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CR-2 At-a-Glance

Control Room 2 is a professional-grade production studio, suitable for anything from quick announcements for on-air use to full-blown albums. Here's what we have:

CR-2 is available to any WHRW engineer that takes CR-2 classes for a semester. These classes are held by our Production Director. You may e-mail our Production Director for more information.
WHRW's Production Studio: Control Room 2

WHRW's Control Room 2 is a professional-grade production studio. Day-to-day, we use it for recording Public Affairs programming, Public Service Announcements (PSAs), promotional announcements, and station IDs. Almost every pre-recorded WHRW spot you hear on our station is produced in CR-2.

Over the years we've had many station members who've used CR-2 for everything from simple station announcements to cutting full-length albums. With computer-based digital editing, it's now almost effortless to cut professional-sounding stuff in our humble little station.

You must be a WHRW station member to use CR-2. Once you're a cleared engineer, you can get your CR-2 clearance. Contact our Production Director for more information.

Get Ogg Vorbis. Click here. Below are some examples of stuff that's been done in CR-2. To hear these examples, you need a media player that can play Ogg Vorbis files. The most recent versions of Winamp and Sonique support Ogg Vorbis.

If you know of other records that have been produced in CR-2, drop our webmaster a line and tell us about them, so we can feature them on this page.

Moe's Meat Sandwich album cover Moe's Meat Sandwich

WHRW's first excursion into compilation CDs was released in 1992, and featured station members and their bands.

(We are seriously lacking information on this album. If you were around when it was produced, please tell us about it.)

 

Sample Tracks

1. The Meat Dept - You're Such a Loser [low] [high] [download]
2. The Acoustically Bent - Sunspiral Spinnin' [low] [high] [download]
3. Skankenstein - Who's Got Da Funk?! [low] [high] [download]
4. Mr. Clean - Red 9's and Blue 8's [low] [high] [download]
5. The Jigmasta's - The Jig is Up! [low] [high] [download]
6. Bytches and Pryx - Slide Projector Diary [low] [high] [download]
7. Gobstopper - Radical Luck [low] [high] [download]
8. Easy Boy - Cumberland Gap [low] [high] [download]
9. Vest - Toast [low] [high] [download]
10. Peter Talbert - Constitutional Convention [low] [high] [download]
11. Bong I.D. [low] [high] [download]
12. Green-Eyed Monster - Magenta [low] [high] [download]
13. Koza-Godin-Kamp Trio - Sunshower [low] [high] [download]
14. Shoehorn - Reality [low] [high] [download]
15. Brainforest - Zygomatic Nerve Jam [low] [high] [download]
16. Bonnie Highland Laddie - Bonnie Highland Laddie [low] [high] [download]
17. Blue Tribe - Deep Deep Blue [low] [high] [download]
18. Henrietta - Papa Jerry [low] [high] [download]
19. Mr. Clean - The Cowboy Song [low] [high] [download]
20. The Meat Dept. - The Monster's Gonna Get You [low] [high] [download]

Moe's Second Helping album cover Moe's Second Helping
The Veggie Pita From Pluto

Moe's Meat Sandwich was such a success for the station, they did another one.

(We are seriously lacking information on this album. If you were around when it was produced, please tell us about it.)

Sample Tracks

1. Jigmasta's - Freak It Out [low] [high] [download]
2. The Uber Cats - Blues for Rogetaurus [low] [high] [download]
3. Acid Roll - Gotta Get Some Heroin [low] [high] [download]
4. Lolita's Angels - Bleed to Invisibility [low] [high] [download]
5. the First of the Nouveau Beatnik Poets - Hiroshima 8:15 [low] [high] [download]
6. 3-D Inner Experience - Vivace Energique [low] [high] [download]
7. Jeff Hessney - Squeal [low] [high] [download]
8. Squelch - Terry Downe [low] [high] [download]
9. Groovomungus - Define for Yourself [low] [high] [download]
10. Kiddie I.D. [low] [high] [download]
11. the Acoustically Bent - I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground [low] [high] [download]
12. Nation of Salami - From Here to Infinity [low] [high] [download]
13. Big Number Two - Crispin Glover [low] [high] [download]
14. Blue Tribe - Instant Sublimation Categorically Misunderstood [low] [high] [download]
15. Abalienation - I Just Want [low] [high] [download]
16. Evil Twin - Purge [low] [high] [download]
17. Moldy Dishes - Friends of the Greenhouse Effect [low] [high] [download]
18. Lung Butter - Holes in the Sky [low] [high] [download]
19. D.J. Michael J. - the Knowledge [low] [high] [download]

