MORPH PRODUCTIONS
*Toronto Recording Studio - Recording, Production, Mixing, Songwriting/Composing*
Welcome to Morph Productions, the home of Morph studios and Toronto producer Ashton Price.
Let's face it, there are many recording studios in Toronto and the GTA that can set up some mics and press record. Ashton can do that too, but his projects come to life with his production and arranging skills. He also has help along the way with his team of session musicians. Whether it's rock, hip hop or pop music production, Ashton has proven himself as one of the best guys to get you a radio-ready product at a reasonable price - in the GTA and beyond!
If you think "talk is cheap", you're right. What really matters is the finished product. Click on the above links to listen to Ashton's demos and beats while learning more about Morph Productions. Feel free to call or email if you have any questions or would like to book a meeting.
Check below to see some of the exciting things that have been going on at the studio.
*August Update* The funny thing about the news page is that the busier I am the emptier it is because I don't have time to update it. Just realized that I haven't updated since July so I'm just going to do one massive update for August right now. August was spent mostly finishing off a lot of projects for people that I've been working with since the winter in some cases.
- Kyle Dine's children's album was finished and sent off for mastering at the beginning of the week.
- The Stolen Owner's demo was finished and sent off to be tweaked by a pretty heavy hitter in the industry.
- Meghan Stock did an album here, playing acoustic guitar and singing at the same time. She did about 16 tracks like that and it turned out great. Not very many people could sound as good as her raw like that.
- Toronto pop/rock artist Dua came to do a few songs as well. He played all the instruments for his demo and I recorded and mixed.
Toronto hip hopper "Real" came by to start working on his mix tape.
- Finished off 4 of the 8 languages that Toronto pop artist Bobby Smart is recording for his song "Don't Go Away".
Oh ya… Morph Productions turns 11 this month. At some point I'm hoping to have some time to celebrate. Hope you're all doing well!
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July 18- Working with Toronto rock band Stolen Owners. These guys have a great sound and are really great to work with.
July 17- Begin recording an informative audio book for the Heart and Stroke foundation regarding the dangers of high blood pressure. The Heart and Stroke Foundation chose one of the voice over guys we use regulary, Matt Brown.
July 12- Begin recording with Toronto pop artist Bobby Smart. Bobby has a great song that he's recording here and with a cool twist he's doing it in 8 different languages.
July 11- Toronto Hip hopper Trench came in to record some more songs for his mix tape. Mix tape should be done in another month or two.
July 10 - Ryan Malcolm drops by to lay down some vocals for a Toronto based songwriter I'm working with.
July 1 - Montreal pop/rocker Albert came up for the weekend to work on his album. We had John Zytaruk and Mike come in to lay down some lap steel, dobro and guitar on the tunes.
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June 26 - Recorded a Hungarian voice over.
June 26 - Begin writing and producing a simple demo of a song for Toronto rock/pop artist Lesley
June 21 - Put up some new beats on the beat player and a new song up on the demo player. You can check them up by clicking the "Listen Beats" and "Listen Demos" links at the top of the web page.
June 20 - This was another month for some great sessions musicians coming in. Susana Caxaj came in to lay some vocals down for Andrea who was recording her pop/rock song "Cliche". Next on the list was Ali Raney who played some fiddle on Kyle Dine's children's CD that he's doing here and last but not least John Zytaruk played some lap steel and dobro on another writers song that is being demoed here. Always a treat to have such great musicians coming through to sweeten up projects I'm working on! Thanks guys!
June 10 - Toronto singer/songwriter/jokster Kathy Anderson dropped by today to do a song about Roy Halliday leaving the Jays. Within a few weeks she and some others were able to put a pretty funny video of the tune up on youtube. Marketing in the digital age! Here's a link to the video: "The Doc Halladay Song"
June 4 - The guys from Reck Em records came by with 6 of their artists to drop a bunch of tracks for various mix tapes.
June 2 - Toronto hip hopper Trench dropped by to do a tune at Morph Productions. Trench currently has a video on Much Music and judging from what I heard the day he came by I can see him doing really well.
June 1 - Toronto Somalian pop singer Fortuun just finished her album at Morph Productions. She had her producer in Somalia create the music and then she brought 2-mixes to the studio to sing over. The 9 song album turned out great and though I have no idea what she's singing about (My somalian is a bit rusty) her voice is beautiful and the album turned out great.
