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October 6, 2009  
A shot of YPOM Digitals movable control room just after assembly at Ken Banwart's Yoga Studio office area
 
 
 
 

 
March 08

Your Place or Mine Digital Schedule is firmed up for April and May

Your Place or Mine Digital Recording  and Mastering Services is presently in Middle Tennessee through the end of March. YPOM Digital Recording Services will be in the Chattanooga Tennessee area for most of the month of April producing a twelve song album project for Daniel Parkin's first solo CD release. We currently have May blocked out for the production of songwriter, fiddler, mandolinist, guitarist virtuoso Billy Ward for production of his upcoming Solo Album Project. Billy acted in some scenes including the Bluegrass Jam Scene linked below in Debra Granik's Sundance 2010 Grand Jury Prize for Drama Winning film, 'Winter's Bone.' Production of Billy's album project is scheduled for production at My Place: currently in my dearly departed and very much missed grandmother 'Louise's' house in scenic Mount Pleasant, Tennessee. This is the same house I was raised in as a child in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee. I am thrilled to be doing what I love most, acoustic string music production, in this fine old house. It's good to get to work where my music roots were originally gifted to me all those years ago. Thanks mom, grandmother, great-grandmother and all my friends, mentors, teachers and associates throughout the years. I would not be here without each and every one of you! Thank you all! May history and music's oral tradition live on through us all!

 

Look close and you'll get a glimpse of Billy Ward on his beloved fiddle in this scene from Winter's Bone. If you don't see the link here go to YPOM Digital's Home Page at http://yourplaceorminedigital.com



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March 02

Unmet expectations at Berlinale

From Free Online Library

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...Best of the lot though was Debra Granik's Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner "Winter's Bone," a riveting, stark saga of a 17-year-old girl searching for her missing father in southern Missouri while caring for her ill mother and two young siblings. Gripping from start to finish, "Winter's Bone" is a detailed, greatly realistic portrait of a place and people living the American nightmare. A surefire early contender for next year's Academy Awards.



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Talking about Headliners announced for Old Time Music, Ozark Heritage Festival - Missouri State University

  Here is a quote from the intro to an announcement from Missouri State University about the Ozark Heritage Festival to be held in June that will include musicians that played on the film soundtrack for Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini's breakout feature film 'Winter's Bone.' The film took the Grand Jury Prize for Drama at Sundance 2010 and will be theatrically released in the US on June 11th the week prior to the Ozark Heritage Festival. To read the complete announcement go HERE. Your Place or Mine Digital produced Dirt Road Delight's performance of Daniel Parkin's song 'Palm of His Hand' that received a featured performance within the body of the film. That song and all the original songs on Dirt Road Delight's Debut Album are published and produced by Your Place or Mine Digital Music, BMI.  Dirt Road Delight's Debut Album was recorded, mixed and mastered on location at Bobby Don Bloodworth's Old Indian Cabin and Ken Banwart's Yin Yoga Studio in the mountains of North Georgia. I am proud and thankful and delighted that Your Place or Mine Digital received the opportunity to play a part in the production of Dirt Road Delight's music. To hear that music and learn more about Dirt Road Delight please visit Dirt Road Delight HERE.

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Headliners announced for Old Time Music, Ozark Heritage Festival

Headliners announced for Old Time Music, Ozark Heritage Festival Date: March 1, 2010Contact: Kathleen Morrissey, CoordinatorTheatre and EventsUniversity/Community Programs Department417-255-7966 WEST PLAINS, Mo. – The four featured headliners for the 16th annual Old-Time Music, Ozark Heritage Festival will represent a wide variety of styles within American roots music. The festival will take place 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. June 18 and 19 on and around Court Square in West Plains. Admission is free. Featured performers include Jay Farrar of St. Louis, the Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys band, The Gordons from the state of Illinois, and the traditional musicians featured in the 2010 film “Winter’s Bone” or its soundtrack. The film is based on a book written by West Plains resident Daniel Woodrell. Each performer has strong ties to the Missouri Ozarks, and all have been influenced by musical traditions of this region, said local folklorist and festival committee member Matt Meacham, West Plains...



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February 19

Talking about here & now › mono.blog

Here's a little something below I just ran across in a blog written by someone at mono.blog by mono.kultur magazine attending the Berlin Film Festival where Winter's Bone is currently screening. Your Place or Mine Digital Recording recorded and produced Dirt Road Delight's performance of Daniel Parkin's tune 'Palm of His Hand' on location at Bobby Don Bloodworth's Old Indian Cabin in the Appalachian Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia in September of 2009. The final mix and master was completed on location at Ken Banwart's Yoga Studio in Cherry Log Georgia. While in the Ozarks visiting her grandmother with her friend and DRD fiddle player Billy Ward, Tedi May directed film director Debra Granik to the band's web site where Debra heard 'Palm of His Hand' and immediately decided she wanted to include it as a 'featured vocal performance' in her film. Billy also played fiddle on the movie soundtrack and had some acting parts in the film which is how he met Debra Granik and how Dirt Road Delight's recording of 'Palm of His Hand' got heard by Debra and made it into her film. Your Place of Mine Digital Music is proud to be the publisher and producer of this song and the entire Dirt Road Delight Debut Album collection which can be heard at http://dirtroaddelight.bandcamp.com/. To learn more about Dirt Road Delight go to http://www.dirtroaddelight.com/.

