- 14/03/2025
Insteria Youth rock Session
Insteria are an alternative rock collective from Sydney who recently won the Youth Rock competition and won the chance to come and record on of t
- 04/02/2025
Fletcher Kent Rolling Stone Live Session
Its a pleasure as always to have Fletcher recording with us at Damien Gerard Studios. This visit was to record some live versions of original son
- 04/02/2025
Cathy Burnside Piano Recording
Local talent Cathy Burnside just made a visit to our recording studio to track acoustic piano and her vocals for an upcoming release. The song is
- 04/02/2025
Georgia Mooney Recording Session
Having Georgia Mooney in the studio teamed up with Andrew Beck as engineer and Simon Johnson as producer/bassist made for an extremely streamline
- 03/12/2024
Mezcaltones Recording Session
We had such a productive 3 days recording 10 tracks with the Mezcaltones. Andrew Beck's Engineering made for an extremely efficient and thorough
- 28/10/2024
Steve Kilby and The Church
As always, we love having Steve Kilby in the studio and this session was no exception. He is able to bring an energy to each recording session...
- 28/10/2024
Travis Collins Recording Session
Travis Collins is an incredibly talented country musician who has had multipuel albums reach the top 20 in the Aria charts and has won 8 Golden G
- 28/10/2024
Jarrod Hickling and Simon Johnson
Simon Johnson is a regular at Damien Gerards and this time he brought with the the very talented Jarrod Hickling who is a successful local countr
- 28/10/2024
Cypress Jazz Fusion Live Session
Cypress and Murray Dilger teamed up recently to create a live performance that was filmed by non less than 8 different cameras. 8 camera angles w
- 28/10/2024
Stomp’n Ramblers Recording Session
The Stomp'n Ramblers are a 3 piece band from the northern beaches of Sydney which consist of awesome slide guitar, rocking drums and great soundi
- 27/09/2024
The Publishing Company
Andrew Beck and Micheal Peter are back in the studio working on their joint project titled "The Publishing Company". The project is coming along
- 27/09/2024
Fletcher Kent Live Session
Fletcher Kent is an extremely talented vocalist, guitarist and songwriter who teamed up with our own Murray Dilger to spend a day at the studio r
- 27/09/2024
The Stomp’n Ramblers Recording Session
The Stomp'n Ramblers are a band out of the Northern Beaches in Sydney who came to Damien Gerards to spend a day recording 4 original songs with..
- 27/09/2024
Full Credit Album Recording
Full Credit are a band out of Newcastle who just spent 6 days with us recording their upcoming Album with our talented in-house chief engineer, A
- 27/09/2024
Cypress Music Drum covers
Murray Dilger and Cypress teamed up to record and film 5 drum covers for Cypress's personal youtube channel. One cover has already been released
- 27/08/2024
CB Ghost and Archie
A long time friend and client of the studio, CB Ghost, has been hard at work recording his upcoming project with us at the studio. The past...
- 27/08/2024
Drum Recording with Murray Dilger
Our In-House engineer Murray Dilger was in the studio recently, playing and recording drums for a few of his personal clients. He recorded our ho
- 01/08/2024
Space Rock Mega Jam
A live jam night for some brilliant young coastie bands including Shacked, Turtle Custard, Ruby and the Groovy Doobies and Madam Sandler<
- 01/08/2024
Paul and John Field Duo
With a star studded cast of session players Paul Field and the team competed a range of tunes for various compilations and promotional usage. And
- 01/08/2024
Bob Pigott Recording Session
Central coast country roots artist Bob Piggott has resurfaced after a hiatus during covid to return and record a series of new singles. Andrew Be
- 03/07/2024
Marcus Turk and Dave Holme
With Dave behind the wheel as the producer and Josh Telford engineering, Marcus Turk's country project is in great hands and is sounding great! I
- 03/07/2024
Tim Minchin Yamaha C7 Grand Recording Session
We were lucky enough to have the extremely talented Tim Minchin record with us over the past few weeks and along with him, we received and brand.
