Viscount Records and Studios"

About Viscount Records

Viscount Records (pronounced "Vie kount", the "s" is silent) was started in 1966 as a need to fill a void in a professional recording studio where local musicians could record at a reasonable price.

Back then in an analog world, it was all about the music and the peformance and still is in the digital world. Recording great performances is what I enjoy the most but I also have an addiction to great equipment, analog and digital, to capture those perfomances. I really don't want to think about the equipment while I'm recording, it needs to be transparent as much as posssible so I tend to buy the best sounding and most reliable stuff that I can.

Due to a demand for services Viscount Records is now a full service studio that can supply those needs, such as those listed below.

Always ready to embrace new technologies when the time is right, in 1974 Viscount Records became the first studio in the area to offer 2"-30 ips,16 track recording. First in the area, in the early 80's even before DAT recorders were available, to use digital recording technology to compliment the analog.

In 1996 computers for digital editing and CD mastering (can you believe blank CD-Rs had just dropped below $25 each back then and a CD burner was $1200) were added to the audio equipment list.

Digital audio is something I've been working with for a long time so when the time came, in 2000, for a full blown Digital Audio Recording system it was an easy step to ProTools.

Many audio upgrades have been made since ProTools including: upgrading to ProTools HD, New Preamps added, New Microphones, New Computers, etc. There is, however, still plenty of vintage gear here.

Acoustic and esthetic upgrades have also been made and are still being made as time will allow. Oh and let's not forget this, the web site finally got around to an update.

The upgrade process is never ending and shouldn't be.

Services Offered:
  • High Definition Digital Recording via Protools TDM
  • Production Assistance
  • Mixing
  • Mastering
  • Video Post Production and ADR
  • Short-Run CD Duplication of Audio CD, CD-ROM
  • Short-Run CD Duplication of Video CD, DVD and DVD-ROM
  • Manufacturing (Replication) of Audio CD, CD-ROM
  • Manufacturing (Replication) of DVD and DVD-ROM
  • Transfer of Audio to CD from Pro Tools Files, 1/4" Reel, Cassette, 45 and 33 rpm records
  • Transfer of Video to DVD and Video CD from DV files, SVHS and VHS
  • DVD Authoring
  • Graphic Design for CD and DVD
  • Consulting Services, with specialties in Analog and Digital audio systems, Pro Tools DAW Systems and Mac OSX computers.