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May 24 - Toronto pop/rocker Sonya is back in the Toronto studio again after about a year long hiatus. Sonya's come back with a darker song than last time which I'm going to rock up as much as possible. Sonya has a great voice and this song will be a cool dark rock production when finished with all the bells and whistles.
May 23 - Montreal pop/rocker Albert came up for the long weekend to continue working on his new album. On sunday we had session bass player Nick Czarnogorski in to lay down bass tracks for 10 songs. It was a long day but Nick proved himself a pro as always and played in a lot of really cool parts. Nick has been coming here for years and is always available to lay down some bass tracks on peoples tunes. He's a versatile player and has a few basses to choose from for sessions.
May 22 - Toronto jazz singer Evelyn Arthur came to the studio today to lay down three jazz tracks with her guitar player Thomas. 3 songs were recorded live off the floor with Evelyn in the booth and Thomas in the guitar room. Tracks turned out really well and mixing will commence later this month.
May 22 - Toronto jazz singer Evelyn Arthur came to the studio today to lay down three jazz tracks with her guitar player Thomas. 3 songs were recorded live off the floor with Evelyn in the booth and Thomas in the guitar room. Tracks turned out really well and mixing will commence later this month.
May 19 - After a winter long break for school Toronto pop/rock artist Tiffany Chan is coming back in the studio to begin working again on her album. The first session involved finishing a song we started writing last fall and then on to more recording! Tiffany has a very beautiful voice and has some great songs which is going to make this a good project to work on.
May 18 - Recording another audio book for Burman books for their audio book company based out of New York. This book was written and read by Burman Books president Sanjay Burman. I've been working with Burman Books for about 2 years now and I have to say their books just keep getting better and better. Sanjay's book is definitely his best yet and will probably do a lot for himself and for the people he's trying to help.
May 16 - This past weekend the AES (Audio Engineers Society) had it's big conference at the Direct Energy Centre and I was honoured to be asked to be a guest speaker at one of the panels they were having about running a small studio. I shared the stage with Peter Moore, Trevor Shaw, Dave Dysart (HHB) and Martin Pilchner (Pilchner Schoustal). Here's a link to the webcast of the discussion: "Webcast Click Here"
May 14 - Hamilton lesbian dance artist Nancy Rancourt is back in the studio this month producing a track she wrote for Hamilton artist pop artist Steven and finishing up a few songs that her and I have co-written. Nancy's new single that I co-produced is also set to hit the airwaves later this month.
May 12 - Got a different project today. Some representatives from a sound company based out of Korea came over today and hired me to record 5 Ontario born english speakers to test a voice prompt recognition software being developed to be used in automobiles. This company is getting studios to record people saying 900 phrases and number combinations all over North America to make sure the system works with everyone's different accents. I'm glad that Morph Productions was one of the studios chosen to work on the project.
May 6 - Begin working on album for Toronto hip hop/reggae artist Don Bello. Don Bello was in this past winter to do a track for Haiti and was so happy with the production he got that he decided to do the rest of his album here at Morph. I'm very happy to be working with him as he's a very talented guy with a good head on his shoulders. I'll be doing the beats and Don will be writing the lyrics and doing vocals in both english and creole.
May 3 - Ottawa pop/rock artist Peter Machechnie came up for a few days to finish the tracking for his upcoming album. Peter was in Toronto at U of T for music but has since went back to Ottawa for the summer. Mixing on his project will commence next week and the project should be out by the fall.
May 1 - I've been mentioning this for a while now but just a reminder that Factor Demo Award grant submission deadlines are coming up on May 14th. Contact me directly and we can discuss if this would be a good project for you and how I can help you apply. I have lots of experience getting these for people and just went to a seminar to further my knowledge on the process so let me know if you're looking for a studio and need some help.
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April 30 -This was the month of amazing session musicians coming to Morph! First I had Brownman, National Jazz Award winner, over to lay some killer trumpet tracks down for a project. Next Kat Lucas, who's currently on a break from a world tour with Pink dropped by and laid a bunch of tracks for two of the artists I'm working with. Last but not least vocalists Ryan Malcolm and Tia Brazda came to sing on two different projects respectively. I was definitely honoured to get some professional talented musicians on some of the projects I've been working on. Everyone had a great time and the projects will be the better for it!
