Record your songs professionally, affordably: Saturday, December 15th, 10am-6pm.    In a bygone era in the music industry, when a songwriter wanted to pitch a song to a publisher or an artist, she needed a “demonstration version” of the song.  Often a simple guitar and vocal or piano and vocal recording, this demonstration, or “demo” as it came to be called, would allow all involved to make educated decisions about if and how to spend money and time making a commercial recording of the song.

International pop recordings, indie film scores, singer/songwriter records, songwriter demos, remote drum tracks, jazz recordings, hip hop vocals, mixing, Americana band full-length, pop-country EP, rock band singles, voice and production classes and lessons...so many great sounds and songs were recorded in The Sound Boutique Studios this spring and summer 2011.  Write-ups and wrap-ups coming soon!  To tour the facilities or discuss recording your project here, call 818-848-7664.

Rob Seals produced, record, and mixed the 6-song debut EP for neo-soul artist JenikaEve. The Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter has co-written a full-length's worth of songs with Seals, and this collection features five of those originals plus a sixth song penned by her father, David Andersen. The record was mastered by Grammy-winner Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering in Hollywood. The poetic collection blends Jenika's sultry, emotional voice with Seals' intricate acoustic guitar work, all over the deep grooves of drummers Billy Hawn and Ryan Brown and John Mayer bassist Sean Hurley. Add Krishan Khalsa's world percussion, Beth Balmer on keys and…

Finnish-born and LA-based singer/songwriter RUUT spent a couple of winter afternoons at The Sound Boutique Studios, first co-writing with Rob Seals, playing piano on a Seals production, and then delivering a breath-taking, one-take performance of her song "A Year in California" for the New York Songwriters Circle Compilation CD.  Rob Seals recorded and mixed the track, with Ruut at the piano. After wrapping her role in Iron Man 2 she turned her attention back to her first love:  writing and singing at the piano.   She completed pre-production for The Steinway Sessions on the Steinway B at The Sound Boutique Studios…

NYC-based singer and songwriter Paget Knebel  finished a four-song collection of originals with Rob Seals in a funky, old school sound the two describe as "Grace Kelly sings John Legend.""Paget was a songwriting student of mine," Seals notes. "We began to work on these songs over the internet for a number of months before her January trip to record with me here in LA.  It quickly became clear that she had a gift for melody and a profound drive to create her own style of music.  Between every session she always had new ideas to send me.  If her "homework"…

Recorded at The Sound Boutique Studios and released June 2011: See the gallery of studio shots. This from Paste Magazine, now an online-only source for all things music and culture: On Before We Land, the new album from Alabama’s Brighter Things, singer-songwriter Steven Jackson’s earnest Americana is fleshed out by a who’s who of touring musicians. Featuring Jeff Coffin (Dave Matthews Band), Sean Hurley (John Mayer), Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter) and Eric Heywood (Ray LaMontagne, SonVolt), Before We Land is an accomplished record of longing and possibilities.  - Paste Magazine www.BrighterThings.com

Juliet Howland, who has appeared in films such as Iris, The Painted Veil,  and V for Vendetta, completed the recording of her debut CD at The Sound Boutique Studios at The Songwriting School of Los Angeles. The full-length CD A Promise of Return contains eleven original songs produced, recorded, and mixed by Rob Seals.  Ms. Howland plays guitar, piano, and flute on the recording in addition to singing and composing her own songs.  The collection also contains a few cinematic instrumental pieces.  She is accompanied by Ryan Brown on drums and percussion, Joe Karnes on upright and electric bass, Beth…