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Cross Keys Studio, in Port Republic, offers world-class audio and high-definition video recording at the studio or at your event. Our staff has many years of live and recorded sound experience. Let us capture your music and help you share it with the world. As performers ourselves, we can offer you the care and expertise that your talent and material deserves. Record your music, make a promo video, live-stream a concert performance – it’s all here and waiting for you. Contact us today, take a tour, follow your dreams and set your music free.

www.crosskeysstudio.com

gene@bearcademusic.com

540.421.4756

Cross Keys Studio – details

• audio and video production studio
  • in-house and on location
  • live-streaming and video on demand
  • 24 x 36 live room
  • 2 isolation booths
  • fully outfitted control room – designed for mixing and mastering
  • latest ProTools, Waves and Izotope hardware and software
  • classic Soundcraft Ghost mixing board with Lynx Aurora AD/DA conversion
  • extensive microphone collection including the complete line of Peluso and Ear Trumpet microphones. We also offer sales support of both the Peluso and Ear Trumpet mics.

• located in Port Republic – on the edge of the former Cross Keys battlefield
• solar-powered with Post & Beam construction – built to last long into the future.

Current Rate Sheet for audio and video recording at Cross Keys Studio

CKS Rate Sheet2024A  – follow the link for studio pricing guidelines

 

The History of the Studio

The Birth of the Studio

My life-long love affair of woodworking and music came together to breathe life into a beautiful structure across the driveway from my house now known as Cross Keys Studio.  Watch the video below to see the structure rise from ground level- in just over 6 days! Many thanks to Gaius Hennin and the crew from the Shelter Institute in Woolwich, ME.  Not only did the design the building but they also showed up after we had cut all of the timbers and assembled it for us.  This was only the second time they had assembled a student-cut building since they began doing this in 1974 so I’m quite honored that they trusted my team.

Speaking of teams, I have to thank, Mac McCumsey, Vinnie King, my mother-in-law, Elsie Janthey, my two brothers, Tom and Carl, my daughters, Joan and Anna, and especially my wife Chris.  Without these folks I couldn’t have completed this dream and begun capturing the musical sounds from the Shenandoah Valley.

The construction phase o fthe woodshop and studio building was captured by my friend and videographer, John Woody – see IEDITHD for more details.  He was at the site everyday and captured the spirit of the building rising up from the ground – in early January no less.  His video, Post and Beam Workshop and Recording Studio, also includes a bit of the finish work inside the structure.

World-Class Recording

The recording studio is working hard these days.  Recent activities include two new upcoming cd releases from my band, The Highlander Sting Band and a new release from Bob Driver – his second cd project here at the studio.  Each of these projects has made great use of our collection of Peluso mics as well as the Grace and Chandler preamps.

Trudy Cole and Bob Driver came by the studio to add a duet to the collection of tunes that Bob and I have been recording for his second cd with us here at BeARcade Music Productions. They recorded a wonderful version of “How Can You Have The Blues”

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