- 08/12/2023
The Victims Mix Session
- 07/12/2023
Nat Love Student Tour
We were fortunate enough to have Nat Love and his class of young, up and coming engineers and producers come for a tour and quick lecture at...
- 07/12/2023
Murray Dilger Demo recording
Our in-house engineer Murray has been working hard on his own music spending a few days in the studio writing and recording his own songs. We are
- 07/12/2023
Jamieson Music Video
Jamie Postle paid Damien Gerard a visit recently to shoot his new, soon to release, music video with help from "Somewhere Nowhere". It was a supe
- 07/12/2023
CB Ghost Vocal tracking
CB Ghost has been killing his vocal session of recent utilising the bathroom acoustics for his vocal mic like Jim Morrision from the Doors. He ha
- 02/11/2023
Winterborne Fan Promotion Event
Winterbourne are back at Damien Gerard's recording live promo versions of selected tracks fron their upcoming album "Act of Disappearing". 8 luck
- 02/11/2023
Starcrazy Album
One of our favourite Sydney bands "Starcrazy" spent the past week with us at Damien Gerard Studios recording their full length album. Produced by
- 02/11/2023
Joel Leggett Live session
Joel Leggett is one of our favourite locals to record at Damien Gerard's and his live performance was no exception. All filmed by "Search Media",
- 02/11/2023
Phil Crossfield Session
Liam, Campbell and Phil had a great day in the studio recording their original tune. The song was very 60's influenced so the Wurlitzer, Hammond,
- 05/10/2023
Damien Gerard Studios Open Day
The Team at Damien Gerard Studios hosted a very successful open day in early September with guest speakers, Neav Watson, Mark Gable, Roge
- 05/10/2023
Session Player Collective
A stellar group of session players including Mitch Farmer, Jeff Camilleri, Dave Holmes and Angus Steventon played as a collecti
- 31/08/2023
Prime Minister – Recording Session
With only 6 hours to record, Eamon Smith and the Prime Minister band where able to live track two great sounding songs with time to spare. They..
- 31/08/2023
Astrovan – Recording Session
Astrovan were the NSW Youth rock competition winners for 2023 and the prize was a day recording at Damien Gerard Studios. The band were extremely
- 31/08/2023
Darlene Zschech
Jackson Barclay and Darlene Zschech absolutely killed it with their group of professional session musicians recording for a week at Damien Gerard
- 31/08/2023
Bones Bonito – Recording Session
Bones Bonito and his son Felix recorded Bones's own project with engineer An
- 31/08/2023
CB Ghost – Recording Session
To follow up the session below, CB Ghost tracked a new song accompanied with live tracked drums and killer acoustic guitar. We also tracked live
- 03/08/2023
Home-Brewed Radio Session – Little Quirks
Little Quirks are always a joy to have at Damien Gerard studios. They never disappoint brin
- 03/08/2023
Steve Kilbey – Acoustic “Blurred Crusade” recut
Steve Kilbey spent 5 days in the studio re-recording one of The Church's classic albums "Blurred Crusade" in a stripped back, acoustic fashion. S
- 03/08/2023
Taj Farrant – More sessions
Taj Farrant -
Making his second visit to Damien Gerard Studios, Taj was able to record 3 in
- 03/08/2023
The Church – Vocal tracking.
To finish off The Church's newest album, Steve Kilbey spent 3 days with us at Damien Gerard Studios recording the final vocals for the album. The
- 02/08/2023
Home-brewed Radio Session – Tessa Thames
Tessa Thames was a pleasure to have at Damien Gerard studios, her incredible vocals paired
- 08/07/2023
Session Gear
Here's some great pictures of some varied gear we have been using on sessions recently.
July
- 28/06/2023
Taj Farrant “Crossroads” session
Taj is one of the most talented guitarists and creatives that we have had the pleasure of working with at Damien Gerard Studios. "Crossroads" is
- 28/06/2023
Starcrazy cover of “SOS” by ABBA
Starcrazy's recording session covering "SOS" by ABBA was a joy to be a part of. All members of the band brought great energy to the studio and...
