The Sound Chisel Recording Studio:

The Sound Chisel is now back in limited mode operation. In June of 2006, while I vacationed out of state it started to rain in Endwell, NY just as I left town. It continued to rain non-stop for 5 days - sometimes as much as an incher per hour. As a result, an unprecedented flood placed 800 homes and businesses in my area under water. Several of those homes and businesses did not carry flood insurance because the land on which they were located had never been flooded in recorded history. Sadly, this devastation hit both my home and my studio. Unable to get out from under the mortgage I had no choice but to work hard rebuilding both. More info and photos can be seen here. After 3 years of hard work pretending to be a carpenter, I am once again a focused musician!

My studio, the Sound Chisel, is located in Endwell, New York near Binghamton. The studio is fully digital using up to date software centered around video and audio programs such as Vegas Video from SONY Creative Software and SONAR Producer from Cakewalk. Being a project studio, simultaneous inputs are limited compared to a full featured studio. Nonetheless, the total number of layered recorded tracks is virtually unlimited. This means I cannot record a dozen musicians simultaneously, but I can record up to 4 performers simultaneously and then use several successive passes to create a virtual ensemble of any size.

SONAR Producer installed on a computer is the hub of the SOUND CHISEL situated in a room 25 feet by 40 feet. There is plenty of sound absorbing material and even a backdrop of a green screen for video taping. It is in my basement so getting to it is almost as easy as falling out of bed.

 A local song writer at work in the Sound Chisel Studio: "Bob has done a fabulous job helping me put my projects together. I write songs but I am not a computer geek, a recording engineer, or an extraordinary musician. So without the services offered by Bob Greaves and the SOUND CHISEL, the songs I wrote would never get recorded using professional arrangement and instrumentation. I'm absolutely pleased with the results. This time I got satisfaction! The music and the vocals have a striking clarity and my songs have come to life... I highly recommend Bob Greaves and The SOUND CHISEL Studio."

Creative assets on hand:

Roland XP-60 Workstation, Roland Sound Canvas SC88 ST-Pro, Garritan Personal Orchestra, Dimension Pro & several other software synthesizers, ART SGX-2000E, ART FXR-Elite, VOX AC30CC, VOX ToneLab, Line 6 Pod XTL, numerous microphones and sampled instruments from all over the world including the standard orchestra.

I have a sound pallet of numerous quality instruments. Acoustic, electrics, dobros & basses by Coral, Danelectro, Epiphone, Fender, Gibson, Gretsch, Guild, Hofner, Ibanez, Martin, National, Rickenbacker, Washburn, and many more.

Cakewalk: All versions from Cakewalk apprentice version 1 through the latest release of SONAR Producer - From SONY Media Software: Vegas Video - all versions since 4, DVD Architect - all versions  - CD Architect, GenieSoft Overture, Finale, Pro Tools Le.

Other Software : Cool Edit 2000, numerous effects packages including Perfect Space, Arboretum, Boris FX, Debugmode, NTONYX, Pixelan, RBC Audio, Sonic Timeworks, SONY Creative Software, and many I forget about until I need them,