Moe's Triple Bypass album cover Moe's Triple Bypass
WHRW Compilation CD #3

The third and (so far) final Moe compilation includes an original track by local music powerhouse Yolk.

(We are seriously lacking information on this album. If you were around when it was produced, please tell us about it.)

Sample Tracks

1. Jay Cooker - Locked in a Small Room w/ a Big Bag of E [low] [high] [download]
2. Lyrical Jester & Undacova w/The Yellow No. 5 Orchestra - The Books [low] [high] [download]
3. Yolk - Drive-Thru Liquor Store [low] [high] [download]
4. Call Us What You Want - No Regrets [low] [high] [download]
5. Punch Drunk Monkeys - Let's Have Another [low] [high] [download]
6. Southward Trendspotter - When Will it Come? [low] [high] [download]
7. Wookiee - Superhero Summer [low] [high] [download]
8. Just Add Water - Golden Sections [low] [high] [download]
9. Abalienation - 88 Hate [low] [high] [download]
10. Binary Test Record - Blinded [low] [high] [download]
11. Immunize By 2 - Decay [low] [high] [download]
12. Cookie Galore - Future Thing [low] [high] [download]
13. ...Stick... - Pot [low] [high] [download]
14. Spudgun - Quodlibet [low] [high] [download]
15. Sabra Vine - And the Two Shall Fall [low] [high] [download]
16. Melanie and Adam - Shed [low] [high] [download]
17. Xraystar - Someday [low] [high] [download]
18. Echo Station - Coaxial [low] [high] [download]
19. The Wooly Band - Paint [low] [high] [download]
20. Big Vic and the Fabulous Fab 5 Mo Fo's - 8:45 [low] [high] [download]
21. Shiver U.K. - Destroy Tradition [low] [high] [download]
22. Stargrove - Ripalquizelines [low] [high] [download]
23. The Damn Fine String Band - I'm Through [low] [high] [download]
Big Drew: 2001 Demo - Heaven Help Me album cover

Big Drew
2001 Demo - Heaven Help Me

Big Drew has ties to the WHRW family (his brother is DJ Waxamillion), but even without them he's a force to be reckoned with. Big Drew's 2001 demo features the local artist rapping on everything from DS and Waxamillion's Live & Direct show (the only place for real hip-hop in Binghamton) to his raging "Bad Day" and the always timely "Binghamton Sucks."

While most of the tracks were recorded by local Yolk-el Jimmy John McCabe, Drew's "Live & Direct Intro" and "Binghamton Sucks" were recorded in CR-2, with the assistance of Dan "DS" Shores and Paul "Dr. Bartlemania" Goldschmidt.

For news and new releases, visit www.strongmultimedia.com and www.mp3.com/big_drew

 

Sample Tracks

Live & Direct Intro [low] [high] [download]
Binghamton Sucks [low] [high] [download]
Phil McGovern: Exit 71 (demo) album cover

phil mcgovern
exit 71 (demo)

Phil McGovern is a Binghamton-based musician who offers a terrifyingly professional mix of techno, trance, and metal with his first solo disc, Exit 71 (demo). The disc, cut in a limited pressing for submission to record companies and radio stations, is a combination of new and solo material, and released and unreleased tracks from his time playing guitar for Angry Brick. Since Angry Brick broke up in early 2000, the chance of hearing some of that heavy, groovy, and energetic metal was almost lost. On Exit 71 (demo), Phil resurrects it with new mixes that make it sound like it should have been released anyway.