- 03/07/2024
PISTOL Recording Session
The bigger the drums, the bigger the sound! We had an awesome time recording Sydney band PISTOL who sounded reminiscent of Silverchair, Pearl jam
- 03/07/2024
Shane Shepherd Recording Session
We always love having Shane here to record with us and this session was no exception. Shane's music paired with Andrew Beck's engineering skill m
- 03/07/2024
Zailya Production and Recording
Zaylia is an up and coming young artist from the coast who is working alongside our talented young engineer, Murray Dilger and this is also his f
- 29/05/2024
Tim Minchin Recording Session
Tim Minchin is a world wide sensation who we were extremely excited to have in the studio recording some of his original pieces with Andrew Beck
- 29/05/2024
Wade Forster Recording session
Having extremely talented session musicians in the studio makes our jobs not feel like work and Wade Forster and his great accompanying musicians
- 29/05/2024
Coral Renee Recording Session
Working with Coral and her supporting band members was such a pleasure as they all acted with complete professionalism while keeping a great ener
- 28/05/2024
Shane Shepard Recording Session
Long time friend of the studio, Shane Shepard, spent the day recording one of his originals with Andrew Beck. The tune consisted of just vocals
- 30/04/2024
The Tryouts with Paul Mckercher
The Tryouts with Producer Paul McKercher were such a great group of musicians to be around! Their energy and attitude made the recording session
- 30/04/2024
Sucker Punch
Coming up from Sydney we hosted the lads from "Sucker Punch", a Heavy punk rock band. Plenty of gain and plenty of toms were used in the...
- 30/04/2024
Jessie May-K Garage session 2
As of a few weeks ago, Damien Gerard hosted the second Installment of Jessie May-K's Garage sessions with guest appearances from CB Ghost and Kal
- 30/04/2024
Kajin Solo Guitar tracking
Kajin spent the day with Andrew Beck recording more guitar tracks and trying
- 08/04/2024
Gareth Koch Recording session
Gareth flew up from his current home state of Tasmania and spent some time with us over Easter crafting a new electric and acoustic instrumental
- 08/04/2024
Steve Kilbey Session
- 08/04/2024
CB Ghost Drum session
CB Ghost is back in the studio, this time laying down drums for one his new songs. The Ludwig kits sound is perfect for the type of...
- 08/04/2024
The Church Vocals
This iconic and prolific Austrailan Band spend a lot of their in the USA these days, usually 2 Tours a year. This has lead to yet another...
- 08/04/2024
Kaijin Solo Project
Kaijin is a long time friend of all of us at Damien Gerard's and one of our 'Go To' session players along with his own materiel. We...
- 08/04/2024
Damien Gerard Mic Collection
Heres a small sample of the mics on offer that we havent covered in detail before, see previous Mic posts for the other Neumann's including the v
- 05/03/2024
Jessie May-K Garage sessions
We are super excited to announce that we have just finished recording and filming the very first Damien Gerard studios Garage session hosted by l
- 05/03/2024
Ruby Archer and Nat Love session
Ruby spent 3 days with us recording an upcoming single and also shooting 4 songs live in our main studio including one solo performance on our up
- 05/03/2024
Kalen Hogan Recording session
Kalen Hogan is back at DG's to start work on his new upcoming project with A
- 05/03/2024
Zailya and Murray recording session
- 03/02/2024
Analogue Recording Camp
A successful foray into audio education at the studio
We can cert
- 03/02/2024
Owen Campbell
Owen Campbell spent two days recording with Andrew Beck for his upcoming
- 03/02/2024
Acid Amora Recording session
Acid Amora killed it in the studio for their two day recording session finishing up 4 final songs to complete their first album. This was their t
- 02/02/2024
Severed Raw Nerve
Metal Band "Severed Raw Nerve" did one day of recording with Chief engineer, Andrew Beck. They performed 3 originals ranging from heavy metal to
- 03/01/2024
The Publishing Company feat. Michael Peter
Local Central Coast stalwart Michael Peter had some great sessions recording bass, drums, and guitar for the new album for his band "The Publishi
- 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
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
Kawai Upright Piano
We've had so many comments from players recently of how much they love our Kawai we just wanted to mention these few -
- 05/10/2023
New Rates – Limited Time
Ever since our move to the Central Coast, and the high end upgrades that came with it, we know we've been out of reach for some artists,...
- 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
- 03/08/2023
DG Open Day Saturday September 2
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- 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
- 13/06/2023
Homebrewed Radio Session – Winterborne
Winterborne -
After recently recording with us at Damien Gerard studios, Winterborne perform
- 08/06/2023
The Electorate Tracking
The Electorate came up from Sydney and brought engineer Steve Coull along with them to work on all the recording for 2 songs.
