Electric Warrior Studio is a full service recording and mastering facility. Music lessons are available too: guitar theory, jazz, rock, classical and bass-guitar and piano theory and practice-$15/1/2 hr., less if low income. Mastering lessons and recording theory is taught too by the 1/2 day for $50 per/1/2 day in a class of two or three. With name brand equipment such as Apogee, Focusrite, Drawmer, Kurzweil K-2500, E Magic-8 port midi mixer, Pro Lexicon effects like the PCM 91, & Pro Tools Digi 003, Digi Eleven Rack and Marshal and Fender amps. We use all monster and Apogee digital cables. We can provide a quality demo or finished product according to your budget. For now it is $15/hr for studio time. I ask that you come prepared to lay down tracks and not experiment much. It gets tedious, but I am open to real creative stuff! We use Har-Bal mastering software, Universal Audio and other major plug-ins, Sony editing, along with Waves plug-ins to achieve a radio ready analog sound. We have a db meter to make sure each mastered song is of equal loudness. Meters lie! Our studio is 1,000 sq. ft. in downtown Augusta, GA. Call 706-724-4447 in the evenings. Recently the R & B gospel group, Wisdom, of Augusta, GA. finished their 9 song CD and have topped the regional charts. Their budget was below $10K over a four year period. We have a great track record with acoustic and electric jazz, and handle acoustic and rock equally as well. Our mics are excellent and most are US or Russian made. Mike Dease recorded his Juilliard audition CD here and other Jazz artists. We have been told our jazz sounds like a Blue Note CD. My music here is fusion, rock and classical-using Finale. We have a 96 track capacity with an HP 8 core CPU at 2.8 ghz with 6GB of ram later to be 32GB. To master you CD costs $150-$250. Feel free to email a 30 sec. segment of your song and let me show you what can be done for you-no charge! Use yousendit.com, it is free. Happy Music, Michael J Rhoden Music lessons are: guitar theory, jazz, rock, classical and bass-$25/hr., less if low income. Owner studied jazz and classical music, and MBA Entertainment Business at the University of Miami, Fl. for five years and recently finished a classical guitar degree in 2009. Bio: I grew up cutting my teeth on Hendrix ( I had over 30 legit and bootleg albums) and then found Chick Corea's Return to Forever group in 1973. I was 19 and it was a little over my head. Now I can play it as long as I practice hard. I am kind of like Pat Metheny in that respect. Then came hearing Miles, John McLaughlin and three years of Studio Music & Jazz education at the University of Miami, Fl., undergradute, and an MBA in the Entertainment Industry 2000. I have played with some notables including Rob Chiarelli-engineer/mix artist(Madonna, Will Smith MIB's, Ray Charles and many more)google him, and Dag Kolsrud of Norway's AHA (google him). Dag was talented enough to play with the Dregs. Also, Graham Hawthorne-Blood Sweat & Tears in the '80's played on a session. He now plays drums with Paul Simon, he is killer. Other aquantances are Andy Snitzer who plays sax for the Stones ( His jazz cd's are on CBS ) and a friend of Dag's, guitarist Tim Mitchell ( he took my place in Rob's & my group, Inferno, at UM). Tim has written Grammy award winning songs for Shakira. I still have the 24 trk. master tapes of my UM studio bands which I will transfer to Pro Tools soon and master. I had one session set up with the great bassist Steve Bailey '82,and his friend, drummer Rob Cargell. He read this ultra fast bass line based mostly on a diminished three octave melody, first time through. Unfortunately our recording session was cancelled. One of my jazz guitar teachers, (google) Stan Samole (check out his CD's, he is so gifted). He plays a lot like McLaughlin during the Shakti era, he plays effortlessy and with great feeling, he taught Pat Metheny (who taught at Miami in the 70's), Steve Morse, Hiram Bullock, Peter Harris of Bruce Hornsby and the Range (All UM), and many more including Randy Johnston who plays/records with Rufus Reid and vice versa. Randy is a deep thinker who ponders -onion dip circling an eliptical planet in the Alpha-Centaury quadrant. This guy's playing is scary! Randal Dollahon taught John Hart of the Miami Sound Machine and turned out many more monsters. Check John out on his CD's, He blows away John Scoefield big time. Guitarist Andy Timmons is a UM grad. Also Matchbox 20 are alums. I had the pleasure of doing a session with a great saxophonist, Paul Anderson, who later went on to play with major big bands. Guitarists Noah Herschman and Mike Locke played on "The Ancient" which a new version is out on the next CD. Noah has played on many hit records in New York. There were others who went on to becoming well known who helped me record my music in 1981 and 1982 at UM. One semester my roommate was bassist Steve Pronk who later went to play with Chuck Mangione in 1983. In 1981 Howie Zandman CPA, of Atlanta and Philadelphia, offered me a chance for an artist management contract. I filled out about 15 pages of questions. He was the CPA for The WHO and his friend, Dr. Fred Birnbaum of Philadelphia who was my student and introduced me to him, told me YES also. When Keith Moon drove the car into the pool in Vegas, Fred said Howie wrote the check to get it out. About that time I got a letter from UM offering lender of last resort if turned down for financial aid. I took that and met all these great guys mentioned earlier. My group Inferno with Rob, Ed Mongillo, Laz Hernandez (Laz's Dad played congas for Dizzy Gillespie), We approached Howie in 1982 but he had left the biz because of problems with an up and coming group of his, but he offered any help needed. I had to leave the group to work a regular job then I came home the next year after an Financial Aid snafu. I met John Curtis, former manager of the Dregs, in 1985 and we paled around a short while and recorded a gospel group with great potential. Meeting John was a trip. I was sitting in at a blues club when John walked in as I set up. He asked, I thought in a smart way, "Can you play that guitar?" I said, "Listen and you tell me." Well he had a few drinks and I just ignored him. After the set he said I would like to buy you a drink. I said, "Ok, how 'bout a coke." A coke?" he asked..... He said do you know who I am. I said Yes, you told me John Curtis. "That's right", he said. This went on a few times. Then I had a epiphany and said!!! "You're John Curtis". "That's right, thats what I've been trying to tell you son" he said. Well the next week he dragged me out of Surrey Tavern in Augusta, GA to go next door to a new club being remodeled. He said he wanted me play for his friend the owner, Bobby Campbell. He said just play anything. I got on stage and played a long, long version of something like the song here "Swords of Fire". Bobby asked him what the hell was that as I reached the bar. John said, "I don't know Bobby..., but only him and God knows!". John went on to be VP of Capricorn A&R in Nashville and signed Wide Spread Panic among others. Before that he sold pre-owned tennis shoes on Hilton Head and Kiwi farmed with Dave Loggins. There's more later. Rock DJ Mike Dineen (NY,NY to Southern stations)in 1991 (old tapes) said that, "Mike sounds like a wired Eric Johnson." In 1994 I had shock therapy for depression and that erased my guitar knowledge. For five years I did not touch a guitar, it was alien. Then in 1999, Kinch O'Kaine, a UM guitar instructor, unbeknownst to him, gave me exercises to do, to start to rebuild my motor skills. In 2002 John Norris and I had a #1 hit on MP3.com. It was for the instrumental rock tune, But For Grace. We had many in the top 100. That was even before I knew what real mastering was. We were lucky. More later...