j a c k e t w e a t h e r 

Drinking - Recording - Fixing - Mixing - Mastering

(usually in that order)

 

Greetings

jACKETWEATHER is a creative recording facility in South Austin, Texas run by producer David Dreesen with friends James Adkisson, Brandon Johnson and Travis Mears.

The facility is a 2000 square foot, two-suite-studio just outside the city limits. We have a beautiful view of almost nothing at all, great rooms with twelve foot ceilings and plenty of beer storage for up to ten people.

At Jacketweather, we focus on maintaining a relaxed environment, offering affordable production, nailing BIG room tones and participating in above average whiskey consumption. Is it any wonder that 2008 finds us celebrating 11 years of making records in Texas recording studios owned and operated by David Dreesen and crew?

The current jacketweather facility can accommodate large bands for tracking as well as provide overnight sleeping space for 5 (+ a couple on the lounge floor)

Any questions unanswered on this page? Just give Brandon a call and he can fill you in.

Latest News 3/25/2008 Distant Lights has released their first full length album entitled "Simulacrum". It is a ten song record tracked and mixed at Jacketweather, Produced by David and was not surprisingly fueled from beginning to end by Maker's Mark and Gaelans trip to Amsterdam. J Price is set to release his EP containing four tracks recorded and mixed at Jacketweather with David acting as Pistol Range instructor, producer and substitute bassist. Still Mixing a few to be released sooner than later. Including: Brooks Chambers, Auto Geographic, A Five and Dime Ship and Nightmare Logic. Waiting to hear on release dates from Tungsten Coil, Brael and Cobretti... Bands gearing up to track this spring/summer are rumored to include Wes Cox, Buckshot Roberts, She Craves, Hundred Year Storm and Bayta Darell. We are currently booking bands for May/June. Email brandon@jacketweather.com 512.731.6094

 

References We have had the honor of working with hundreds of outfits over the last decade, and are proud to call those artists our extended family. We believe the best decision you could make would be to put your songs in our hands. But don't take our word for it. Feel free to check out and contact a few folks from the VERY LARGE Jacketweather family of artists. They will surely tell you how hard we worked to help them make a great album, and probably also that they don't remember all that much after the first bottle or two of Maker's Mark...but it seemed to work out just fine anyway. She Craves | Hundred Year Storm | Bayta Darell | Whitman | Knockout KIngs | Tungsten Coil | Zoo17 | A Five and Dime Ship | Hindsight | Nooner | Triggerfish | Brooks Chambers | Eta Carinae | A Boy Called Dirge | 21 Down | Widows and Orphans | Meyvn | Purchase New York | J Price | Cobretti | Distant Lights | Furthest From The Star | AutoGeographic | Nightmare Logic | Killer Crocs of Uganda | Incompatable Sleep Patterns | Deep Sea Diving | Dallas | Despite The Loss| Creeker | Fields of Stone | 3 Kisses | Perigee | Ill Spent Youth | SickBoy | David Anthony Jones | JJ Vickers | Swell Audio | Fairfax | Grey Haven | Potential MacKenzie | Red 5 Standing By | Chasing Away | Cord Stone | Bonsai Bugs | Robbie and The Robots | Falls Victim | Skyfall | Derbin | Missing Sunday | Knight Riders | Will Phillips |Section 8 | Brooks Deghetto | New Automatic | Johnny Gobbs | The Lurk | 2 Small Shoes | Keefrider | Basin Street | Tim Parke | Little Scooters | Mike Runnels | The Reactors | The IC Hot Band | Thanks For The Update | Rheum Euphoria | 100 Days | Day Old Donuts | Choosing Sides | Justin Gray | Pinhole Burns | Satellite 9 | Anechoic | Coocs | Zurko | After Image | Kronos | Nordge | The Innocents | La Troy | Chetan

toys

The Blue Room is still under construction, so the Red Room is the only available tracking suite.

The Red Room Here's a pic of our 16x12 control room with wood floors and 12' ceilings. The primary console is a Trident VFM 16 channel board, the Digital System is (2) MOTU 2408, and the tape machine is an MCI JH-100 2" 16 Track. This room can comfortably seat 5-6 for playback but the tracking room is equipped with monitors for larger sessions. Other Gear Includes: LA-610, VC6Q, White 4500EQ, VC3Q, A rack full of Misc toys. Mics by Blue,AKG, Rode, AT, Earthworks, Shure, ElectroVoice, Neumann and more. Pretty much all the standards...over 100 mics Nuendo, Waves, TRacks, URS, UAD-1, Wavelab, Voxengo, SSL, API, Spectrasonics, Harbal, Melodyne, VocAlign, and tons of other plug-ins.	Tracking Room The 30x27 Cutting room has 12' ceilings and was acoustically and aesthetically designed to be a comfortable- whole band- live tracking room. There is also an attached 11x8 isolation room. There are clear views between all rooms thanks to large picture windows and sliding glass doors. A separate lounge has sitting room, tv, bunk beds, fridge, microwave and coffee pot. Also, chairs and a second fridge on the covered deck for extra beer. We are currently in the process of adding bathroom and shower facilities. We have several drum shell options, guitar amps and effects- we discuss gear in preproduction.