April 27 - Toronto pop band (they're more than pop but it's hard to describe what they do) are back to record an entire album at Morph. These guys have all the potential to do some big things in the industry with a sound unlike anything that I've heard while still keeping things catchy. Do a search on youtube for "Airplane Boys" to see some of their spacey videos.
April 24 - Montreal rock/pop artist Albert came up to finish his first album and jump right back in to the second one! Albert's one of my favourite people to work with and the progress he's made on his music over the last few years has been great to watch. His project is definitely worth looking out for in the future.
April 23-There's no bigger compliment to me than people coming back to me, sometimes years later, to record their new projects. There's been a few people coming back lately but one of my favourites, Toronto rock/pop artist Gemma Wood, is coming back with her band. Regular readers of the news section will remember that Gemma and I did an EP together last year and since then she's gotten a band together and decided to come back to Morph to do some demos of the new tunes. I gotta say the new tunes are great and I can't wait to see the new band live!
April 20 - On April 20th I went to a Factor seminar going over the submission process for their grants this year. I've had lots of experience over the years getting people grants through Factor but wanted to make sure that I was still up to speed on the process. The seminar was very informative and I look forward to putting the knowledge that I've learned towards the next set of grants. The next "Demo Award" grants deadline is May 14, 2010 so contact me early if you want help.
April 16 -Toronto pop singer Pawan has gotten me to make another beat for him for a new tune. Probably be recording it in the next few months when he's finished writing.
April 15 -Recorded a track for Toronto hip hopper E Sober. E Sober got the beat from well known american producer Mr. Green. E Sober dropped the track really quickly and is sending it back to Mr. Green for approval. Really cool flows!
April 13 -Mixed a cool hip hop track by Toronto hip hopper Don Swagville. Don produced the song himself and then got me to mix it at my studio. Look out for this hot track this summer!
April 12 -Just finished mixing a really cool R&B song for Toronto artist Dean Hayve. Dean did a lot of the recording himself on his Logic Pro set up and then had it touched up by another producer. He then brought the tracks to my studio for mixing. The track ended up turning out great and is already for mastering by one of my mastering engineers.
April 11 -Catch the goings on of Morph Productions - Toronto Recording Studio on your favourite social network:
Morph Productions on Twitter
Morph Productions Blog
Morph Productions on Facebook
I try to keep it pretty informative with deals I see on the web and my experience with different gear and techniques.
April 6 -I'm happy to announce that Toronto's own Brownman, trumpet extraordinare is back home for a while having circled the more than a few times with New York hip hop star Guru of Jazzmatazz and Gangstarr fame. Brown is going to be around for a while and will be available for sessions at the studio. Brown is a dedicated, inspirational musician that will definitely put a different flavour on your tracks.
April 5 -Toronto hip hop artist Echelon dropped by today to get a song mixed here at the Toronto studio. Echelon had a producer do the beat for him and then recorded the vocals at a different studio. He decided to give me a try for the mix because he liked the work I've done. The mix session went really quick and good and Echelon is ready to get the song mastered and released. It's a good tune, look for it soon!
April 2 - Producing new tune for Toronto hip hop artist T-Blaze. I'm making the beat and handling the production and T-Blaze is laying down his vocals. It's a great song written about his mother in Haiti and it's definitely worth checking out when it's out. Mixing is happening next week at the studio and the planned release is early May.
April 1 -I've just made arrangements with a great Toronto music video company to do videos for my clients at a low introductory price. Contact Ashton directly to get the details and get a demo DVD of previous work.
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March 28 -*New Gear Alert* Just picked up a Mac Pro with 10 gigs of ram and 3.2 tb of hard drive space. This machine is a real number cruncher with space to spare. Everyone's projects are running a lot smoother and I'm happy.
I also picked up a few new plugins this month. The new Melodyne Editor that allows you to edit polyphonic pitch material. I've tested it out a bit and it really works. Who knew that would ever be possible. I also picked up Andrew Slate's drum plugin that has a lot of incredible drum sounds and the Nomad British Bundle which has an incredible Neve like eq and compressor in it. More good things to come from the studio!
March 26 -Toronto children's performer Kyle Dine has decided to come to Morph Productions to record his second C.D.. For those of you don't know Kyle writes and performs children's songs promoting allergy awareness. Kyle is performing most of the instruments himself on the album and he got my session drummer Craig Lapsley to handle the drums. Kyle has really impressed with me with is clever songwriting. He's definitely a talented guy who takes his craft very seriously. The album should be done in a few months.