Exit 71 (demo) was recorded entirely in Control Room 2 (with live tracks recorded in WHRW's lobby) by CR-2 clear and former Technical Director Mark Scudder, who also plays bass and drums on the record. A live track was recorded on the campus of Binghamton Unversity by Neil Seligman of Binghamton Sound, Stage and Lighting (an SA organization).

Visit Phil's website at www.philmcgovern.com.

 

Sample Tracks

Breathe [low] [high] [download]
Coffeehouse Trance [low] [high] [download]
The Deep Sky [low] [high] [download]
Blue Girl [low] [high] [download]
Wet Funk [low] [high] [download]
Buried [low] [high] [download]
Crush [low] [high] [download]
Thirteen [low] [high] [download]

Angry Brick: Stereo Demonstration Record album cover Angry Brick
Stereo Demonstration Record
Songs from the forthcoming album "Becoming the Machine"

Angry Brick claim to be the first hardcore parody band, though singer Loco has jokingly retorted, "no, that's gotta be Limp Bizkit." Formed in 1999 as a joke to capitalize on the sometimes overbearing "new metal" scene, Angry Brick killed two birds with one stone on stage: While those kids who thought new metal was the only kind of music around where jumping up and down to the sound, other people who saw it as a trend could watch the first group of people, and laugh.

Here's some Angry Brick trivia: The guitar and drum tracks were recorded in the lobby of WHRW, sometimes during Daniel Jan's European Ethnic Melodies show. Daniel Jan, the most young-at-heart adult member of WHRW, would often run into the lobby between songs and headbang with Angry Brick as the tracks were being recorded.

Angry Brick released this CD to anyone who would have it, in 1999. After that, the band continued to record but broke up before the rest of the recordings could be put together in the full-length album that was originally planned. Some of those recordings appear sans-vocals on Phil McGovern's Exit 71 (demo).

 

Sample Tracks

Sick [low] [high] [download]
Rot [low] [high] [download]
Powertool [low] [high] [download]

Mark Scudder: Felix Culpa album cover Mark Scudder
Felix Culpa

Mark's second solo guitar record was recorded entirely in Control Room 2, and represented the first professionally-produced album in Mark's discography. He was tutored in the ways of Control Room 2 by Paul "Dr. Bartlemania" Goldschmidt, a longtime WHRW member and production guru. The tracks were recorded first to the Tascam DA-88, then transferred track-by-track to computer (this was before Control Room 2 had its Digital Audio Workstation) and mixed in Cool Edit Pro.

The album follows the cycle of loss and the eventual recovery common in everday life, hence the title, meaning "fortunate fall." Mark is working on a followup to Felix Culpa called Steering by Internal Stars. The album has been primarily recorded in Control Room 2, with overdubs and mixing taking place at Mark's home in Johnson City.

Visit Mark's website at www.markscudder.org for more information.

 

Sample Tracks

Summer Came Without Her [low] [high] [download]

Thank You Me album cover Thank You Me
The Mad Trivia Party Archives volume two

The Mad Trivia Party has been a WHRW institution for more than half of its existence. In 1979, it was a modest show with one on-air personality and some callers; in recent years it has expanded to include a panel for callers to stump, a speed round, trivia marathons, and skits and comedy bits with scathing social commentary.

Talk of producing a compilation CD started in 1995, but production would not start until two years later, when a WHRW DJ named Greg "Buzzbomb" Mollo took over the show. Using clips recorded from shows, and pre-produced skits, Mad Trivia Fans were given a disc called "I'm Charles Foster Kane: The Mad Trivia Party Archives 1997-1998". The disc was produced entirely at the home of one of the panelists. It was only with the second disc, "Thank You Me: The Mad Trivia Party Archives volume two," that the Mad Trivia crew piled into Control Room 2 for that extra professional sheen on the mixes.

Mad Trivia is still going strong at Radio Free Binghamton - check the Program Guide for time and day.

Sample Tracks

(Coming Soon)

If you're interested in becoming a CR-2 cleared engineer, e-mail our Production Director for more information.

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