Rochester's DIY Studio

Canadaway Records is a hybrid digital/analog studio located in Rochester’s historic 19th Ward district. Available for overdubs/sweetening and mixing of previously-recorded music as well as limited live tracking, the studio provides a comfortable and well-appointed environment to foster creativity and provide options not always available to the home recorder while remaining affordable and accessible to all with a goal to achieve.

Owner/engineer Ben Baker (they/them) — with a long history of recording music in non-traditional spaces and with non-traditional people — is prepared to work with you creatively and collaboratively to help realize your vision.

Gear is also available for remote work: we can come to you and record in your space, rehearsal room, or capture live shows in full multitrack for mixing and further attention back at HQ. Contact us today!

Cats on premises

No pills, no needles, no bigots

Canadaway Record's owner/engineer Ben Baker riding the faders

Rates

Studio and equipment

Tracking

  • $35/hour in-house
  • $50/hour remote
  • Rates include an end-of-day “tracking mix”

Mixing

  • $35/song if recorded/previously worked on/already familiar in-house
  • $50/song for mixing-only of tracks recorded elsewhere
  • Rates include 3 revisions per song

Partial Gear List

Recording / Outboard

  • Ramasa 8616 recording console
  • TASCAM converters
  • Kali LP6 monitors
  • Auratone / Harmon-Kardon monitoring
  • ART Pro VLA compressor (stereo)
  • Ashly Audio CL52E compressor (stereo)
  • DBX 163X compressor (stereo)
  • DBX 166 compressor (stereo)
  • FMR Really Nice Compressor (stereo)
  • Death By Audio Vocal Master delay
  • Digital delays / reverbs
  • Hardware spring reverbs
  • “Winterverb” harmonic reverb
  • Guitar effects collection

Instruments

  • Guitars, basses
  • Ukeleles, mandolins & stringed instruments
  • Brass instruments
  • Hammond L-Series organ
  • Moog Werkstatt-01 synthesizer
  • Stylophone theremin
  • Toy piano & keyboard collections
  • Gretsch Catalina Maple drum kit
  • Vintage Ludwig Acrolite snare
  • Zildjian / Bosphorus cymbals
  • Aux percussion / bells

Amplifiers

  • Yamaha G100 (head)
  • Epiphone Valve Jr (volume/tone mods)
  • Fender Tonemaster Twin Reverb
  • Vintage tube amp conversion (radio head)
  • Pignose 7-100
  • Orange Terror Stamp
  • Ampeg SB12 (head & cabinet)
  • Yamaha B50
  • 1x12 and 4x10 cabinets

Some Samples of Our Work