- 27/06/2023
Norma Murphy recording session
Aussie country legend and Golden Guitar winner, Norma Murphy's recording session at Damien Gerard Studios was an amazing session to witness. Liam
- 06/06/2023
Thundastar Mixing and Reamping
- 03/06/2023
Jessie-May K Sessions Finishing New Album
With the new album 'Rising Sun' coming out late May the final sessions leading up included some fine vocal touches and a bit more keys from Dave.
- 05/05/2023
Winterbourne Recording Session for New Album
The full team including session drummer Miles Thomas and free lance engineer Jackson Barclay were all on deck for these album session days for th
- 05/05/2023
Youth Rock Band The Tin Heads Recording Session
Welcome to The Tin Heads rocking the joint past few days on their YouthRock prize. Plenty of special spots in the live room to make some great...
- 05/05/2023
Little Kay Roxy Star Rap Session
- 05/05/2023
Apsara Music Recording Session
- 05/05/2023
Michael Peter Session
- 04/04/2023
Backing Vocals Session for Brendan McNamara
Last month we hosted a brilliant 3 days of complete album backing vocals with these A list ladies Amanda Easton and Serena Jennings for one of Br
- 04/04/2023
Chaperone Recorded at DG’s Tech Run Down
Here is a great technical run down of this recording, now released with more to come utilizing multiple studios and technique. And you can listen
- 04/04/2023
Grunge Rock Band 2nd Story Window Session
- 04/04/2023
Stewy Meira Live Improvisation Sessions
Today's session was a 1-2 take live improvisation of 8 songs for Stewy Meira with Murray Dilger audio engineering and playing bass guitar plus Ka
- 04/04/2023
Blue Mountains rock band Acid Amora session
- 06/03/2023
Natalie Gauci Tracking Sessions
Another set of amazing session guys back at DG's this week. None other than Ash Naylor of Even and The Paul Kelly Band and more recently The...
- 06/03/2023
Steve Kilbey ‘Speed of the Stars’ Session
- 06/03/2023
String Recording Session
Strings were going down big time last month for Luke Wright including mandocello and violin. This picture is the gents in the control room workin
- 06/03/2023
New Central Coast Band First Session
This 16 year old Central Coast band just had their first ever professional recording experience at DG's, courtesy of the Central Coast Council 'H
- 05/03/2023
Fusion Band First Time Recording
Another young band's first ever real recording experience for the Central Coast Council's 'Heard' project. This time average age 14 years Fusion
- 05/03/2023
The Mapex gets the Glyn Johns treatment
It's not always about the Ludwig Ringo kit as you can see here.
Recently we used our own ver
- 07/02/2023
Kalen Hogan New Single Recording Sessions
- 07/02/2023
Sydney Engineer Steve Coull Re-amping
Some re-amping yesterday for Sydney engineer Steve Coull working on his Key Ring Jeans project.
- 07/02/2023
Shauna Jensen Vocal Session
Yet another female vocalist this time the legendary Shauna Jensen chose Damien Gerard Studios to record earlier in the month for a project being
- 07/02/2023
Jessie-May K Vocal Comps Session
- 06/02/2023
Michaele Archer Session for Apsara Music
- 10/01/2023
Winterbourne Live Filming Session
The studio live room was transformed by a film crew for the Winterbourne live session.
Here
- 10/01/2023
Scott Gibson with Steve Kilbey producing
The start of this the session was laying the piano and vocal guides for a nine track album to be recorded over the next few days for...
- 10/01/2023
Texas Strangers Recording Session
Just a weekend or so pre Christmas saw the guys from Texas Strangers record some new tunes with Andrew Beck ahead of their shows at Tamworth Coun
- 10/01/2023
Spinning Cupids Session
Local Central Coast producer Conner Massey (often spotted at The Grove) brought in his mates Spinning Cupids for a tracking session last month wi
- 04/12/2022
Tape session for Brendan McNamara
A huge set up including 20(yes 20 x go pro video camera's to document it all) for the start of 4 days tape based session for Composer/Producer...
