New, Improved Recording
New, Improved Recording is a recording studio in Oakland, California, near the borders of Emeryville and Berkeley in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.
History
First established in 2003 by Bay Area musicians/engineers Eli Crews and John Finkbeiner, New, Improved Recording became home to many well-known independent productions. The studio was once home to En Vogue but found a radical change in sound and clientele once turned over. The studio employs both analog and digital recording, allowing a wide range of engineers, musicians and projects to work there.
Some of the more notable acts to have used the studio include: Deerhoof, Beulah, Thee More Shallows, Why?, Erase Errata, Mike Watt, Rogue Wave, Subtle, Anathallo, The Ebb and Flow, Scrabbel, Society of Rockets, Crime, XBXRX, and Love Is Chemicals.
Engineers
- Eli Crews
- John Finkbeiner
- Jay Pellicci
- Christopher Cline
- Aaron Prellwitz
Discography
- AIDS Wolf
- Anathallo
- Apache
- Beulah
- Carta
- Citay
- Crime
- Cryptacize
- The Curtains
- Deerhoof
- Dreamdate
- Erase Errata
- The Invisible Cities
- Miles Kurosky
- Love Is Chemicals
- Scrabbel
- Sholi
- The Society of Rockets
- Thee More Shallows
- Tune-Yards
- Why?