Audio Engineer with 20 years experience/ 30 years as a musician. Spent the better part of a decade honing my craft in Nashville working on countless Indie projects, rock, rap/hip hop, and big band/symphony orchestra, touring with bands etc. Currently residing in Alabama with a studio full of great gear. I want to work on your projects!
After spending a decade in Nashville working as a freelance audio engineer, live sound, studio, I moved to Alabama and opened up my own professional level studio to work on projects without the limitations.
Currently offering Mastering, Mixing, Auto Tune services.
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New music with Rudy has been such a treat!!!! always so excited when i see Skip's name pop up and extremely amazing to think of all the fantastic music we've worked on together!! congrats on the new release Rudy!!!! phenomenal as ALWAYS!!
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always an amazing pleasure!!!! Rudy is a genuine talent and incredible person!! highly recommend and very grateful to be involved at all πππππππ
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Outstanding as always!!! amazing to do another new single with Rudy, absolutely sensational!
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Amazed by Rudy and this last song we did together, blew my mind ! !!! Highly recommend Rudy π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯
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Incredible experience with Rudy entirely, super professional, perfect communication and mega talented, highly recommend ! πππππ
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Love collaborating with Rudy, brilliant personality and character in all the music, professional, great communicator A+++!
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Love collaborating with Rudy, truly a kind professional and gifted soul - we had great rapport right off the cuff and the music has attitude and is insanely inspiring, highly recommend!!!
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Rudy is supremely talented, an absolutely pleasure to work on this project together, such a great communicator, super professional! Always a big plus!!!! Donβt hesitate is you have the opportunity to collaborate with Rudy, you wonβt regret it! Trust me!
Interview with Rudy Hall
Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?
A: I produced an ep for a drummer that showed up and said he'd wanted to sing. He turned out to be an amazingly talented songwriter and visionary and very close friend.
Q: What are you working on at the moment?
A: I have multiple productions happening in the studio; Old Gospel, New Orleans Jazz, Classic Rock, Blues and a heavy rock
Q: Is there anyone on SoundBetter you know and would recommend to your clients?
A: Elliot James Mulhern Mastering. He's great.
Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: I love analog. Its not 100% possible in my studio so really I'd say both.
Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?
A: You won't find someone that will work harder to make your vision come to life
Q: What do you like most about your job?
A: Working with talented creative people.
Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?
A: What will the end product sound like
Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?
A: Everybody can do it.
Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?
A: Time frame, comparable projects, goals etc.
Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A: I've been the guy with a limited budget trying to make it work, and having my career held up waiting to make an album. I'd love to work on your project. Message me!
Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?
A: An acoustic, an SM7 and small PT rig.
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: It started playing guitar in youth group band at church almost thirty years ago and evolved from recording my band on a Korg Mulitrack in an apartment bedroom to moving to Nashville, making friends and going to school to learn audio engineering. After a good many years, branching out on my own in Alabama.
Q: How would you describe your style?
A: Projects I produce tend to have a live and organic feel.
Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?
A: Angie Aparo. He is one of the most interesting and inspiring people I've had the pleasure of meeting.
Q: Can you share one music production tip?
A: Start at the source.
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: I like organic music. All kinds.
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: Ability to listen
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: Years of experience playing in bands, writing high energy crowd moving songs... I've been called the ToneDaddy
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: Very laid back.
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: In the new studio we have a 16x35 live room setup with drums, piano and organ as well as a 12x8 vocal booth/amp.closet filled with classic and boutique amps. Control room is 12x14 with Lynx Converters, SSL Preamps/EQ channel strips, Fusion, Heritage Audio 1073 style channel strips, 1176 and LA2A style compressors.
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: I am extremely inspired by mixing engineers that work outside the box of what the industry is doing. I'm inspired by supremely talented musicians and artists that show up ready to create a masterpiece.
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: Creating radio ready masters Translating clients vision with max hi-fi mixing Stretching the boundaries of creativity in production
I was the Producer, Songwriter, Tracking/Mix Engineer in this production
- Mastering EngineerAverage price - $80 per song
- Mixing EngineerAverage price - $250 per song
- Vocal TuningAverage price - $75 per track
- EditingAverage price - $75 per track
Turnaround time is generally within 2-3 days. First and Second Revisions at no charge. 3rd or more Revisions at 50% track cost.
- Lynx Aurora Converters
- Heritage Audio Preamps and Compressors
- Solid State Logic Alpha EQ's and Fusion
- Pro Tools
- Ozone Isotope 9 Advanced
- Pro Fab Mastering Bundle