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BY STEPHEN WELLS
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E ntering the city of Wheelock
from Highway 46, it is very
easy to miss County Road
312. The dirt track gives it the ap
pearance of little more than a dri
veway. More than a mile through
the mud, there is a mobile home
with an old gray dog and what
looks like a large tool shed from the
outside, something a rancher might
keep his tractor in, but there is an
advanced digital recording stu
dio— Harry O’s studio.
It is where Harry Ohanian and
Steve Carr have been helping to ful
fill musical dreams for the past two
years in the Brazos Valley.
The studio began as a practice
spot for Ohanian and his friends,
but eventually evolved into the full
time studio it is today.
“This started out as just a place
some friends and I built to practice
in, just like a spot at a storage
place,” Ohanian said. “Then I start
ed to dabble in recording. Some
people got interested in having me
help them to record, and it just
took off from there.
“I began with a drum machine
and moved up to four-track and so
on all the way up to the 96 tracks
and multitude of processing gear
we have now. ”
The increasing demands on his
time and expertise forced Ohanian to
look for help, and he found it in Steve
Carr, a professional sound engineer.
“I’ve worked the studio for years
and just got tired of working here,”
Ohanian said. “By the grace of
God, I met Steve who was looking
for engineering work, and my stu
dio was a great outlet for him to do
his work.”
The location of the studio may
not inspire confidence in the qual
ity of the recording, but Ohanian
said he has good reasons for keep
ing the studio where it is.
“In a small town like ours, when
people hear that you are recording
an album, they always drop in to
say hello or listen in, and that can
interrupt the recording process,”
Ohanian said. “By being out of the
way, we minimize that. Plus, I al
ready own the property, so I don’t
need to rent space in downtown
Bryan. Another thing is that when
I go to a studio in Houston and
walk outside for a break, all I hear
is a garbage truck. Here you can sit
back and listen to the coyotes and
look at the stars.”
Any doubts about the quality of
the recording from Harry O’s will be
dashed when the clientele and final
products are taken into account.
“Anybody who has a name in
music in the Bryan and College
Station area has recorded here,”
Ohanian said.
The studio’s reputation has
spread to distant locales, and Har
ry O’s serves an impressive num
ber of out-of-town musicians.
“I have clients from as far away
as Galveston who come here to
record,” Carr said. “1 don’t think
you’ll find anyone that will work
harder for you than me. Every
product that comes out of here is
an advertisement. The quality of
recording is very good for the price
you pay. That’s why people come
from Galveston. There’s a lot of
studios between here and there,
but they come to us.”
Carr is not the only person expect
ed to work hard while in the studio.
“Guys come in here who work
hard and play three shows a week,
and tell us that recording is much
harder than playing on stage,” Carr
said. “Of course, you can come in
here with a cooler full of beer and
have yourself a little party while
you record, but that’s going to be
an expensive party. ”
Perfection is almost never
achieved on the first take, Carr said.
“As a producer, 1 call the shots to
try and make the song sound as
good as it can,” he said. “A singer
can sing something 20 times in a
row, and if none of those times is just
right, they have to do it again. And
the singer must perform with the
same energy on the thirtieth take as
on the first. It can get tiring.”
While perfection may sound like
a lofty goal for the folk singer who
performs only on open-mic nights,
Carr said the studio has a solution
for everything.
“Sometimes people will just
come in here for an hour and play
random things on their guitar while
I record it,” Carr said. “Later, I’ll
build a song around what they’ve
played and call them back in to do
the vocals,”. ■
Even those who do not have the
backing of a full band can record if
they have an idea for a song.
“You might have grandma come
in here with a Casio keyboard or
somebody sing along with a
karaoke tape,” Ohanian said. “We
can offer them studio musicians to
come in and play their arrange
ments, we can help them write the
song and fill in instruments until it
sounds good, or we can just mix
what they bring in.”
On the other hand, those with
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Steve Carr mixes a CD for the Galveston-based band One Spirit
a full band can be accommodated
as well.
“We have about a thousand
square feet of space in the studio
devoted to musicians,” Ohanian
said. “We can easily record a full
band live, where they’re all playing
at the same time.”
Carr said what separates a
full-scale CD from tinkering
around is money.
“What separates a demo from
a CD is the budget,” Carr said. “In
this business, the size of the bud
get, up to a point, determines the
quality of the recording. On a
demo that’s just used to get more
gigs, we let things slide we would
n’t let go otherwise.”
One rule for the studio is to al
ways be prepared for the time
spent in the studio.
“If Whitney Houston.came in
here with a backing track, it would
only take us 30 minutes to finish,”
Ohanian.said. “But when grandma
decides to make a rock album, that
can take a while. Haywood was re
cently in here and had everything
ready to go, so it only took about
30 hours to make a full-length CD. ”
The studio caters to all types of
music and people from all different
walks of life.
“This job is all fun,” Carr said.
“We’ve had all kinds of music
from country to rock to folk to
black gospel to a polka grou|
had accordions and everyi
Each type of music is anew
lenge to record.”
The studio is not only for
ing musicians. Ohanian said
body with something to singi/
come at the studio.
“We get all kinds of pef
here,” Ohanian said. Tveieca
everything from guys who®
living playing music to guy
hand me their work schedulf
we try to work with them.”
Texas A&M students ®
strangers to the studio.
“We’ve had.a lot of colleg
dents come through here,”01i
said. “We know they’re on ah
budget, and we will workaroiT
Aggies will be around for foil
or six years, and so wecanstreiQ
project out to suit them.", -
Depending on the needsot
musicians, Harry O’s cattpi
anything from a live albumtoa
fledged CD.
Ohanian said similar to man
tivities in college, one’s expos#
recording may blossom into ah
“Some guys play golf, some
drive cars and some guysd
things,” Ohanian said. “Some!
just want to hang out at thestui
they save up their money and#
a weekend out of it. And welw
fun job when they’re in here.”
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