March 21 -Toronto R&B artist Karine came in to record a song about her native Congo. It was a beautiful song that she had me put a bit of music behind. Renee will be using the song for many charity activities she does to raise awareness about what's going on in the Congo. Let's hope it goes far.
March 17 -Rock/pop artist Renee Bullock came by to record some vocals on her already recorded instrumental beds. Renee had some great songs and a really powerful voice. Hopefully she'll be coming back to the studio soon with some new material.
March 16 -Doing a song with Toronto hip hop artist 2G. 2G selected a beat from some I had available and wrote a super catchy song to it. We had a female vocalist sing the hook and he did the verses. 2G is a great talent that you're going to be hearing about really soon.
March 15 -Just finished a great song from Scarborough hip hop artist Don Belo. The song is a tribute to his native Haiti and it's really well written and performed. I did the beat and produced the song. Don Belo is having a release party/performance for his song on March 20th. You can see the flyer Here
March 8 -Toronto Hip Hop artist Duke comes back to Morph Productions after a three year break from recording to record some more material. Duke has Ashton do the beats and he writes his rhymes and performs on top of them. Duke's a great guy and I'm glad he's back working here @ Morph!
March 7 -Burlington pop/dance artist Shi-Anne is almost finished her second demo Morph Productions. The demo had me doing the beats and production with her writing the lyrics and singing. Shi-Anne has done two demos now at Morph Productions and this second one has really stepped things up. As a result she has a few people interested in her and things are looking good! Look out for new Shi-Anne tracks going up on the demo player soon.
March 3 -Toronto hip hopper Bruce comes back to Morph Productions to lay some more tracks down for his CD. Bruce currently has a talented buddy doing his beats for him and he comes to the studio to record his vocals and get the tracks mixed. Bruce has some great flows and the beats he rhymes on are really well done. Look for this project being finished sometime this year.
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February 28 -Recorded a new track for Bolton hip hop artist Scatter Brains. Scatter Brains does his own beats and then brings them to the Toronto studio to record his vocals with my high end vocal chain. I get the mix balanced and then I bounce out mix stems so he can further balance it at home if necessary.
February 19 -Recording an album for piano player Peter Grant Mackechnie. Peter is getting his friends to play some of the instruments he can't and I'm laying some bass tracks down for him. The plan is to have the album finished by May when he's finished university. The songs are a lot of fun and the project is going to turn out great.
February 12 -In addition to working on Dorrie Doucette's project together, multi-instrumentalist Patrick has also brought in a Toronto reggae artist to work with out of this downtown Toronto studio. As with the other project Patrick plays all the instruments in and Ashton engineers and co-produces. The artist, Dennis lays down his vocals and then we mix it together. Dennis and Patrick bring a lot of life experience to their music and it shines through with their collaboration.
February 10 -Toronto Christian folk/rock singer Dorrie Doucette is working on an album at Morph Productions. She has a musical accompanist, Patrick who plays the guitar, bass and keyboards for her and we program the drums together. With Dorrie's uplifting songs and one of the most beautiful voices I've ever recorded this album will definitely be a must have. All recorded here in the downtown Toronto Recording Studio!
February 9 -Mixing Whitby electronica artist "Alpha Channel". The band is largely the work of Lance Pilon who gets his friends to help out to fill things out. He recorded the project on a PC in Sonar and we've transferred the songs over to Logic Pro which is my mix program of choice. I mix the tracks on my own while keeping track of the time used and then send them to him via email. When we're finished all the tunes we'll get together and do the final tweaking. Look out for this project, it's going to be really good!
February 7 -Writing and producing a song with a Toronto computer programmer who's looking for a special gift for his girlfriend for their anniversary.
February 6 -Session banjo player (amongst other things!) John Zytaruk dropped by to lay down a banjo track for an new age artist based out of Ireland. The tracks were recorded at the Toronto Recording Studio to files sent by the client. We sent the banjo tracks back and the artist was very happy with the result. The world is getting a lot smaller!
February 5 -A song that I did the beat and production for just got licensed to an online video game calked "Our World". The artist's name is Jeud and he did his album at Morph Productions about 3 years ago. Congrats Jeud!
February 3 -Just finishing mixing Toronto recording artist Ion Ray's 3 song demo. He used Apple's Garageband to record and produce the demo in his home studio and then came to me to mix the project. I use Logic Pro usually so it was as simple as clicking on the Garageband file and watching Logic convert it into something that could be worked with in Logic Pro. The mixes turned out great (and were done under budget) and hopefully Ion Ray will have much success with his project that was 2 years in the making!