- 04/12/2022
Harvey Fisk, John Wardle & Richard Ruhle Cajun, Zydeco and Gospel session
Today’s session features some some little heard genre's in Australia Cajun, Zydeco and Gospel from Aussie legend Harvey Fisk (Foreday Riders, K
- 04/12/2022
Nick from October Rage vocal session
Today’s vocal chain for Nick from October Rage is a 1970 Neumann U87 via an original Neve 1073 preamp /equaliser and original Teletronix LA2A l
- 08/10/2022
Snakeoil in the studio
Self described as a meeting of Amy Winehouse and Paramore this band were really after classic sounds with lots of space around t
- 01/10/2022
Nice Racks!
With some outstanding outboard old and new out and about on a recent session we added some pics
- 05/09/2022
Juno Point bring out the big guns
Sydney band Juno Point came up for 5 days of tracking using the vintage mics and outboard, including the Tape Machine and some of our keyboards,
- 08/08/2022
Ben Gillies’ Drums
Ben from Silverchair was back at the studio recently with not one but two drum kits.
The pro
- 08/08/2022
Track Laying With Dave Hunt
A very productive day was spent with Dave Hunt (Sarah Blasko, Devoted Few) creating backing tracks including drums, bass, keys and guitar for Jes
- 12/07/2022
Adam Harvey and Beccy Cole
The ABC needed a handy Central Coast location to record vocals for Beccy Cole and Adam Harvey’s duet for the upcoming 'ABC90celebrate'
- 11/07/2022
Drawing Arrows Guitars
With new lead guitarist Tom Moyle now firmly established in the band’s new lineup the boys came in to record his signature guitar on a bunch of
- 11/07/2022
Slide Milligan Live In Studio
With Slide’s album ‘Blood Red River’ (all recorded at DGS) coming out back in May and the CD stock just arriving, it was time to pu
- 05/06/2022
Aurelius Tracking In The Studio
Sydney post punk indie guys Aurelius did an amazing job with their 5 day EP deal in early May. Recording tracking and mixing / m
- 05/06/2022
Texas Strangers recent sessions
- 05/06/2022
Jessie May Kitchen collaborative sessions
Jessie May Kitchen tracking in the studio
During May young central coast singer/ songwriter
- 03/06/2022
Luke Escombe – Whale Beach Road
Started in 2020, then held up by covid lockdowns, finally completed late 2021 here is the first single from Luke Escombe's triumphant new album e
- 27/04/2022
ALPHA GOOSE in the studio
APRIL 19 - The boys from ALPHA GOOSE were back in again for their album session starting around Easter but with pick up sessions stretching into
- 27/04/2022
The Tinku Band
APRIL 9 - Andrew Beck back at it again with a 3 piece blues session toda
- 27/04/2022
LAYING DOWN TRACKS
APRIL 11 - After the great big drum test day yesterday, we kept the Mapex Rock Kit out to record some spectacular tracks for a new single....
- 08/04/2022
Highlander Mixing
Newcastle Celtic Rock sensations HIGHLANDER chose Damien Gerard Studios to mix their latest album. With every Celtic instrument you can imagine,
- 08/03/2022
Hoodoo Gurus – live recording
The Hoodoo Gurus back in this week for a live recording session for a online concert in the states following the cancellation of their US tour. T
- 03/03/2022
The Rams tracking and mixing
Central Coast boys The Rams were back in to record some extra guitar parts on their new track Alibi, making use of our vintage '73 Strat and...
- 03/03/2022
Drawing Arrows – Film Clip & New Single
Drawing Arrows were back in to record a film clip for their new single, The Space Between, releasing late March. The vocals for the track was als
- 03/03/2022
Matt Hickey – mixing
The Matt Hickey band came back in to do some mixing of the final tune to be released following a recording session at the end of last...
- 03/03/2022
Jessie May-Kitchen drum tracking
A day long tracking session using our Ludwig Vintage 'Ringo' kit, some Vintage Guitars and Backline and even the Maton 320 Acoustic on a new song
- 07/02/2022
Silverchair’s Ben Gillies Rocks DG’s
We can't disclose too much of what was going on just yet- seeing Ben in the studio certainly created some frantic buzz with the fans - but...
