell phone it would've been 1000x better. I'm sure this review will receive a reply from Rob as to how this was somehow our fault or he's being misrepresented--it's just a shame because I considered him a friend. I won't make that mistake again. Never again.

From the owner: Front Row Seat Productions' studios offer a state-of-the-art recording environment designed to…read moreproduce the ultimate in true sound for every recording need, from voice or instrumental solos to small vocal and instrumental groups. Come to FRSPROD's studio, or let us bring our studio to you! Either way, your audition or demo will be recorded by an engineer who is sensitive to the performer's needs and time constraints.

I have been a student in the adult band program for a little over a year learning guitar. The…read moreprogram they use to teach and the teachers are excellent! The adult band rehearsals are a stupid amount of fun! I started out as a guy who wanted to be a "rhythm guitar" player who just wanted to play power chords and not practice scales and now I'm enthusiastic about practicing scales so I can improve my soloing. All of the teachers are very supportive (even with my terrible singing). Even 15 months later, I look forward to guitar lessons. The school has great social distancing and other practices in place to keep everyone safe during these crazy times.

From the owner: School of Rock Newtown provides both in-person and online music lessons for students of all ages…read more Our programs, camps and workshops for toddlers, kids, teens and adults make learning to play music fun and create great communities of musicians. School of Rock is the leader in performance-based music education. We combine one-on-one drum, bass, keyboard, vocal, and guitar lessons with group practices. Students learn to play music from day one and put on live performances at local venues. Our experienced instructors are local musicians themselves who combine the performance-based School of Rock Method and programs with individual music lessons to get results for your student.

I had a guitar up on Marketplace for months and no replies or people that wanted to chew me down to…read morenothing. Surprisingly Guitar Center gave me a fair price on my guitar. Plus they always have cool new guitars in stock at good prices as well.

The staff were very welcoming, great service. You can tell they love their jobs and overall, I…read morehighly recommend them for all your music and performance needs. Great management. Everyone deserves a raise.