February 1 -Composing music for a television commercial that will be airing in Malaysia. The work is being done here in my Toronto Recording Studio and being sent via the internet to the post guy in Malaysia. The details are all discussed using skype. If the commercial ever appears on youtube I'll post a link.
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January 21 -Here's a blog posting I made on the difference between mastering and mixing. I get asked that question enough times that I thought I'd clarify on the blog. You can read it here: The difference between mixing and mastering
January 13 -Working with Toronto hip hop crew "Egyptions".
January 10 -Finished EP for Toronto hip hop artist Marlon Francis
January 5-One of the projects I did last year was with Brandon Khoshkahad who wanted me to help him produce a song he wrote in support of our troops. The song is finished and he did a video to put up on youtube which you can check out here: "Come Walk With Me" Video
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December 31-Happy New Year everyone! Even through a rough recession Morph Productions had it's best year to date and is looking forward to many more rewarding projects in 2010. I'd just like to thank all of my wonderful friends and clients for making that possible. For those of you who haven't worked out of Morph yet, feel free to contact me and find out why more and more people are coming from Toronto and beyond to get their projects done here.
December 15-Post production audio mixing and cleaning for documentary "The Wandering Jew".
December 10-Begin working with Toronto christian pop/folk singer Dorry Doucette
December 4-Mixing christmas EP for Vile Richard
December 2-Being recording song for Toronto reggae artist Reg
December 1 -Recorded three song demo for Toronto singer Alex
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November 22 -Finishing off an EP for Saskatoon artist TJ Hall before she goes back home.
November 20 -New beats up on the beat player, click the purple "listen beats" link at the top of the page
November 14 -Toronto session musician John Zytaruk dropped today with dobro, lap steel and banjo in hand to lay down some tracks. Session went great! Morph Productions is more than a Toronto Recording Studio, Ashton has many session musicians to bring your ideas to life.
November 14 -Tis the season! Morph gift certificates have always been a well received gift. Contact Ashton for more info.
November 13 -Finishing touches on everyones Factor applications
November 9 -Toronto pop/rock artist Geordie is back in the studio after a bit of a break.
November 6 -Recording some songs for Brampton hip hop artist Jay
November 5 -Recording a song for Toronto R&B artist Jerome
November 1 -Not a lot of people coming in this week due to a renovation. The new blue room looks great!
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October 31 -Recording another album for hip hop artist Scatter Brain
October 20 -Legendary trumpet player Brownman is back from touring with New York hip hop legend Guru and is now available for sessions again. Brown came in today to do some trumpet on some of Ashton's underscore for TV/film.
October 16 -Producing songs for Toronto singer/songwriter Tiffany Chan
October 15 -Recording songs for spanish speaking hip hop artist El Maestro
October 13 -Recording songs for spanish speaking hip hop duo Loco Latinos
October 10 -Creating a bunch of beats for various hip hop artists in Toronto and Belleville.
October 7 -Writing/Producing song with Rekha Patel for license catalogue.
October 5 -Recording/Mixing more songs with Toronto pop act "Airplane Boys".
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September 30 -Mixing Toronto alt/indie act "Sister Wives"
September 25 -House artist Royce Hercules comes in to record some vocals and get his tracks mixed.
September 23 -Recording multi-lingual voice overs for Sun North corporate video. Languages recorded are: Swedish, Arabic, Finnish and Hungarian.
September 22 -Spanish speaking rapper El Maestro comes in to lay down some vocals.
September 21 -There's some new beats up on the beat player. Check em out!
September 21 -There's some new beats up on the beat player. Check em out!
September 21 -You can now follow me on twitter @ http://twitter.com/morphpro
September 20-*New Gear Alert* Just picked up Marshall JCM 2000 50 watt head. Sounds great with the Marshall 1960A 4x12 cab I already have!
September 19-Toronto hip hop producer Mason'00 stops by with an artist to drop some vocals on one of his beats.
September 18-Recording Toronto folk/jazz singer Rob
September 14-Mixing Toronto band "Violet Fusion". Electric violin and rock rhythms. Very cool!
September 14-Recording Toronto Hip Hop artist Star Dat Prince and S150.