- 07/02/2022
Turtle Custard Track their New Album
After enjoying the recording and mixing of their single of 2020 done at DGs for the Heard Community Project the band always said they wanted to c
- 07/02/2022
Jack Davison Solo Effort
Lead singer and principal song writer for Central Coast boys Halfway Homebuoy Jack Davison put together a solo EP of chilled out country american
- 07/02/2022
Sydney Band Brother Mine session drums
For their recent 2022 trip to lay more drums with Evan, a combination of our Ludwig 1960’s Ringo kit and Evan's own high quality bits and piece
- 07/02/2022
Fran Mathey Film Descriptions
Long term client Fran Mathey started off the new year with a day long dry hire session to compete a 50+page film description job. Her Sydney prod
- 07/02/2022
LOFi Rap Vocals for Jayden Harmony
Some 'Lofi' rap vocals went down early January for young Central Coast Rapper Jayden Harmony. Sweet and smooth sounds from the Neumann U47, Neve1
- 09/01/2022
Kayne Butler Live SSL Mixdown
Local drummer and producer Kayne Butler needed to mix down a live(no overdubs) tracking session and asked (read more)
- 09/01/2022
New local band JAN debut single recording
Our hard working chief engineer has been indie-rocking with brand new young band JAN’s new single.
- 09/01/2022
Kaijin Solo 2 Track Single
Repeating the successful recording 2 songs in a day approach he used for his last release and with the same players Kaijin was back at DG’s las
- 09/01/2022
Jessie May Kitchen Session Guitar and Keys
The beginning of Jessie’s session laying guides for her next EP, with Dave (from Sarah Blasko band) helping with instrumentation.
- 02/12/2021
Halfway Homebouy
Always hard to keep these local lads away the Halfway Homebouy's were back in the studio for vocal and guitar overdubs for the up coming 2022 alb
- 02/12/2021
Drawing Arrows
Drawing Arrows were recently back in for a vocal recording session using the classic Neuman U47 for lead, and M49 for backing vocals. Some guitar
- 02/12/2021
Ethan Beckton Session
One man band session for Ethan Beckton. Working on his first professionally recorded single, featuring acoustic guitar, piano, bass and vocals. G
- 02/12/2021
Evan Mannell Surf Rock Live Session
Classic surf rock album tracking with Stella Session Players Evan Mannell, Ben Hauptman, and Aaron Baz Flower. Lots of great guitar gear in for t
- 02/12/2021
Jo Fabro Horns Session
Great session for Jo Fabro recording horns and woodwinds for the new album. Evan Mannell producing and Andrew Beck engineering.
- 02/12/2021
Starcrazy Session
Week long session with Starcrazy for their follow-up EP with Mo Mayhem (Hell City Glamours) producing, Andrew Beck engineering and Murray Dilger
- 30/11/2021
Camino Gold Sessions
Camino Gold were in for a few days Tracking the new release with Steve Balbi producing and Jack Nigro(Dune Rats
- 30/11/2021
Matt Hickey Session
Overdubs session with Matt Hickey, starting with bass and iconic Gibson 1958 Les Paul junior.
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- 02/11/2021
Niamh Watson – Vocals
- 02/11/2021
The Church – Finishing Touches
Steve Kilbey has been using the studio ever since lockdown ended, to put the finishing touches to the forthcoming album by Aussie icons The Churc
- 02/11/2021
Brandon Macmillan/Jessie May Kitchen
This session between Central Coast singer/songwriter Jessie May Kitchen and local Coast FM Announcer Brandon Macmillan was to rework one of her s
- 05/09/2021
Lockdown Remote Mix Sessions
The one service available we can provide during lockdown is our remote mixing and mastering services because the 2 main engineers for that are ba
- 03/08/2021
Niksta Remote Mixdown
UPDATE AUGUST
After being very happy with the results from the below July s
- 01/07/2021
Winterbourne Tracking
Central Coast boys Winterbourne who are signed to Major Label Island Records chose DGs to start tracking a selection of songs for their second
- 01/07/2021
Steve Kilbey-Tour Pre Production
In his unique prolific fashion Mr Kilbey was back for a few days early in June. This time Steve brought in his band of virtuoso musicians The...
