The beginning of the month started with finishing “Bilal’s Stand” a feature film from Michigan which went to Sundance Film Festival this year!

Also finished this month a short film called “This One is About Love” a great film with big hopes to becoming feature film trilogy all shot in Seattle!

Passion for Peril came out for their first studio experience and tracked two full songs which will be mixed in the coming weeks. Hope to see those guys again soon!

Wild Orchid Children came back out to the studio and finished tracking for their upcoming album Alexander Supertramp. It has been a long 9 months since they were last out to the studio, it was great to have them back and to finally finish what we started.

Jaded Mary came out and we tracked 3 songs and looking forward to mixing that in the coming weeks as well!

Thomas Hunter from Kay Kay and Wild Orchid Children, came out and tracked drums for his solo project. From what I heard the album is going to sound amazing! I look forward to hearing the album when it is complete!

Koozbane came out the last weekend of the month to track drums which they completed in 6 hours! Wishbone tore it up!

It was a busy month and a blast! Thank you everybody for coming out I hope everyone had as good of a time as I did. I look forward to seeing you all again soon!
-Austin Healy

Newton’s Law decided to keep their album as Tom had last touched it and I was given the opportunity to master the album.

Lorpan is now in mixdown and the album is sounding awesome! Everybody get ready for a rocking album!

Mosquito Valentine Trio cam back out to the studio and completed what they had started over a year ago.

Hands of Gabriel came out to the studio for their first studio experience and had an awesome time! It was a good time and look forward to their return to track some more songs.

Mark Miller finished off the month tracking Danbert Nobacon with The Bad Things!

Thank you everybody for all the love and support to keep this awesome studio going! I look forward to seeing all of you again and hearing the new music you bring!

-Austin Healy

• Finishing up mixing “Kay Kay and His Weathered Undergrounds” full length album.
• Co-producing, tracking , mixing, mastering an EP for a new Seattle band “Wild Orchid Children” (Kay Kay side project)
• Producing a few more tracks for “The Johnbenders”
• Mixing another song for “For a Few”
• Recording and mixing a music soundtrack for a full length Hollywood film (cannot say more)
• Mixing a hip hop record for Dustin Reican The Revengers (yep-I said hip hop)

And on top of all of this, still making time to be a loving father, a full time teacher and caring husband.
Needless to say, I’m swamped. However I am going to start finding more time to keep everyone in the loop.
Hope everything is going well elsewhere for everyone else as well.

Peace,
Tom

We’ll let you know when and if that happens so you can enjoy all 6 channels of audio goodness.

Respect.

Right now Evan one of the guitarists for the band is editing drums and they will be overdubbing everything in their home studio, then bringing it back to the tank in a couple weeks, where we will be mixing the full length album. It’s going to be exciting to hear it when it’s all done. Be on the lookout for it, we’ll make sure you know when it’s finished.

The Tank opened it’s doors 6 years ago this October.  Over the course of those 6 years there have been many amazing records that have come through our doors.  Not to mention the countless stories, adventures and amazing feasts enjoyed by all.

Our mission now is simple… we carry on and we carry on with enough volume and force for Tom to hear us wherever he is.  We are going to continue making great records here and we are going to continue sharing amazing experiences with one another and the Pfaeffle family.  It’s up to us to give the story of The Tank a new chapter.  One that would make Tom proud.

Whether you’re a band who has done records here or a producer who used our studio for your own projects or an artist who never had the chance to work here, we can’t express enough how much we want you to bring your projects here.  With every project that comes out we get a little taste of Tom back in our lives.

If you’d like to book time this summer please contact Tim Dulany (tim@pinkonvinyl.com).  Tim has been with The Tank since it was nothing more than a pile of wood and dirt and has spent hundreds of hours working with Tom in all types of settings.  He will be helping manage things at the studio while we make our plans for the future.

Thank you all for your unending support while we figure out this new life.  Lots of love from all of us here at The Tank.

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STUDIO INFORMATION
The Tank is a comfortable and affordable recording studio located 50 minutes outside of Seattle in the foothills of the Cascades. Projects range from tracking, overdubbing, remote recording and mixing entire full length music projects, EP’s, and Film/Post Production work including 5.1 Surround Sound.

I created this studio as a place musicians could come to record their music with quality equipment and precision engineers. To view some of my past and present clients and links to some of the studios recent work visit the Artists Page.

The Tank uses Pro Tools HD with 24-bit Cranesong external AD/DA conversion. For an additional fee, a 2-inch analog tape machine can be brought in.

The live room is 800 sq ft (14 ft ceiling) with adjustable acoustic properties (.8 sec reverb time is the average). The isolation booth is 125 sq ft with a ceiling height of 12 ft. The control room is very tight sounding at 25 ft x 20 ft with an expansion peak and 13 ft ceiling height.

The green room is not only a great place to relax between takes, but is also available for 24 hour lockouts as a place to stay. It has a shower, kitchenette, beds and wireless internet. If you’re interested in staying overnight here during your session, let us know and we can discuss rates.

INSTRUMENTS
The studio has a well tuned acoustic upright, several guitar amps, acoustic guitars and percussion instruments including a full drum kit, various snare drums & Paiste Signature Series brass .

INTERNSHIPS and EMPLOYMENT
No full-time employment opportunities are available at this time (though freelance engineers are more than welcome to bring their projects here). If something does become available, we will post information here.