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I rarely manage to take advantage of Berlin’s brilliant film festival Berlinale as much as I’d like to, but accidentally stumbled onto a real cinematic gem last night: Debra Granik’s independent feature Winter’s Bone was everything one could hope for when going to a screening based on the four line-description of the festival guide. A bleak, intense descent into trailer trash country in the South of the USA, the film is focused on a 17-year-old girl taking care of her younger siblings after her criminal father goes missing. With a pending law order that threatens to oust the struggling family from their home, the girl has to stir up a violent and tight-knitted community in order to force her father to turn up, dead or alive. With a mesmerizing Jennifer Lawrence as the center of this intense drama, Winter’s Bone has recently scooped the Grand Jury Prize and the award for best screenplay at the Sundance Film Festival, and rightly so.

See the original blog here: http://mono-blog.com/2010/02/double-feature-01-winters-bone/

'Winter's Bone' is Opening in USA Theaters - Friday, June 11th, 2010



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February 09

Winter's Bone Picked Up For International Sales

February 9, 2010 - Congratulations once again to Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini and the entire 'Winter's Bone' team for the 'Winter's Bone' film being picked up for International Sales by Fortissimo Films. The film is also an Official Selection showing at the 60th Annual Berlin Film Festival starting in a few days and at SXSW in Austin in the not too distant future. Way to go 'Winter's Bone' team.



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February 06

The County Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Wow, I just spent a few hours in the County Music Hall of Fame and Museum and was blown away. As I entered the top floor and started walking down the length of the first balcony of displays I could not help but notice people who I either worked directly with or might have been a fly on the wall in their workspace as a studio tech. Back in the day I was the technical engineer at many studios in Nashville including the late Buddy Killen's Soundshop and Tree Studios, Masterfonics, Norbert Putnam's Bennett House, Denny's Den, Spotland Productions, Archer Productions, and Blevins Audio who sent me to studios all over the country. At Denny's Den I was the Chief Engineer, The Technical Engineer and The Publishing Assistant all wrapped up into one for just over a decade. The list I'm showing here only included people I might have been around long enough to interact with in some way that are shown in displays around the museum and a few Hall of Fame Members I was honored to work with in one way of another. I got to sit down and have conversations with a few. I got to help solve some technical issue for a few.

  1. Sarah 'Minnie Pearl' Cannon - I got to hang out and just converse with her as I was setting up a telephone feed for an interview she was doing up in my boss's office over at Tree International. My boss was Buddy Killen.
  1. Dolly Parton - I got a hug from Dolly at Soundshop Recording Studios at the Sound Track Release Party for 'Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.' I synched the Studer A800 analog 24-Track to the video equipment for the string overdubs we recorded for the movie.
  1. Bill Monroe - I got to briefly say hello to him at a ROPE performance he played at the Starlight Club. I also used to speak to him as we passed each other in the Madison Phar-Mor if he wasn't surrounded by the ladies back in the day.
  1. Jerry Lee Lewis - I actually kinda passed out at Jerry Lee's table down in Tampa Florida one time back during the early 70's when I was down there with a group of my buddies hanging dry wall trying to make enough money to purchase a PA system so we could take our Top 40 band on the road.
  1. Marty Robbins - I got to work around Marty several times - a few times at his studio he put into the old Union Hall on Division, but most notably at the Soundshop. I was there the week Marty passed away. He had been overdubbing vocals in Soundshop's B studio for his next album release and his voice was as good as it's ever been - he was sounding great! And he was in a great story telling mood and would tell war stories in the studio lounge when he took breaks. Then bam, we come in the day after and Marty was gone and get quite a shock after seeing and hearing him in what appeared to be top form.  You can take nothing for granted!
  1. Buck Owens - Buck did a lot of things with Tree and Buddy Killen so I got to be around Buck from time to time at different business functions - catalog deal parties, stuff like that.
  1. Merle Haggard - Merle came into Masterfonics' when he was working with Jimmy Bowen back in those days - during his crushed velour jumpsuit stage. I'd see him in the hallways over there.
  1. Chet Adkins - You would see Chet all over town it seems, but I was around him most when I was tech at The Soundshop and Chet came in to do some recording with his pal Garrison Keillor and the occasional tech work on his home studio for Blevins Audio when he lived over off Tyne Blvd.
  1. Jimmy Dean - Jimmy Dean used to work at Soundshop a lot with Buddy Killen. I loved to watch them in Studio B bickering about their stocks as the ticker went by on the TV in the center of the Main Monitors soffit. They were funny together.
  1. Johnny Cash - I got to be around Mr. Cash mostly at Spotland Productions and Archer Productions. He would come in to do voice overs for radio commercials or to read 'books on cassette' copy.
  1. Porter Wagoner - I got to be around Porter from time to time over at Fireside - his old studio with the 'Passion Pit' up the spiral staircase just outside the control room. That was back when Doyle Grisham (Buffet's regular steel player) was his chief engineer.
  1. Hank Williams, Jr. - Hank was at The Soundshop singing some NFL 'Are you ready for some football' jingles and was the first mix done in Masterfonics' 20Hz Tom Hidley Mix Room. And I'd see him in other places too.
  1. Bill Denny - Mr. Denny taught my Music Publishing class at Belmont.
  1. Waylon Jennings - I used to do tech work at Waylon's studio on 16th that had the old MCI JH-400 black console with the red knobs - plus I'd see him other placed from time to time as well.
  1. Emmylou Harris - Emmylou came into the 20Hz Mix Room at Masterfonics and overdubbed vocals singing in the control room with us all wearing headphones as she sang. We did not build an iso booth to go with the Mix Room, but with the machine room separated by sound doors and walls and sitting on it's own floating slab the control room was the quietest room in the house so it became the vocal booth and control room that night. It worked well too.
  1. Conway Twitty - Conway used to show up at Masterfonics from time to time plus I would sometimes run across him out at Twitty City when I was out there doing some tech work in some of the auditoriums.