- 04/06/2021
Drawing Arrows
This Sydney band have recorded around town previously but are in the process of relocating to the Central Coast and came in to demo some vocals a
- 24/04/2021
Pearly White Tracking Session
Following on from his session back in May (see below) local coastie Pearly was back in for overdubs with Andrew Beck, the work is ongoing and onc
- 24/04/2021
The Broken Hillbillies
Julien Poulson - musician, songwriter, producer, and filmmaker (known for the Cambodian Space Project Band) a host of brilliant musicians and Eng
- 19/04/2021
New Central Coast lads the Dead Routes Band creates single
DG's was chosen by brand new Central Coast band 'Dead Routes' to record their debut 2 song
- 28/03/2021
The Good Love
Young central coast band The Good Love spent another day working with our young engineers t
- 28/03/2021
Grander Things Rock The Studio
Sydney band Grander Things came up to the coast for a weekend (and found a very nice Air BnB at Daly’s Point only 15 mins away) to...
- 28/03/2021
Cousin Betty on the MCI 2″ 24 track
Rockers Cousin Betty chose DG's specifically so they could track direct to 2" tape just like the old days. Having all recorded at both DGS Ultimo
- 23/02/2021
Spy V Spy Mixing
Spy V Spy returned to the Studio for their 4th session in as many months to finish mixing the last 8 tunes for the 'New Reasons' album....
- 10/02/2021
Cassady Southern
Adding a new single song to her album tracked and mixed at DG's last year, Cassady brought her full band back up for a day with Michael...
- 29/01/2021
Classical Instrument Recording
We tracked some classical instruments in the studio over January. Firstly Michaele Archer brought in classical guitar virtuoso Guiseppe Zangari t
- 29/01/2021
Adam Jones
Bluesman Adam Jones laid down a two-song single over the break - Marshall Cu
- 29/01/2021
Jessie May Kitchen
Following on from the sessions below and always a few steps ahead of her releases Jessie’s work last month included Russell Pilling doing the f
- 29/01/2021
Spy V Spy Overdubs
With the band's tracking for the new album completed late last year, these sessions were all about overdubs. Guitars were the first thing to addr
- 29/01/2021
The Tyrants
Tyrants Track Their New EP
Young rockers from the Central Coast The Tyrants chose DG's to trac
- 15/12/2020
Paul Scott Re-amp Mixing
Stems mixing on the SSL and Re Amping using the live room and Iso Booth
Paul S
- 15/12/2020
Drum Test and Sampling
Local Central Coast Drummer / Producer Kayne Butler brought his own Ludwig Kit in to test the room for future projects and we made some drum samp
- 15/12/2020
Halfway Homebuoy
It's a long way from Switzerland but that's where this Central Coast band formed.
C
- 15/12/2020
Little Quirks
Starring young Central Coast act now signed to ABC/Universal came in earlier in the year to launch their Florences Town single with a live stream
- 27/11/2020
THE S.A.TEES
Back at DGS for Another Original Song
These young central coast stars were back in for another
- 27/11/2020
Paul Bancam
Old School Elvis Vibes
Central coast songwriter Paul Bancan came in to lay a song down with se
- 27/11/2020
Steve Kilbey and The Winged Heels
Pre Production and Rehearsals
The Steve Kilbey and The Winged Heels sessions were both recordi
- 27/11/2020
Central Coast New Artists music Initiative
Government Initiative
Another group of local artists has been busy recording as part of the #h
- 27/11/2020
Taj Farrant
Just Can't Sleep Unplugged
We were chuffed to have local international star Taj Farrant in fo
- 26/11/2020
Jessie May Kitchen
Young singer songwriter Jessie May Kitchen already has 3 singles and an EP released all recorded and mixed at DG's over the past few years. This
- 01/11/2020
The Fields
Rock Out Original Tune From Scratch
The boys from The Fields rocked out with engineer Michael
- 18/10/2020