September 10-*New Gear Alert* Just got a Yamaha DTX electronic drum kit. Doesn't replace the real thing (nor should it) but good for drum programming and possibly people for people who are on a budget. Also got 6 new IK Multimedia plugins including: T-Racks Brickwall Limiter, Vintage Comp 670 (Fairchild replication), Opto Comp, Classic Comp, Multi-Band Limiter and CSR Hall Reverb.
September 8-Recording more tracks for Toronto folk artist Athena.
September 2-Producing new tracks for Burlington artist Shi-Anne. She came in to do some tracks this winter and has come in to do some more after hearing lots of positive feedback.
September 1-Toronto hip hop/pop group US release their first video onto youtube. Ashton recorded the vocals and mixed the song. This is one cool song and very cool video! You can check it out here: Airplane Boys Video Go to Top
August 27-*BIG NEWS* Morph Productions turns 10 years old. Thank you so much to all those that have done their projects out of here over the years!
August 22-Recording album for U.S. hip hop artist Kilo.
August 20-Recorded track for Toronto hip hop artist Chris.
August 19-Recorded Toronto christian rock duo Dorrie and Patrick.
August 17-Toronto hip hop crew US release their first video onto youtube. Ashton mixed the song and did some additional recording. You can check it out here: US Video
August 15-Begin recording 5 new audio books for Toronto book publisher "Burman Books". First book to be recorded is Sanjay Burman's book "Reading People". Under a deal with New York audio book publisher Gildan Media the books will be sold on itunes and other online audio book retailers.
August 10-Begin working on Toronto pop artist Milena's album.
August 7-Toronto hip hop artist Mike Frias returns to Morph to lay some more tracks after a 3 year absence. He's also getting me to do a beat for one of his songs.
August 5-Recording tracks for spanish speaking, Brampton based rappers El Duo Rebelde. They're also doing a track on one of my beats.
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July 30-Mixing two tracks for Juno award winner Johnny Favourite's new album produced by Tim Minthorn. Album is being released this fall by Curve Music
July 24-Toronto hip hop artist Carter drops by to do some tracks
July 24-Recording album for Toronto hip hop artist "Kilo"
July 20-Working with Toronto folk artist Athena. Broke out the harmonica!
July 17-Composing music for the Malaysian tv show "The Cup". The show is directed by the same guy who directed the show "Ghost" which Ashton also did music for.
July 13-Producing and co-writing with Toronto Rock/Pop artist Rekha Patel.
July 6-Gemma Wood returns from England to record some more songs. Going to put some of the stuff we did in the winter on the demo player in a few days.
July 6-Co-Producing an EP for Burlington experimental/pop artist Ana Winter with Nancy Rancourt. Ashton is also doing the programming for the project. Beats made with water drops and other ambience with synth pads being mangled with distortion boxes. It's going to be a really interesting project!
July 1-Working on an album with Toronto pop/rocker Tiffany Chan. Tiffany has an incredible voice that's way beyond her years.
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June 25-*New Toy Alert* Picked up a Hofner "beatle" bass. Made famous by Paul McCartney these semi acoustic basses are known for their warm woody sound. It'll be great to have this sound available when laying down bass tracks at the studio.
June 22-*New Toy Alert* Just upgraded my auto tune to auto tune evo. I prefer and use melodyne but auto tune is nice to have around for background vocals and such. Apparently the graphic mode is along the lines of melodyne now too. Going to try it out. Also got Antares Avox which has a bunch of vocal processors like a harmony engine and vocal doubler.
June 20-The young toronto duo "Common Ground" came into the studio to record two songs. Really great stuff!
June 19-Toronto Composer/Producer Kurt Von Hahn comes by to break in the studios Pro Tools software and do some post production and music creation for some online ads.
June 19-Toronto music producer Tim Minthorn drops by the studio to record Jill Barber's guest vocals for Juno award winner Johnny Favourite's new album being released this fall. I'm actually a big fan of Jill Barber so it was a real treat!
June 17-Mixing track for Juno nominated Torono hip hop artist JDiggz.
June 11-Nothing is better than having clients come back again and again to do their projects here. Back again is Toronto hip hop artist Jeud who finished an album here in 2007.
June 10-Mixing the music that Toronto composer Greg Hwang created to be heard in a play being performed in toronto.
June 1- Busy week at the studio! Montreal pop/rocker Albert is coming in everyday and I'm finishing up mixing Toronto prog rock band Polarity's debut album and Toronto hip hop crew "Us" mix tape. Also finishing up the workshops at Bishop Marrocco.