 

  1. John Hartford - I saw John everywhere. With Emmylou at Masterfonics, at Denny's Den, at Soundshop - Pandora Denny, Bobby Don Bloodworth and I sat down and had a long conversation with John down in the lobby of the Executive Inn in Owensboro an an IBMA convention back in the day they held them all there.
  1. Alison Krauss - I remember being around Alison a little bit when Bil VornDick was working with her some at Denny's Den.
  1. Ricky Skaggs - I got to be around Ricky at the Soundshop several times when he had sessions there.
  1. Ralph Emery - I went to church with him at Woodmont for a while and would see him at Spotland and Archer productions for voice over work from time to time.
  1. Tom T Hall - I played in Rick Shipp's band Three Way Split warming him up for a show at the Pickin Parlor on 2nd when Billy Carter was there in the audience and in town to introduce 'Billy Beer.' Yeah - that was more than a few weeks ago.
  1. George Morgan - John E. Denny introduced me to George at RV campground next to Opryland during Fan Fair one time, and I saw George at the few ROPE meetings I got to go with when I was at Denny Music Group.
  1. Felice Bryant - John Denny took Pandora, Bobby Don Bloodworth and myself to Felice's home in Gatlinburg for a Denny Music Group retreat in the mountains.
  1. Barbara Mandrell - I worked around Barbara a few times, the most interactive time probably being when I went into to help them clean up the headphone audio for some vocal overdubs she was singing with Lee Greenwood in Studio B at the Soundshop.
  1. Harland Howard - Harland was around Tree a lot back in the day when I was around Tree a lot so we were always stumbling over one another in the dub rooms and studios. He had some great tales.
  1. Little Jimmy Dickens - Little Jimmy used to come over by the Denny's home and studio from time to time.
  1. Bill Anderson - Whispering Bill used to do quite a few voice overs at Spotland Productions back when Gene Clark had Spotland over on 12th Ave - I got to listen to Bill telling tales in the lounge there when he was waiting to go back to the studios to work.
  1. Mel Tillis - Mel was in Soundshop Studio A doing vocal overdubs with Billy Strange producing him back in 1982 when I was just getting ready to start working there as their Audio Maintenance Engineer.
  1. Tanya Tucker - Tanya worked at the Soundshop a few times with Glen Campbell - I think I remember Ernie Winfree engineering those sessions.
  1. Pam Tillis - I was around Pam a little for a while when she was doing a single at 'Sam's Pizza Place' in Hillsborough Village when I was playing drums there with 'Fresh Air Band' - that would have been in the early to mid 70's.
  1. Ronnie Milsap - Milsap's studio was one house away from Masterfonics so we would end up helping each other out from time to time like when we had to sync our Otari 32-trk digital to Ronnie's to edit a tape and we had the only two or those machines in existence at the time.

   32.   Doc Watson - Doc used to do a lot of sessions at Soundshop and The Bennett House.

 

And that's about all I can remember at this particular moment. I did not intend to stay up this late working on this but once I got started I started having some fun reminiscing about all those days. At the time I didn't really think about who I was around when I was working on keeping the studios running or recording or whatever. After walking through the County Music Hall of Fame I realized how blessed I'd been to get to share a little time with some very interesting and historical people. And that's just the people I saw mentioned in the exhibits at the museum. There are ton's more I've worked around that will probably show up in there eventually that are not there yet. I need to check out the Musician's Hall of Fame next - I got to cart gear for and be around some of the really great picker's back then too including Larrie London, Brent Mason, Farrell Morris and everybody that used Picker's Pickup back in 79 to 81. I am humbled by it all. I am thankful for everyone I've ever had the pleasure of working around back then. now and in the future! I was truly taken back by the number of actual Hall of Fame Members I've had the honor to share some time with.

Education and Inspiration are what I was hoping for when I started the trip and I got that and so much more! Thanks all for the memories and bless you all and all your descendents.



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January 30

Winter's Bone takes Top Prizes for Drama and Screenwriters

Your Place or Mine Digital Music, BMI is proud to have a segment of Dirt Road Delight's recording of Daniel Lee Parkin's original song 'Palm of His Hand' included in Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini's screenplay adaptation of Daniel Woodrell's novel 'Winter's Bone.' Directed by Debra Granik 'Winter's Bone' premiered January 23rd at Sundance Film Festival 2010 and has been nominated for the Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic Competition. Good Luck to Debra and the entire 'Winter's Bone' team!

Check out this scene from Winter's Bone. If you look close you will see Dirt Road Delight's fiddle virtuoso Billy Ward playing on his cherished instrument. The reviews are starting to roll in and Winter's Bone is starting to look like a break out hit at Sundance Twentyten.

January 30, 2007 - Congratulations to Screenwriters' Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini for receiving the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for their adaptation of Daniel Woodrell's novel for the film directed by Debra Granik, Produced by Anne Rosellini and the winner of Grand Jury Prize for Drama at Sundance 2010.

