Wednesday, November 11, 2009

George Furlow - Album Producer

I am recording the album One Life at Furball Studios in Wilkins Township in the Pittsburgh area beginning in January. We have our first round of tracking scheduled for the third weekend in January which will include drums, bass, keys, guitar and my scratch vocal as well as loops which I will have mostly finished from now until then.

I chose George Furlow to be the recording producer of this album because of his veteran experience with praise and worship music and recording. George is also located just ten minutes down the road from my house in the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh so that makes hitting the studio very simple. George's bio follows (adapted from his website at www.georgefurlow.com):

George was born in the town of Grafton, WV. He moved from Grafton to Washington DC and on to Cumberland, MD and then on to Baltimore, MD. His family finally settled in Pittsburgh, PA where he has lived for the past thirty five years. George attended Duquesne University and got a B.S.M.E of Music and a Master of Music in Saxophone. Since graduation of college, George has been a band director, teacher and Music Director/Associate Pastor at Covenant Church of Pittsburgh. In 1995, he felt God's call to move in the area of full-time music ministry to share with the Body Of Christ in a broader way. Having been a music director and raised in a church that was full of worship, it was God's plan to take those kinds of talents and experience into "All Nations".

In 2001 he returned to Covenant Church Of Pittsburgh where he is once again the Music Director/ Worship Pastor serving with Bishop Garlington, Denise Graves, Clarence Grant, Alton Merrel and Toni Turner.

Musical Experience

Pittsburgh Symphony
Benedum Theatre
Integrity Music: Ron Kenoly, Paul Wilbur, Don Moen, Marty Nystrom, Bob Fitts
Maranatha! Music
Promise Keepers
Bishop Joseph L. Garlington
Israel Houghton
Eagles Wings with Rob Stearns
Three Rivers Saxophone Quartet

Equipment & Studio List:

Soprano is a Yamaha YAS 62 with a Ralph Morgan *8 Jazz and Winslow Ligature
Alto is a Selmer Mark VI (1970 Vintage) with a New York Meyer #6 M
Tenor is a Selmer Mark VI 1958 Vintage Guardala King R&B mouthpiece
Flute is a Muramatsu GX
Yamaha WX-5 Windcontroller with a Yamaha VL-70 Module
Finale software for Music Notation.
Vandoren Java #3 on Tenor and Alto. Vandoren #3 on Soprano
Sure LX Wireless system with Clip-on 98 Microphone
Sennheiser 421 for flute and sax

Furball Music Recording Studio:

Nuendo 3.0 on Mac OSX
Hammerfall Digiface
Mackie Controller
Roland M 1000 Digital Line Mixer
Mackie HR 824 Monitors
Roland Professional V-Drums® set with expandable TD-10 sound module and full-size V-Pads™.
Avalon 747 Mic Pre
Roland 5080
Yamaha EX-5
Yamaha Motif (Rack)
Yamaha P100 Keyboard


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