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May 28- Ashton begins a 4 part workshop on Logic Pro and recording basics at Toronto high school Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton.
May 25- Producing an album for Toronto pop/rocker TJ Hall.
May 19- Hamilton dance artist Nancy Rancourt made the top 20 on Toronto radio station Proud FM with her song co-produced and recorded by Ashton Price. It has also been added to Virgin Radio. Look forward to hearing more Ashton co-produced tracks very soon!
May 16- Begin making beats and producing comedy album for New Jersey/Toronto comedian Manny George.
May 14- Recording voice overs for He-Man fan cartoon being made by John Atkin
May 10- Finished up Burlington Pop artist Shi-Anne's demo. I put two songs up on the demo player. Click "Listen Demos" at the top to hear the songs.
May 8- Finished up Ajax turned Toronto artist Trevor's 3 song demo. He's now done 6 songs with me in the past year.
May 5- Mixing 3 song ep for Kingston folk band the "Grogs"
May 4- Recording Toronto Cuban group "Black Sugar Cane"
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April 30- Working on Pickering hip hop artist Young Judah's next mix tape
April 26- Mixing Toronto hip hop crew "US" debut album. Will also be recording a few tracks for them.
April 18- Toronto voice talent Benzi Mathews comes to Morph to do a voice over spot for a new business center opening in Brampton. Ashton has done so many voice over gigs in the last few years that he has lots of available people with unique skills to offer his clients. Pick an accent or language and chances are he has someone available!
April 14- Factor deadlines for demo awards is coming up. Contact Ashton for help with applying
April 8- Toronto jazz artist Aurelia Engstrom finishes off her jazz demo at Morph Productions. You can check out a clip on the demo player (click "Listen demos" above).
April 7- Toronto reggae artist begins recording a demo at Morph Productions. Christopher got his beats from a producer in Vancouver and is coming here to record vocals and do the final mix on the songs.
April 6- Toronto prog rock band has decided to mix their album at Morph Productions. This will definitely be a project to look out for!
April 1- Starting Markham hip hop artist 1Mike's mix tape to be released on Reck Em Records
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March 17- Ashton speaks to the students at Trebas Institute about job opportunities in the music industry.
March 11- The Great River MP-500NV's are here! I ordered two of them and they're now safe and sound in my lunchbox at the studio. The Great River pre's are made to be a modern take on the CLASSIC "Neve 1073" preamp. I've recorded a bunch of things through them and I'm definitely impressed. Prepare to hear these on a lot of Morph recordings in the future! You can read more about them at the Morph Blog
Also picked up a Marshall 1960a 4x12 cab.
March- Hamilton dance artist Nann comes back to the studio to lay some new tracks down.
March 8- Post production work beings today on documentary being produced by Sudaka Films. Project will involve recording voice overs, audio cleaning and mixing.
March 6- Did some audio cleaning/post production on interviews to be aired on Jazz FM in a documentary series called "New York Stories", featuring amongst other greats Les Paul
March 1- Finished recording Reck EM Records hip hop recording artist Mugsz mix tape and have now started with Carter's mix tape. Reck Em Records is a new label based out of Markham by some young talented guys. Expect to hear from them soon!
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February 18- Toronto pop/hip hop act Airplane Boys drop by to record another song. They bring their beats from their producer as a two mix and record their vocals here.
February 10- Played bass for live off the floor session for Toronto rocker Andrew Bray
February 12- Ryan Malcolm comes by to do session vocals for writer Andy Winter
February 9- Creating beats and producing songs for Ajax pop artist Trevor
February 5- Recorded three songs for Toronto Cuban hip hop act. They brought a Roland MC-909 in with their beats and rapped over top of that. Sounded great!
February 1- Recording vocals/producing songs for Burlington pop/R&B artist Shi-Anne
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Jan 25- Recorded voice over for Hilroy's telephone answering system
Jan 15- Created a pop beat for american pop artist Lisa Rae
Jan 13- Created some beats for american hip hop artist Joseph Tripp
Jan 7- Began working with pop/rocker Gemma Wood
Jan 3- Writing/Producing 8 pieces of music for Malaysian tv show "Ghost"
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Dec- Gift certificates are available for all services offered at Morph and make a great gift.