Hear and download Dirt Road Delight's Debut Album MP3's at www.dirtroaddelight.com



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January 18

A segment of Dirt Road Delight's recording included in 'Winter's Bone' film premiers at Sundance Film Festival 2010

Your Place or Mine Digital Music, BMI is proud to have a segment of Dirt Road Delight's recording of Daniel Lee Parkin's original song 'Palm of His Hand' included in Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini's screenplay adaptation of Daniel Woodrell's novel 'Winter's Bone.' Directed by Debra Granik 'Winter's Bone' premiers the end of this month at Sundance Film Festival 2010 and has been nominated for the Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic Competition. Good Luck to Debra and the entire 'Winter's Bone' team!



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January 17

Way Back When
1966_HLHS_Concert_Band I just spent the evening with my one of my oldest musician friends from back in the High School days at Hay Long High in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee - Jim Hutcheson. He just sent me this picture which is the concert band from 1966 at good old Hay Long. That's me standing in the middle of the back row in the drum section. Jim is seated in the trumpet section behind the French Horns on the right side. Jim and I played in each other's first combo about four years prior to this photo.  Besides playing trumpet in the HS band Jim also did and still does play guitar and sings. The school and the gym this picture was taken in no longer exists. Jim lives in the same house as back then - across the street from where the old high school once stood. The only two buildings left from when the school occupied the entire block is what was the Science and FFA building, and the last structure built as part of the school, the band building which is now a Mason's lodge. Where the gym, cafeteria, and school building once stood is now single family homes. My grandmother's old house is two houses away from Jim's house. We reminisced about how even though we literally lived across the street from the school we were usually late for school. I normally did not get out of bed till I heard the first bell ring - the signal that I had 15-minutes to get dressed and across the street to start classes. I was a ninth grader in this picture. Hay Long High had about 500 total students at the time including the seventh and eight grades - there were no middle schools back in those days. Not a bad sized band for such a small school. But yes, music has always been an important part of my life. By the time this picture was taken I had been playing drums for ten years and guitar for four years. I hit many detours along the path to today but I've always migrated back to the performance end of music. I love recording and mixing and mastering but not near as much as playing music with other musicians. I am grateful and blessed any time I get to share playing some music with other musicians, and still getting to pick with some of the folks in this picture once again is an unexpected and much appreciated blessing.

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January 12

I Am Grateful

I am grateful for all the events, good and bad, that have led me to this day in my life. Without those events and their inherent lessons we would not be here. Each event in life teaches some lesson. And one's life is built on these lessons. Some of us are slow learners like myself. For many of us lots of life's lessons have been hard learned and hard earned. But I'm still trying to learn and earn the wisdom of life's lessons. Lessons learned come from multitudes of sources - more sources these days than ever it seems. The Internet, television, radio, school, work, family, friends, strangers, good people, not so good people, people with good intentions, people with bad intentions, people with no intentions, bosses, employees, cats, dogs, horses, fish, rocks, the sun, the sky, trees, dirt, dust, smoke, fire, air, water and on and on and on. What is life but one big continuous lesson. The Information Age seems like it may provide too much information at times. Sifting though it to find what's really meaningful can be a daunting task. I am grateful for all the lessons that have been, continue to be and are yet to come. Human existence is after all a continuous series of lessons from cradle to grave. We can learn from those lessons and continue to grow. Being positive in the face of hard lessons is difficult. We are all brought into this world without asking and spend much of our lives asking why - looking to the past for answers. I am just now learning we should actually be asking why not - looking to provide answers for a better future. The past is where it is and that's where we should leave it. Like I said, I am a slow learner. But that's what keeps me going - the desire to learn and to do better. I want to contribute to the happiness and success of others - I have always been that way. I've always been most satisfied when I see my friends successful and happy. Friendship is a precious commodity and sometimes difficult to hold on to - something to be cherished when we are fortunate enough to obtain it. In the grand scheme of things one's present life is but a tiny blip on the radar - a short flash in the middle of time between past and future, as is our entire life span in the grand scheme of things. The present is the only place we can and do live. Dwelling on the bad things in the past does not help us build any kind of positive future. It warps our perspective and creates barriers to happiness and success. Negative energy draws more negative energy. Dwelling on a positive future seems like a much better alternative - positive energy draws more positive energy. I've had the great fortune over my life to work in many different and interesting occupations and to be surrounded and taught by many interesting and intelligent individuals. I've always been impressed by honesty and forthrightness and try to live my life focused on those those principles. The twelve points of the Scout Law I learned as an adult leader when I went through the Scouting program with my son is still something I find worth aspiring to - trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent are twelve points that helped keep me balanced during an extremely difficult chapter of life and still provides me with a guidepost worth trying to live by. As I move forward into the future grateful for all the events that led me here I want to send forth only positive energy into the future of this Universe. As they say, 'It's better to light a single candle than to curse the dark.'  I am grateful. Peace and Love, Over and Out!