Cassady Southern
Huge Weekend of Tracking
Cassady Southern and her 4 piece band came into Damien Gerard Studios
- 13/10/2020
Mark Cashin
Mark Cashin Rocking Singles 2020-2021
Young up and coming engineer Murray Dilger put the final
- 04/10/2020
Hoodoo Gurus
Hoodoo Gurus Cut Songs Live For Triple M
At the start of October the Hoodoo Gurus came into Da
- 03/10/2020
Little Quirks
Little Quirks Video Live Set
Another filmed session. ABC Music’s recent signing Little Quirk
- 01/10/2020
Michaele Archer
Michaele Archer Apsara Project
Well known vocal teacher from the Gosford Conservatorium of Mus
- 30/09/2020
Anna Weatherup
Drum Recording
Local Country Artist Anna Weatherup chose Damien Gerard Studios to record all t
- 24/09/2020
Thirty Three Degrees
Mammoth Effort
Following their successful and mammoth effort of tracking and overdubbing 12 so
- 24/09/2020
Steve Kilbey
Ancient Project No. 2
Steve Kilbey assembled his favorite team to create another brilliant set
- 24/09/2020
The Blues Wranglers
Live Tracking
The 6 piece local blues rockers chose DGS for the large live room where they cou
- 22/08/2020
Thirty Three Degrees
Tracking Beds Live
Local boys the Thirty Three Degrees spent a 3 day weekend at the studio tra
- 21/08/2020
Reaching Audience During COVID
DGS Hosts Performances To Live Audience
With so few real gigs around due to the limited number
- 08/08/2020
Kaijin Solo
Risk Pays Off
Another tune produced by Marshall and featuring session players Warwick Fraser (
- 04/08/2020
Luke Escombe
Talks About The Nice Vibes At DGS
Luke Escombe talks about his recording experience at DG's th
- 01/08/2020
Big Merino
Recorded New Single
Big Merino, for their next single, travelled up from Syd
- 29/07/2020
Lizottes Pre-production
Sold Out Show
Steve’s 3rd project for July was the pre production for presenting
- 28/07/2020
Steve Kilbey and Martin Kennedy
New Collaborative Record
Adding to their vast catalogue of many collaborative records, Steve a
- 28/07/2020
The Winged Heels
Ancient Music Project
Mr Kilbey is becoming more enamoured with the central coast we think, ba
- 28/07/2020
Nathan Harvey
Local Legend
Local Central Coast legend Chappo performed, guesting on Blue Harp for Nathan Har
- 25/06/2020
Spencer Band
Live Stream Session
First up for the month was the Spencer Band’s live stream se
- 25/06/2020
Mark Cashin
Recording Commemoration
Mark continued work on the new song to commemorate the los
- 24/06/2020
Severed Raw Nerve
A Metal Session
A metal session for local coastie Darren Goulding with Eddie on le
- 26/05/2020
Steve Kilbey’s Solo Project with Legendary Players
Legends Visit DGS
May has seen the studio gain more sessions with the new guidelines coming in
- 19/04/2020
Jessie May Kitchen
Order of the Day
Tape and Dat transfers, vocals, mixing, audio sweetening and mastering has be
- 02/04/2020
The Church (Pic: Tim Powles, Ian Haug and Jeffrey Cain)
Lovin' the Central Coast
With less sessions due to covid19 we have some room to mention that A
- 02/04/2020
Slide Milligan
Returns With Refurbished Timber Bench Creations
Slide Milligan returned to DG’s for a weeken
- 02/04/2020
The Texas Strangers
American Dream
The Texas Strangers returned to DG’s to finish the overdubs on their forthcom
- 31/03/2020
Steve Kilbey & Gareth Koch
Returned Already to Record New Album
Steve Kilbey and Gareth Koch were so happy with the respo
- 29/02/2020
Laura T Davis
Recording New Album
Laura T Davis has been continuing work on her new album with electric guit
- 29/02/2020
Slide Milligan
Featuring Gareth Koch
The year has well and truly started with notable sessions for Slide Mill
- 29/02/2020
Lily Duval
New Single
A new single for Lily Duval featuring Aria nominee Peter Holz on bass and guitar as
- 29/02/2020
Jessie May Kitchen
Laying Vocals for Her Upcoming Debut
Jessie May Kitchen laying vocals for her upcoming debut E