http://www.hoaxproductions.com Producer / Engineer / Mixer / Hoax Productions Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:15:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So the year is almost over ... Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays I finished mixing Te'te' in Montreal by the end of November. Then had a quick stop in NYC and saw friends and family there on the Hudson. I got home just in time to do some recording and mixing on ... http://www.hoaxproductions.com/2009/12/22/happy-holidays-and-happy-2010-from-ross-hogarth/ Man oh Man, its a blur right now. The past few months have been a fast paced blur. I have been up in Portland recently making a new record with Te'Te' a very cool organic French artist. Steve Berlin of Los Lobos is producing. We have Davey Faragher on bass, from Elvis ... http://www.hoaxproductions.com/2009/10/17/fall-2009/ Hey y'all Summer is here in the city .... HOT AND FUN I just spent a really fun couple of weeks at Village Recorder working on a fun project that is a collaboration between John Mellencamp and Stephen King with T Bone Burnett producing the music. Ghostbrothers blog Stephen King blog John has been developing ... http://www.hoaxproductions.com/2009/06/30/ghost-brothers-of-darkland-county/ My dear friend Stephen Bruton succombed to cancer on Saturday morning May 9. He was a dear friend,partner in crime and music and I miss him dearly http://www.hoaxproductions.com/2009/05/15/rest-in-peace-stephen-bruton/ Happy Easter, since the last post was Valentines Day, I felt Easter was an appropriate day to post again. All good in the hood. Everything is Everything.... and all that The Sick Puppies record is fully tracked and it kills so far and is being mixed as we speak. I am still marching ... http://www.hoaxproductions.com/2009/04/12/easter-means-spring-has-sprung/ Love Love Love all we need is love..... On this wonderful Valentines day morning, I have just finished up another 2 plus weeks on the new Doobies record. Studio D in Sausalito worked great for the overdubs. Some of the highlights were some of the outside musicians. Billy Paine of Little Feat played some amazing ... http://www.hoaxproductions.com/2009/02/14/valentines-day-update/ A BUSY 2009 NEW YEAR , A GOOD START ON GOOD ART Hey Gang. The new year has blasted out of the box. I started right away tracking drums at Ocean Studios with Matt Laug for producer Gary Clark and artist RyanDan. Before going back with The Doobie Brothers, I squeezed a ... http://www.hoaxproductions.com/2009/01/26/44/ HAPPY HOLIDAYS !!!! Merry Christmas,Happy Chanukah, Happy Kwanzaa and Happy New Year ! Peace to all and lets make the next year a great one !!!! http://www.hoaxproductions.com/2008/12/15/40/ It has been a long road going down, and the record is done. The Damon Castillo Band record "Laurel Lane " is done will be released this month. I finished the mixing and mastering last week and we are all very proud of it. Check out The Damon Castillo Band page on myspace is ... http://www.hoaxproductions.com/2008/10/05/damon-castillo-the-record-is-done/ Its hot and its summer here in LA and I have been busy. I just returned from a couple of weeks in John McFee's studio recording a new Doobie Brothers record with producer Ted Templeman. We won't be done till next year probably but it was good to get more ... http://www.hoaxproductions.com/2008/07/25/summertime-in-doobieland/