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January 07

Snow in Middle Tennessee

<KENOX S730  / Samsung S730>  Well there's snow in Mount Pleasant today. I know we must have gotten at least 1/8th of an inch. Guess I'll go out and brave the elements to pick up a print cartridge. Good old HP won't let me just default to the black cartridge for some reason, and the black cartridge still has 75% of it's ink. Go figure! Oh well - it's on to hill and dale and the office supply store for a new color cartridge. I'll be glad when I can get the office work out of the way so I can start putting down some scratch tracks for the new project. I have the control room set up in the living room on Meadow Road and it feels very comfortable. I know it's freezing in my late grandmother's old house today so I'm quite happy to be here where the heat works good. I'm sending out as much positive vibe as I can muster and am counting on that energy to manifest into something good. Part of this year's new plan is to stay positive and concentrate on the good in everything. The past is where it is and it will stay there no matter what any of us do - no need to dwell on it. The only thing we can change is the future, and the only way to change the future for the good is to concentrate our energies on the good and leave the past in the past. For today happiness is a new ink cartridge so I can get I can get some Sync contracts in the mail - one of my writer's songs and a performance I recorded, mixed and mastered by Dirt Road Delight have a featured part in a movie being shown at the Sundance Film Festival the end of this month - more on that later. Positive Vibes - that's what I say! Peace Out ~

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Ready to Record on Meadow Road!



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January 06

It's A New Year

I just set the studio up at home base in Mount Pleasant and am about to get started on a personal project aimed towards creating something useful to help get the new year off on a positive note. I'd like to thank my solitary blog reader of the last 30 days for reminding me I need to stay positive. In that spirit I'm starting a project that I hope will benefit a cause very near and dear to my heart. More on that later.



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December 31

Maybe 2010 will be a little better

Absolutely!



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December 02

2010 Rates Available Now

Professional Digital Audio Production Anywhere

From Tracks to CD-A Redbook Standard MASTERS on location

2010 Rate Sheet

YourPlaceOrMineDigital

Basic digital recording and mixing service rates:

Record / Mix / Edit $ 25.00 per hour

or $225.00 per song with mastering (not to exceed 12-hours)

or $200.00 per song without mastering (not to exceed 10-hours)

Includes one mix and/or master disc at no additional charge.

Optional services:

Additional basic mix disc copies $ 10.00 each

CD-A Redbook Mastering $50.00 per hour with client present

or $ 25.00 per song without client present but pending client final approval

Digital Editing $ 25.00 per hour

MP3 conversions $ 5.00 per song

Additional CD-A Redbook Standard Duplication Master Disc $ 50.00 each

Detailed Master duplication report of disc contents/timings included

Audio Restoration Services $25.00 per hour 

DVD Authoring/Archival Services $25.00 per hour

YPOM Digital Archives all projects on external HD and Blu-Ray  for a period of at least one year at no additional charge.

Back up copies of all tracks, mixes and masters available on any digital format you choose.

Basic charge of $50 plus cost of storage media. (DVD, Blu-Ray, Flash Drive, External HD, etc.)

A nominal negotiable deposit required for jobs outside of Middle Tennessee.

Weekly balances due at Friday of each week for long term projects exceeding one week.

Remaining balance due at delivery of finished and approved mix and/or master.

All Final Mixes and/or Masters Property of Client.

YPOM Digital reserves the right to use portions of finished masters for demonstration purposes only.

Accommodations must be provided by location recording client.

I promise to leave no trace and to respect your space.

References available.

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November 16

Announcing the YPOM DIGITAL YOUR PLACE MUSICAL Stimulus Package

If you are located in the Middle Tennessee area (Nashville, Pegram, Culleoka, Mt. Pleasant, etc.) Your Place or Mine Digital will come to your location, set up and tear down with NO Studio Setup/Teardown fee (a $500 value) and NO Travel charges (normally $1 per mile one-way) and record, mix, edit and master a minimum of 4 songs at a per song price of only $250 each. You supply the songs, the talent and the location and YPOM Digital supplies the studio, microphones, recording, overdubs, digital editing, mixdowns, Redbook Standard CD-A Mastering, infinite patience and production assistance ON LOCATION at YOUR PLACE. All we need is an 8x8 climate controlled area to set up the control room and 120Vac. A deposit of half the package cost with the balance due upon delivery of the CD-A Redbook Standard Master approved by YOU is all you need to get started. You are the boss, the producer, the talent and YOU completely own your own finished MASTER to use as you please. The same deal is available worldwide but outside of Middle Tennessee you must provide reasonable travel expenses, food and lodging. For a sample of YPOM's location end-to-end production services check out Dirt Road Delight's album just completed on location in North Georgia at www.dirtroaddelight.com. Contact DRD for references and ask them about their satisfaction. We specialize in recording vocal and acoustic music but can do full bands including drums and electronics. You provide the talent, we provide the know how! Now's the time to book that CD project you've been putting off because you just can't afford to go to a major recording center to get it done! We bring the studio TO YOU! Produce your own music comfortably and professionally with Your Place or Mine Digital Recording, Mixing and Mastering services at Your Place or At Mine.

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Here's the studio set up currently at My Place in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee. The 12' ceilings are great for low end frequencies in my late grandmother's historic old home.



