Welcome to Robert's URBAN PRODUCTIONS Recording Studio
- offering a full range of musical/creative services, including
(producing, composing, arranging, drum-programming, recording, midi-sequencing, web-site design & singer-songwriter projects.
Music for dance, film, stage, schools, etc.
Click here to see a sampling of Urban Productions CLIENTS.
 Additionally, Robert is available for off-premise work as producer, recording engineer, private music teacher and/or session guitarist/bassist.

The studio's control room has recently been outfitted with a new soundproofing, solid soundproof door and 5'x 6' giant soundproof window.
We are MAC-based (fully loaded & updated - 24 bit/96k hard disk recording via Apogee and/or MOTU 2408mk3 & 24i, MOTU Digital Performer
(currently 5.1) music software, Toast, Jam, Peak, AutoTune, WAVES plug-in effects,
MOTU SYMPHONIC orchestral instruments, REASON, BATTERY drums, etc, etc.)

 

 

Guitars on premise include Strats, Les Pauls, vintage electric hollow bodies, Fender & ESP bass gtrs,
Takemine acoustic gtr. Amps include Roland Jazz Chorus 120, Vox AC15, Mesa Boogie, Hartke bass amp,
POD, vintage 80's Roland GR300 gtr synth & many gtr effects pedals.



Keyboards in include M-Audio 88 weighted-keys Keystation controller, Proteus MPS & vintage Roland JX8-P - plus sounds from REASON and MACHFIVE soft synth sources.

Drum sound sources include BATTERY, Alesis DM5, Roland JV-2080, vintage Roland 707 drum machine, Proteus MPS and a seven piece Roland midi-trigger drum kit. Numerous real percussion instruments (tamborines, shakers, bells, claves, etc.) also on premise.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

Singer JAMES ERICKSON contributes to Roger Kuhn's 2005 cd Proof.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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rock artist YOLANDA

Robert lays down some drum trax on his 2003 CD release ROCK WIDOW

Musical Colleage & Bassist Extraordinairre TOSHIO MANA poses during a studio session.

robert urban and nestor the cat

Robert (and Nestor) during his 2001 ELEGIES CD studio sessions.

 


See also various film scores composed & recorded by Robert at Urban Productions.

 
Punk rock Singer/Poet SCOTT FREE sings "The Muffin Song" for his 2004 cd They Call Me Mr. Free

PC meets MAC - Robert Urban & Synth/Tech Wizard TOM O'NEILL trade song & sound files across platforms
Blues Harp Expert GLEN MUNOZ records some solos for a client's session. We got a great vintage blues sound using a Bullet Mic thru a tube Vox guitar amp with classic spring reverb.

Marry Campbell - 2007 recording sessions for LONG, LONG WAY HOME cd.

Roger Kuhn & James Erickson sing duet vocals for a track on Roger's 2005 cd PROOF

contact:
Robert Urban - Owner/Operator

212-932-1044
email: Urban Productions
website - www.roberturban.com - (hey - yer already here!)

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