Music Producer

>> Everybody in a good mood here on this beautiful spring night here in New York City. Are we ready? Let me hear you, come on! [ Cheering ] [ Music ] >> My name is Richie Cannata, and I'm the owner of Cove City Sound Studios. And you might know me from my saxophone playing mainly for the records I've done with Billy Joel and Elton and Celine Dion and the list goes on and on and on and on. The definition of a recording studio these days it's really, really changed. Most people that have studios are the size of this office we're doing this interview in. Our studio is a 3 level facility with a very, very large recording room, 40 by 40 room, 25, 30 foot ceilings. The grand piano, iso booths, and everybody can set up and make music as a band. And so it makes for a better recording. When you hear things that come out of our studio that are hit records, go why does it sound better? Because we, from the ground up, are building a track until we actually do the final mix [inaudible]. [ Music ] Well a busy day would be if it's a client that's here like today. We have a client, a producer and an engineer from California that are in. And they are tracking a band from New York. So for me making sure that we're accommodating them correctly with set up, with gear that they needed to have. With one of my engineers showing them the signal path of what we have here to make everybody happy to be able to cut the basic tracks. And I get that going for them. And I periodically go into the control room and make sure everybody's happy and do that. On a production day for myself, I'm in from minute 1 to we turn off the lights at night. Whether it's a major artist or a local artist, it doesn't make any difference to me. I'll accommodate them, and I'll do what they need. Whether it's a saxophone solo or an arrangement with other horns. Or getting them to, you know, come in and use our piano for a college entrance piece of music that's needed for so many kids. We do that all the time, and I treat them as I do J Lo, you know. It's the the same treatment. [ Music ]