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November 06

YOUR PLACE MUSICAL Stimulus Package

Announcing the YPOM DIGITAL YOUR PLACE MUSICAL Stimulus Package

If you are located in the Middle Tennessee area (Nashville, Pegram, Culleoka, Mt. Pleasant, etc.) Your Place or Mine Digital will come to your location, set up and tear down with NO Studio Setup/Teardown fee (a $500 value) and NO Travel charges (normally $1 per mile one-way) and record, mix, edit and master a minimum of 4 songs at a per song price of only $250 each. You supply the songs, the talent and the location and YPOM Digital supplies the studio, microphones, recording, overdubs, digital editing, mixdowns, Redbook Standard CD-A Mastering, infinite patience and production assistance ON LOCATION at YOUR PLACE. All we need is an 8x8 climate controlled area to set up the control room and 120Vac. A deposit of half the package cost with the balance due upon delivery of the CD-A Redbook Standard Master approved by YOU is all you need to get started. You are the boss, the producer, the talent and YOU completely own your own finished MASTER to use as you please. The same deal is available worldwide but outside of Middle Tennessee you must provide reasonable travel expenses, food and lodging. For a sample of YPOM's location end-to-end production services check out Dirt Road Delight's music just completed on location in North Georgia at www.dirtroaddelight.com. Contact DRD for references and ask them about their satisfaction. We specialize in recording vocal and acoustic music but can do full bands including drums and electronics. You provide the talent, we provide the know how! Now's the time to book that CD project you've been putting off because you just can't afford to go to a major recording center to get it done! We bring the studio TO YOU!



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October 30

YPOM is ON the Road Again

Your Place or Mine Digital Recording Services is currently on the road and back near the old home office in Middle Tennessee for some much needed rest and relaxation after completing the recording,  mix and mastering of Dirt Road Delights CD and MP3's. Almost two months to the day since we started cutting the scratch tracks. A Redbook Standard Master and Dupe Timings Report and complimentary First Gen Master Copy was delivered to Tedi and Billy at Ken Banwart's Yoga Class the past Thursday. Check out DRD's blog at www.dirtroaddelight.com Thank you Ken for your gracious hospitality in a beautiful setting. The serenity and beauty of your home shines through in Dirt Road Delights mixes and finished Master. I am eternally grateful to you and to Bobby Don Bloodworth who's Old Indian cabin gave the final tracks a uniquely Appalachian character - after all it is Appalachian Soul Music



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October 29

Dirt Road Delight Master Delivers Today

Production comes to an end on the Dirt Road Delight CD project. Tedi May will pick up the final master of the CD at Ken Banwart's Yoga Studio in Cherry Log, Georgia at Ken's Yoga class tonight. YPOM Digital wishes to thank Ken for the use of his facility and his outstanding hospitality. And YPOM Digital also wishes to thank Bobby Don Bloodworth for the use of his 200+ year old Indian cabin in Swan, Georgia right on the Toccoa River. The help and support of Ken and Bobby Don helped make this project a success. Thank you guys! And thank you Tedi May, Daniel Parkin and Billy Ward for all your contributions. Peace and Love - and good luck in all you do as you move forward!



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October 09

Writers for Dirt Road Delight's debut album sign with Your Place or Mine Digital Music, BMI

Tedi May and Daniel Parkin sign

Publishing Agreements with

Your Place or Mine Digital Music

founder and producer Ric Landers

at The Lilly Pad on Oct. 2, 2009

October 6, 2009

Barry Ross signs Publishing Agreement with

Your Place or Mine Digital Music

founder Ric Landers for a tune titled 'Stone Heart'

to be included with the YPOM Digital release

of Dirt Road Delight's debut digital album.

The signing took place at the regular

Tuesday night acoustic jam held at

Mark and Pam Huff's home in Blue Ridge, Georgia



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September 15

Dirt Road Delight Overdub Sessions Continue Tomorrow

Production resumes tomorrow on the Dirt Road Delight self-named debut CD project tomorrow. Next up are Tedi May's lead and harmony vocals. Then on to record Daniel Parkin's harmony parts for Tedi's songs. After these vocals are recorded we have all the tracks for a dozen songs including nine cuts written by Tedi and/or Daniel and one cut written by Tedi and Billy. We are almost ready for the mix/edit/master process to begin in earnest.

 

DRD-at-the-Still



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Your Place or Mine Video Blog Archive

 
August 26, 2009
 
 
 
Here's my next installment of Jam with Ric - this time on an
Old Time tune called Swallowtail Jig. I do these things in
one take with warts and all, but I think they are improving
a little the longer I play. I've only be seriously playing this
instrument for about three years - I've owned a mandolin
for about eight years, but it took me five years to get
totally hooked on it.
 
 
 August 12, 2009
 
Here's another little jam-along video I posted on You Tube.
This time I used the Cheeziest Camera and Effects possible.
Feel free to copy and enhance with your own parts.
 
June 4 - 2009
 
This is a little experimental video I posted on You Tube to see if anyone might be interested in starting a virtual jam with me on a really old Public Domain tune called 'Wayfaring Stranger.' I have heard many different versions of this song.  The key I've recorded my part in is Cm - a key that's especially good for playing blues on the mandolin. Please feel free add a part or two and repost - and please send me the link if you do.
 

 
 
April 18, 2009 - YPOM Digital is currently producing CD's containing rough mixes of all original material written by Bobby Don Bloodworth's 7th and 8th grade song writing students at the Fannin County Middle School is beautiful Blue Ridge, Georgia. These rough mixes are being delivered to the students so they can learn the final arrangements to perform at the end of year concert. This is the third year Bobby Don has volunteered his time to offer a unique opportunity for the middle school students in Fannin County. This year's concert includes nine original songs crafted by this year's 7th and 8th grade students. The video below shows the production steps we used in producing Fannin Middle School Student Hunter Darrington's original song, 'Rockstar.' The first verse shows Bobby Don playing and singing the basic track. Following that is me adding a bass part (I did not think to check the camera angle when I decided to sit down so you can't see the guitar, but I promise you, it's there. Next is a cut of me laying down the rock mandolin part where the track morphs into the rough mix we provided to the school for the remainder of the video edits. Pay no attention to the instrument flubs on the rough mix. I'll get all that fixed in the final mix before I master the tunes for the finished mixes we plan on giving to the school and the students.  There could be a CD of all original material from FCMS students in the not too distant future... Stay tuned for more on that later!
 
