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Barron Studios is now running ProTools HD Version 10 in all studios. Complete with super speedy RAM caching, clip gain, network storage, and new audio suite tricks. If you’re a PT geek like us: smile. If not, just know that the new functionality makes us faster, better and happier. And you already know, fast and happy engineers are the best type.

Brand new rates and structure! Better for everyone! First up: Lead engineers are $70/hr (Chris & Randy). 2nd up: Staff Engineers are $50/hr (Vince and Todd). Staff engineers will now take $50/hr sessions in which ever studio is first available! Then we are also able to offer a super discounted rate of $30/hr with a Student Engineer. Student Engineers are recording school graduates and have been additionally trained up here at Barron to meet our minimum standards. They are learning. They are slow. They are dirt cheap. We only open the studio up to them late at night and Sundays for this killa rate. Peep our rates page for more info…or give us a call.

Feel good song of the summer, “Gucci, Gucci” by Oakland’s Kreayshawn is nominated for MTV’s Best New Artist on this Sunday’s VMA’s - and it was mixed at Barron Studios by Randy Biddle. Give her a vote for Best New Artist HERE. And next time you need a mix, call Barron Studios to get Randy on your track.

Barron’s own Randy Biddle got to drop some mixing knowledge on Chris Brown’s newest mixtape “Boy In Detention”. Randy mixed and chopped Yoko - feat Berner, Wiz Khalifa, & Big KRIT. Check out the whole tape here on DatPiff.

The Warehouse Studio got a massive sounding upgrade today with the addition of a Premier Custom drum kit. The kit is huge, beautiful and full of thunderous tone - a perfect fit for The Warehouse Studio’s spacious live room. The kit is available for all sessions booked in The Warehouse Studio. Give us a call to swing by and check out what sound possibilities we can offer your band.

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The new facility is officially open for recording. The Warehouse at Barron Studios is our premier multi-room studio - spacious control room, three acoustically diverse tracking spaces, private lounge, and exceptional gear. The live room is acoustically tuned 350 sq/ft capable of 3 second reverb tails- perfectly tailorable for massive punchy drums or beautiful natural room for a string quartet. The vocal booth is tightly acoustically controlled, like you’d expect, complete with full wall upholstered in suede and wood trim.

Hello Houston!! We are MOVING to a newly designed facility minutes West of downtown starting February 1, 2011. The phone number is the same. Current rates are available and are not changing. The new facility is a GIGANTIC upgrade! No stairs! Free parking! Two studios! One bigger. One way bigger!! The new address is 1701 Detering Street, Houston 77007. We’ve also brought in some new engineering talent we’ll be introducing in the next weeks. Big things happening to start off 2011.

Introducing kFrank and his first full length project. We had the pleasure of working with Frank and Co. this summer. Chris @Barron recorded and mixed the whole project. Then it got sent over the England for mastering by Kevin Grainger at Wired Masters. The Predicate EP Revised feature production from Nuel & Bleu, and an eclectic cast from around the globe. Check it on iTunes, or peep some free tracks on BandCamp.

Flesh Parade’s long awaited “Dirty Sweet” has finally arrived. After two years of meticulous performance, recording, mixing, and general brutality to ear drums, these 17 songs of grind get released to the wild. FP and Barron have worked tirelessly to complete this project. Well done Rene (GTR), Todd (DRUMS), Scott (VOCALS), Tony (BASS) and Chris, the Barron engineer massaging in all together. Official release date is December 28 - get your copy on Amazon, iTunes, or Mainstay Recordings.