Dec 8- Engineered Toronto jazz musician, Brownman's soundtrack for Andrew McIntosh's documentary "Greetings from Mackenzie, BC" which will be submitted to national and international film festivals
Dec 1- Mixed an instrumental version of the classic Sloan song "Good in Everyone" for use as CBC's "The Hour's" theme song
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Nov 30- Piano has been tuned and just picked up a 50's National Lap steel
Nov 8- New beats on the beat player, click the purple tab below to check em out!
Nov 1- Producing "Drop Fees" song with Toronto activist Ali for national student campaign
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Oct 21- Begin working on C.D. for Toronto pop/rock artist Geordie.
Oct 10- Toronto singer Ryan Malcolm drops by to do session vocals for songwriter Andy Winter
Oct 5- Mixing Toronto rock band Digital Horse debut C.D.
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Sept 25- Buffalo R&B singer Tracey lays some tracks down with producer Peter Hall
Sept 7- Morph Productions now has a Neumann u87!!!
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August 15- Finished recording Burman Books catalogue into audio books
August 5- Producing/Co-writing song for Vancouver pop artist Rachel Suter
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July 21- Music Supervisor for "Making It in High Heels" Documentary/DVD.
July 13- Recording songs for "Hands Off Burma" benefit C.D.
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July 21- Music Supervisor for "Making It in High Heels" Documentary/DVD.
July 13- Recording songs for "Hands Off Burma" benefit C.D.
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June 25- Making beats and recording songs for Toronto Hip Hop artist Oso Rich
June 15- Making beats and recording song for Toronto pop artist Jonathan Morgan
June 5- Making beats and recording songs for Persian pop artist Behrooz
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April 25- Recording audio books for New York publisher
April 10- 2 artists get factor funding with help from Morph Productions!
April 3- Begin working on 3 song demo for pop artist Steve Roubai
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March 15- Voice over work for Canadian Government CD-Rom.
March 5- Co-Producing E.P. with world artist Benzi
March 1- Recording E.P. for Montreal Persian pop artist Ghazal.
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February 26- Begin recording 5 song demo for Toronto Singer/Songwriter Colin Bettam
February 16- Recorded demo for Cambridge Hip Hop crew "Youngest In Charge"
February 8- Recent purchases include Waves SSL plugins, Empirical Labs Distressor, Logic 8 and Pro Tools 7.4. Main recording chain is now API pre-->Distressor-->Apogee convertors!
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Jan 29- Brownman comes to Morph as guest producer for Cambridge soca artist Sheldon Barclay
Jan 13- Producing album with Toronto singer/songwriter Albert Moore
Jan 3- Working with Toronto reggae artist "Ice Black"
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Toronto Recording Studio April 2007:
April 11-Brownman and his Electryc Trio, who are currently mixing their live album at morph, have won a National Jazz Award for "Electric Jazz Group of the Year". Congrats guys!
April 8-Toronto Hip Hop artist "OSO Rich begins working on his second album at morph
April 5-Toronto artist MEA comes to finish up her album with her producer Shaun Christie
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Toronto Recording Studio March 2007:
March 29-Lisa Swain gets another Factor grant with Morph Productions help. Congrats lisa!
March 4-Mixing/Editing toronto jazz trumpeter Brownman's live "Electryc Trio" album
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Toronto Recording Studio Feb 2007:
Feb 24- Now offering short run cd-r pressing with full colour direct to disc printing
Feb 19-Recording demo for Toronto rock/pop artist Tara
Feb 17-Recorded bed tracks for Toronto funk band Organized Chaos
Feb 11-Recording demo for Toronto R&B artist Iris Hadzic
Feb 2-Recording a 21 track album for Toronto hip hop artist Jeud
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Toronto Recording Studio Jan 2007:
Jan 15-Recorded a song and additional guitars for Toronto Reggae artist Andrew Ranxx's debut album
Jan 11-Juno nominated Lisa Swain returns to Morph to record some new demos
Jan 7-Recorded dialogue for a tv commercial to be aired in Korea
Jan 2-Started working on Jonathan Morgan's pop demo Go to Top
TORONTO RECORDING STUDIO:
Morph Productions is a Toronto recording studio that provides many unique services to the GTA. Morph is run by Ashton Price who is also the in-house engineer/producer. Music Production, Recording, Mixing, Writing, Beat Creation, Session Musicians and Music Licensing are some of the many services that is offered by Morph. Check out the site and if you have any questions feel free to email or call Ashton today to discuss your project further.
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