 

 
 
March 20 - here are a couple of videos from some sessions Your Place or Mine Digital recorded for award winning song writer Tedi May on location in Chief Doublehead's/Wib Kendall's historic chestnut log cabin buit up the hill from the Toccoa River in it's natural state - before it gets dammed in Blue Ridge. The location is beautiful to say the least! This first short video shows me placing microphones as we discuss how to approach the production. Just a little something for those of you that want to know more about what goes on behind the scenes when recording on location. The cleanest tracks are obtained overdubbing all the tracks one at a time, but I do have the capacity to record up to sixteen tracks at 48K/24bits when needed. From acoustic string bands to electronic bands with drums Your Place or Mine has you covered.
 

 
Scatch tracks are a method used in location recording to create the foundation from which all other production values will be added. For Tedi's scratch track we recorded her on Bass and John on Acoustic Guitar. I got good enough isolation with my ST44A directional tube mikes to use John's guitar track with very little bass bleed - no more than can be covered with a little smoke and mirror work. This allowed Tedi to go in and fine tune her bass tracks at a later session and put down a good female lead vocal part. As production continues we will add a male vocal part to her part - Tedi wrote this one to be sung as a duet. We plan to add the male part and harmony parts soon. We will also be adding a fiddle part and maybe a little mandolin. The jury's still out on the tuba part - we may skip that one. Once we get all the components together we will do a mixdown where we automate mutes, levels, sends, returns, everything... Modern technology allows us to carry what required a brick and morter facility to produce in years past in the back of a midsize SUV. It's a whole new world out here. The real trick to a finished professional product is mastering. Mastering is only as good as the mastering engineers reference monitors and mastering software. Wave Lab 6 is an industry standard and when coupled with JBL Room Mode Correction speakers that tune themselves to just about any space constant monitoring can be achieved on the road.
 
 
 
 
March 3, 2009 - I was digging around my hard drive when I rediscovered some video clips I had stashed away from the last sessions we did when I operated the My Place part of the operation from my home on California Avenue in Nashville.  This video was actually shot on September 4, 2008.
 
 
 
Slim working out then punching in a harmony part. The overdub booth is my old living room when I lived on California Avenue in Nashville. You can see some of my portable foam setup in the back ground.
 

 

Here's another part being overdubbed in the living room.

 

 

And here's a snippit of me from behind my mobile console setup doing critical cow bell overdubs. I think we got it on the first take!

 

 
 
Some snippits from Saturday night January 31, 2009 of Bobby Don Bloodworth and The Gopher Broke Band performing at Bordertown Roadhouse in Blue Ridge, Georgia. Bordertown Roadhouse offers a full service restaurant on one side and a live entertainment venue on the other.
 
 
 
 
January 17, 2009 Here are some snippits edited from concert footage of THE SHADES OF GRAY band out of Gwinnett County Georgia (Metro Atlanta) shot by Your Place or Mine Digital at Cooter Brown Emporium in Blairsville, GA. Cooter Brown Emporium is a unique venue being developed by Keith Murphy and his wife Marimar. He has two separate buildings built inside another larger building. One is a 50' style juke joint called Laze Daze at the moment, and the other is an old time Country Store and Museum. This venue offers a unique location to say the least. As you come through the main entrance on your right you see the stage. Behind the stage is a private room available to the entertainers during the gig. To the left of the stage is Cooter's General Store - this store is filled with artifacts from history past collected by Keith and Marimar over the years - lots of things to explore. Farther to the left is The Laze Daze built to replicate a 50's era juke joint complete with juke box, booth, card table and a very nice bar. Laze Daze has screened windows where the occupants can see the concert hall and the stage from inside the structure. Guests have plenty to explore at Cooter Brown Emporium and places right inside the facility for more private and intimate conversations away from the main concert hall area. Keith and Marimar are going to be working on planned improvements to Cooter's during February and will be back on a once monthly home concert schedule till summer when they hope to start doing two events per month. There are lots of nice cabins available in the area for those visiting from out of town. Cooter's is also available to rent for private parties and events. For more information go to http://cooterbrownmusic.com
    
 
 
January 3 and 4 tracking sessions for Bobby Don's tune titled 'The Dam.'  Bobby Don wrote this song some years ago when American leaders broke yet another promise to Native Americans.  After promising to stop desecrating sacred Indian burial grounds American leaders reneged on that promise by flooding some of Native America's most sacred sites in the name of advancing American civilization by constructing the Tellico Dam. 
 
YPOM Digital is proud to play a part in this song's production and release and thanks Bobby Don and Gopher Broke for allowing us to record, mix and master this poignant tune. 'The Dam' will be included with Bobby Don and Gopher Broke's upcoming New Mountain Americana CD release - SOME SUNDAY.  All work will be done right here at Bobby Don's farm in the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia. Bobby Don's property is right on the un-dammed portion of the scenic Toccoa River still running wild as it winds out of the Chattahoochee National Forest.
 
