We can help you determine your project's track and equipment requirements by offering a free studio consultation, either in studio, by phone, by e-mail, or by "chat".  These consultations are free of charge!

We offer a full range of audio recording services tylored to your projects needs and requirments from simple single track demo CD's to full DVD's with videos!cost effective and professional audio recording that fits your budget.

If you are recording one person or a small group you may not need full "store front" recording studio services; perhaps just a single solo studio area for building songs or other audio track-by-track will do.  Our smaller solo studio areas offer many advantages over other larger studios, which also make them easier, faster and more affordable for new artists who may just be looking to record demos or songwriting projects.  

Smaller studio systems can provide your project with many of the same services and effects as the larger studios, such as control of pitch or changing the speed of the recording for high sample rates we can provide more hard drive space for the sounds being recorded, and so provide higher quality 5.1 digital sound if required. As always our "individual" one on one consultations  helping you get the help you need to understand all the "Magic" behind our studio artistry.

Effects - many digital and hardware effects are possible, As an example being able to have a song recorded with an instrument track in reverse, this is  easily achieved with digital software and hardware or, if you prefer as an artistic choice, our analog tape machines.  We understand that some of our artists prefer analog tape machines over digital recorders simply because they use tape, which allows us to get a hotter signal and greater frequency response than, some claim we get with a digital hard drive recording machine.  We support as your choice most tape and digital audio video recording projects. What ever makes it right for you and, or your group is OK with us!

When selecting tape for your project, we want the best sound quality we can possibly achieve, Westwind Multimedia exclusively use quality "high bias" cassette and reel tape media.  the reason?  Have you ever noticed how some sound quality is lost when listening back to audio that has been "bounced" or "ping-ponged" from one track to another on taped media? Well every time a track is re-recorded in this way sometimes even with high bias media, a little audio quality and definition is lost !to help solve this problem we not only use good quality media but we have been known to use a simple digital VCR to ping-pong our analog tracks in order to reduce or eliminate the this loss of sound quality.  The "bounced" tracks you want to keep can be mixed and sent to the inputs on the VCR, which will digitally record them to the VHS tape.  The tracks are then transferred back to the sound recorder on a single or stereo track. With the proper sittings and input volum the sound quality result is "almost" as good as the original analog taped recordings were! a neat trick for home studio use too! try it yourself sometime.

One of the most important things to know about analog tape recording compared to digital recording media is that we want to "saturate" the tape media with sound as much as possible to give the recorded tracks their best possible sound quality.  That's why analog tape recording equipment typically has meters that display a red zone showing the peak end.  When recording, we want those meter needles as near or just into the red zone as possible, without pinning at the top (called red zone headroom).  In other words, you want to be as close to distortion level as possible, without actually getting distortion.  If you run it too safe (by keeping it completely below the red zone), you'll avoid distortion but your recording won't sound as rich as it could!

 For example, let's say we've recorded your rhythm guitar and bass tracks, and now you want to add a steel drum track but discover that the steel drum is out of tune (as they often are).  Well with digital recording, that is no longer a problem.  Using the right software of course, the speed of the previously recorded tracks can be increased or decreased until the pitch of the recorded music matches the pitch of the out-of-tune steel drums.  After the steel drums track is recorded, the entire new recorded track can then be returned to its original track speed and so now everything is tune with everything else, digital magic at it's best! The same can be done with other instruments, or even those out of tune back up vocals!

Since most digital recording equipment allow for different sample rates, they can be adapted for either optimum sound quality which uses more hard drive space, or lower sound quality which uses less hard drive space and therefore leaves more room for recorded tracks.  This flexibility makes digital recording great for recording single songs at maximum quality.  With digital recording you can also record long studio sessions without interruption simply by lowering the sample rate and recording on two tracks continuously if needed.

Some other advantages of digital recording is that "punch-ins" are virtually silent on a recorded track, whereas with analog recording, any "punch-ins" can be heard on the tape. also with digital recording equipment each button on a digital mixing board can call up several menus, which gives many, many control choices, as opposed to an analog mixing board with dozens and dozens of knobs and buttons, each performing only one function, and rooms full of connect resources that now fit in a very small package and studio footprint!

Another advantage of digital recording is that by using "MIDI" hardware and software, most digital recorders and mixers can also be used for such things as setting up a "tap tempo" for sequencing, or simultaneously run as lighting, or to switch effects on most digital mixers or other equipment such as drum machines.

Another advantage of digital recording is that it can be backed up to zip disks or other similar digital storage media like CD's, DVD's, SD cards, etc., rather than just an internal computer hard drive.  Storing your digital recordings is easier and more convenient than storing analog tape.  Digital recordings can be stored for longer periods of time and does not degrade the way magnetic tape will.  Analog tapes dose not like temperature extremes or high humidity and will get brittle and unplayable after just a few years. 

Digital storage media also makes it relatively easy for collaborating with others outside of the studio.  Suppose you and a musician in England want to collaborate but can't get together in our studios. Simply mail the digital media back and forth (or email the recorded tracks in any of various formats) without worry of magnetic fields wiping out your "master tape" while it's in snale mail transit.  You and your friend don't even have be in the same studio to make recordings together.  That option alone can open up other options you may not even be aware of? we can help you understand those "other" choices much better.