- 06/06/2023
Thundastar Mixing and Reamping
- 06/06/2023
Kaijin Solo session guitar
Local lead guitarist (left handed) and rock singer songwriter Kaijin Solo was spotted at the studio last month guesting on an all in live jam ban
- 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
Michael Peter Session
- 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
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
- 10/02/2023
The Blumlein Pair
Andrew Beck pulled out his Coles 4038's for overheads on a recent session and ran them in Blumlein Mode. (The Blumlein Pair technique uti
- 07/02/2023
Kalen Hogan New Single Recording Sessions
- 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
- 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
QLD band Oleander Grove recording with Shane Nicholson producing
Next few days we welcome rock band Oleander Grove all the way from Redcliffe Queensland recording 7 brand new songs with the mighty Shane Nichol
- 10/11/2022
Natalie Gauci recording sessions
Some great new tunes going down this week for Natalie Gauci with such luminaries as Steve Kilbey (producer and bass), Ashley Naylor (guitars), Ba
- 10/11/2022
Big Week of Sessions
For the first week of October, we had the pleasure of hosting local central coast artists Jessie-May K (recording), William VanLeer (mixing) and
- 09/11/2022
The Blue Reds recording session
- 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
- 08/10/2022
Jessie-May Kitchen Inspires
Inspired during a background vocal harmony session young Central Coast Artist Jessie-May Kitchen wrote a new song and needed to record it quickly
- 08/10/2022
Joel Leggett Recording Session
- 05/09/2022
William Vanleer Production Deal
Local Americana singer/songwriter William Vanleer took advantage of one of our many production deals and has been recording two songs throughout
- 05/09/2022
Acts Of Insanity Metal Band Session
Local hard rocking metal band Acts of Insanity spent a pretty long and loud day or so tracking a few songs and overdubbing guitar and vocals. The
- 05/09/2022
Drum Kit Mics
With the large live room, diffusers and drum wall, not to mention the arsenal of vintage microphones we see many clients come in to record drums.
- 10/08/2022
Special Event – Guide to the basics of Music Recording
As part of the Central Coast Music Festi
- 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
Kalen Hogan
Young Central Coast artist Kalen Hogan had his first ever professional studio experience recording 2 songs over 2 days playing all the guitars an
- 08/08/2022
Sydney Rock Band No Escape Tracking Weekend
Here is the set up for some basic rock tracking with Sydney band No Escape who are doing a selection of weekends over the coming months to...
- 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
- 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
- 10/07/2022
Recording preparation tips
Here's some valuable recording prep tips from our chief engineer Andrew Beck's over 30 years experience working in recording studios from Los Ang
- 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
Central Coast Stories Podcast Recording
The latest edition to be recorded at the studio is Dr Do More ER doctor on the Central Coast - Ash Bowden talking with journalist Kayleen Bell.<
- 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
- 08/04/2022
Mic & Gear News
This month we have some great new additions to the studio that we are extremely jazzed about using on your upcoming projects. Here are just some
- 08/04/2022
Drawing Arrows Video Release – (shot at Damien Gerard Studios)
Drawing Arrows new video out now, all shot at the studio. You can see some of our vintage backline as 'props' for Drawing Arrows. The guys record
- 05/04/2022
Hoodoo Gurus Chariot of the Gods
The Hoodoo Gurus return to the charts with their new album, Chariot of the Gods, debuting in the ARIA top 10 for the March release. Drums and...
- 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
’73 Fender Jazz Bass
A vintage '73 Fender Jazz has also joined our backline for upcoming sessions, this bass not only looks but sounds the part! Not to be sniffed at.
- 03/03/2022
TLAudio VP-1 Valve(Tube) Processors
New channel strips joining our gear list this week. A stereo pair from the 1980's, British made hence 'Valve' instead of 'Tube'. The VP-1 valve p
- 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
Halfway Homebouy album completed!
After four years of hard work Halfway Homebouy have finished their next album. Beginning in Balmain way back in 2018 then making repeated use of
- 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
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
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
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
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
Jo Fabro Horns Session
Great session for Jo Fabro recording horns and woodwinds for the new album. Evan Mannell producing and Andrew Beck engineering.
- 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
- 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
- 02/11/2021
First session post lockdown
The first official session at the reopened DG's post lockdown was a day of film description voicing for Fran Mathey. Her producer Martyn Taylor
- 30/08/2021
About DG’s 2021
The most recent interview with studio manager Marshall Cullen all about The New Grieve Road West Gosford Facility which opened its doors October
- 29/01/2021
Voice Overs and Other Studio Services
It's easy to forget the capabilities of a complete music studio, so here's a quick reminder of many other things we do, as well as recording, mix