This video starts out with some photos from different angles around the equipment inside the cabin. It shows some of the steps we follow to do professional quality recording in such a space. The scratch track technique is what we choose to use here for a couple of reasons. One - by doing a non-keeper reference track we plan on eventually scrapping we lay the foundation for all the individual parts to follow. In our sessions last weekend we laid a guitar/vocal scratch track. In the cue mix being sent to Bobby Don playing and singing as we record the scratch track we sent a click track count-off that cannot be heard in the video but can be heard in the headphones.  We started this tune at 80-BPM (Beats Per Minute). With the click count at the beginning of the recording everyone who overdubs additional parts will have a solid count to kick off with and a tempo to follow. 
 
Another big reason we choose the scratch track method is to maximize individual track isolation. Since we are in a 200+ year old cabin we do not have the luxury of isolated sound proof rooms as you might find in a well-designed brick and mortar recording studio. The easiest way to circumvent this dilemma is to record each part by itself - perfect isolation achieved in a single room. On top of the scratch track we overdubbed Paul's bass guitar part which happened to be the main part we needed to get since Paul and Tami drove up here to the mountains from Atlanta and were only here for the weekend. We spent the rest of the weekend laying down a guitar/vocal of another song for Tami to learn for the next tune and their next trip to the mountains.
 
Now we have a good bass part to build from.  Next we'll go in and record the remaining instrumentation; banjo acoustic guitar, mandolin, electric guitar, etc.  We also still must ad the vocal parts - lead and harmonies. The beauty of overdubs is we can now go in at any time the musicians are available to add the subsequent parts. By doing one part at a time when we get to the mixdown process we have maximum control over each track - no bleed from other instruments is a beautiful thing when it comes to mixdown. The real trick is teaching live musicians how to use studio techniques. Pro quality recording can be achieved just about anywhere using the scratch track technique - I highly recommend it!
 
 
 

 

December 14, 2008 - Bobby Don Bloodworth and The Gopher Broke Band were featured entertainers along with DJ Contagious and Little Five Points own Feed &amp; Seed Marching Abominables at the 39th Annual Special Citizens of Atlanta Christmas Party. This year was the 19th year in a row that Bobby Don and the band were invited to the event, and they have already been invited for next years celebration. This is a fantastic event held every year for some very appreciative and deserving people.

 

 

November 22, 2008 - Bobby Don Bloodworth and Gopher Broke Band at Copperhead Lodge in Blairsville, Georgia.

 
 
November 15 appearance at the Grand Openings of the Cohutta Seed and Feed Country Store and the Bordertown Roadhouse in Blue Ridge Georgia. This turned into a very unusual stage set up. Rain moved into the area and forced some creative staging to keep the musicians and equipment dry. Check out the video to see what we mean...

This is a little pieced together video blog from last weekend - November 8 & 9, 2008. It contains snippits of video from the Cherry Log Christian Church BBQ, a little bit of the trip back home that night, and a little bit of the vocal and bass overdub sessions we did in the Old Indian Cabin at Bobby Don's farm.
 
 
Today is November 12, 2008. The two videos below are from a couple of weeks ago when I was making the transition from Nashville to Blue Ridge.
 

Video from my last trip to Nashville.

And a tour of the cabin upon my return to Blue Ridge.
 
Oct. 10, 2008 - And now a short snippit of a playback as work on 'Little Star Light Up Blue Ridge Tonight' continues. We're a gittin thar - just a little more work on recording some background vocals and we're ready to mix, master and release - and will be available on the upcoming EP disc for 'Light Up Blue Ridge' this holiday season.
 

 
Here is another short video of the 'Little Star Light Up Blue Ridge Tonight' sessions from inside the historic cabin. This video shows Bobby Don, Jeremy and Jedd doing the final take, listening back and reactions to the acapella introduction to the song.  The cabin's acoustics make the camera's built in mics sound pretty good. Enjoy! More on the YPOM Digital release of this tune as we move along. Mixing and Mastering are the next steps and that will start very soon.  And yes - those are the beautiful green North Georgia mountains throughthe window....
 

 
We've moved the studio from down in the barn to up in the cabin!
Here's Bobby Don going over the parts for his new Christmas song Little Star Light Up Blue Ridge Tonight with Gopher Broke lead guitarist Jedd Dotson and Jedd's bassist son Jeremy in the over 200 year old historic Wib Kendall Cabin built in the indian style by some unknown well to do for the time Cherokee Indian. Wib managed to raise thirteen children in this cabin - eleven of his own and two of his grandchildren. The cabin has great natural sound isolation from the outside world and a perfect natrual reverb time that works nicely with acoustic instruments. Please enjoy this short video showing the guys working out the parts for the overdubs.
 

 
Here's a short video of Bobby Don Bloodworth overdubbing acoustic on his next song for inclusion with his next CD release, 'Some Sunday,' featuring The GopherBroke Band.
 

 
Here's a homemade video of Slim Stephenson's 'Jerks Behind The Wheel.'  'Jerks Behind The Wheel' is one of the tunes featured on Slim's upcoming YPOM DIGITAL release of his next compact disc ~
'Who Needs Cable With A Life Like Mine'? On schedule for a release date the beginning of November.
 
 

 

 
And here is the home video we shot on July 7, 2008 of Bailey doing a cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." Enjoy!
 
 
 
 

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