Dave Trenkel of New and Improv offers a wide range of audio production services, including recording, mixing, digital editing and mastering for CD, CD-ROM or the web.

I've been recording myself and my own bands since Jr. High. Back in the days before cassette 4-tracks, I learned how to overdub and splice tape on a friend's father's Norelco(!) reel-to-reel deck. Dave Storrs and I co-operated Califas Studio, where I engineered the cream of the Corvallis Punk Rock scene in the early 1990's: Arcweld, Miscreants, Lazyboy, Lorax and many others. I jumped to computer based hard disk recording in 1994. I've worked on releases ranging from singer songwriters to free jazz, from children's music to metal, from classical music to punk rock. Throughout it all, I believe that recording has a few simple basics: Make the performer comfortable and get a clean signal to tape. The technology should support the performance, not the other way around.

Here are a few projects that have passed through the Blinky Room:

Eleven Eyes: Scope (New & Improv 2005) produced, mixed
Richard Applegate, Ed Bennet, Dick Berk: Warriors (Kalapuya 2004) jazz piano trio, Produced & recorded
Montage: Time Vs. Innocence (New & Improv 2004): mastered
Richard Applegate/Kay James: We'll be Together Again (Kalapya 2003) Jazz piano/vocal, produced
Rich Halley Trio featuring Bobby Bradford: The Blue Rims (Louie Records 2003) Mastered
Eleven Eyes: Depth Perception (New & Improv 2003) produced & recorded.
Minus: Dark Lit (New & Improv 2001) mixed, edited and mastered
Rob Blakeslee(new jazz): Last Minute Gifts (Louie Records 2000) CD mastered
Admiral Twinkle Devil: Wabi Dub (New & Improv music 2001) CD composed, recorded and mastered.
Pits(alternative metal): 12-song demo CD, mixed and mastered.
Emily Beezhold(singer/songwriter): Demo CD, recorded, mixed and mastered
Wonderlust(psychedelic folk pop): Demo CD recorded, mixed and mastered
The Arieu Wind Quintet(classical) : World Tour (MSS Publishing 1999) CD edited and mastered
Mudpie Trio(children's music): Demo CD recorded and mastered
Beit Am Choir(traditional Jewish Hanukkah service): CD edited and mastered
Tone Sharks(free improvisation): Chunks of Zen (Louie Records 2000) CD mastered
Boundary Issues(free improv): Starts and Fits (?)(Louie Records 2000) CD mastered
Dave Storrs: Waxing the Slide (Louie Records 2000) CD mastered
Valerie Brown(singer songwriter): Uneasy Sleep (Louie Records 1999) CD edited and mastered
Rob Blakeslee(new jazz): Waterloo Icehouse (Louie Records 1999) CD mastered
Computer Confluence CD-ROM, narration, sound design and music recorded and edited.
Minus: self-titled (New & Improv 1995) CD recorded, edited, mixed and mastered.

Also, I've been honored to work as a live sound engineer for the Creative Music Guild, a Portland OR arts organization dedicated to avant garde jazz.. In this capacity, I've had the pleasure of working some of the finest jazz musicians, including Dave Douglas, the Peter Brotzmann 10-tet, Steve Lacy Trio, Joseph Jarman,Oliver Lake and many others.