Hi music-friends!

I'm offering a discount on Mastering from November through January.

If you're planning a new release and need mastering services, drop me a line!

Thanks,
Mike

petkau [at] gmail [dot] com

I just wanted to write a quick note that I was incredibly honoured to have been nominated for Recording Engineer of the Year at the 2009 Western Canadian Music Awards. 

The awards were this past weekend.  My heartiest congratulations to the very talented winner, Shawn Pierce, and the rest of the nominees.

~Mike

Its been one heckuva year, and I felt it might be a good idea to summarize all thats happened.

The Record Of The Week Club turned out waaaay better than anyone could've imagined - especially myself. The CD has just become available and plans for a release party are in the works.

I recorded new albums for the following artists:
Paper Moon
Ian La Rue & The Condor
Todd Hunter
The Other Brothers
Christopher Connelly
The Dingleberries

I mixed Ingrid Gatin's great new album.

I've done various live off the floor sessions, some of which may yet get released:
Patrick Keenan
Jaylene Johnson
Loren Hiebert & Rosemary Siemens

And demo's for:
The Furr
Demetra
Victoria Marshall

I did the sound design and co-wrote the score for Cattle Call which turned heads at Bravo Television, Toronto International Film Festival and is now going to showcase at Sundance! It was directed by Mike Maryniuk and Matthew Rankin of L'Atelier Nationale du Manitoba.

I do a bit of mastering on the side, as well:
The Magnificent Sevens
The Liptonians
Paul Bergman
Demetra

The Liptonians, one of three bands I'm in, won Outstanding Pop Recording at the Western Canadian Music Awards.

I co-produced and performed as Neil Diamond in the West End Cultural Centre's production of The Last Waltz. This was perhaps the most emotional and uplifting event I've ever had the privelage to take part in.

Myself and 12 other close friends performed the entire Dark Side Of The Moon album for the 2nd year in a row. This time we didn't get rained out and packed Old Market Square.

My band Les Jupes wrote and performed a new score (live!) for the classic 1970's animated film Fantastic Planet. It screened at Cinemateque around Hallowe'en.

Phew! Thats a lot of stuff. And its all been awesome.

So what does 2009 look like? Les Jupes are recording a brand spankin' new album with Marcus Paquin (Montreal's Silver Starling). Its gonna be nice to be a musician for once and not have to worry about mics and compressors and EQ!

Ian La Rue's new record is coming out in spring (I play bass for him.) The Liptonians have a couple ideas up their sleeve. So there'll be lots of touring, lots of trying to figure out if and how to do another Record Of The Week Club, and generally lots more fun.

GEAR LIST


RECORDERS

ProTools HD2
(Plug-Ins: Waves, Drawmer, Massey)
Reason 3.0
Otari MX5050 1/4" 2-track
Otari MX5050 1/4" 4-track
Tascam DA-88
Sony PCR-7020 DAT

CONSOLE & MONITORS

Soundcraft 6000
Yamaha NS-10 (Nearfields)
Tannoy FSM (Farfields)

OUTBOARD

Rupert Neve 5012 Mic Preamps
Universal Audio 2-610 Mic Preamps
Symmetrix 202 Mic Preamps
2 x Urei LA-22 Compressors
dbx 165 vintage Compressor
dbx 160xt Compressor
Lexicon 300
Lexicon PCM60
Sony DPS R7

MICROPHONES


Neumann U87
AKG C426
2 x AKG 414 B-ULS
2 x AKG 414 EB
2 x AKG C451
4 x AKG C460
2 x AKG D202
2 x Shure SM57
Shure SM7b
Audix D6
Beyerdynamic M88
Sennheiser MD421
Rode NT1
AKG SolidTube

INSTRUMENTS

Petrof Grand Piano
Vox AC30 amplifier
'64 Gibson Scout amplifier
'79 Music Man HD 130 Reverb amp head
SWR 4x10 bass cabinet
'79 Barcus Berry bass amplifier
Fender Telecaster
'78 Gibson RD Artist
Hammond Organ w/ Leslie
Harmonium
Edirol M30 MIDI Controller
Multivox Organ
Farfisa Organ
Crumar Cougar Organ

RECORDING PORTFOLIO

Paper Moon ~ Only During Thunderstorms
Record Of The Week Club ~ s/t
Todd Hunter~ Star
Ian La Rue & The Condor ~ TBA
Mahogany Frog ~ Do5
Twilight Hotel ~ Bethune
Ingrid Gatin ~ Broken Tambourine (mix)
Summer Of Legs ~ TBA
Old Seed ~ When You Laugh The World Laughs With You, When You Cry You Cry Alone
The Other Brothers ~ s/t
House of Doc ~ Sacred Blue
Chris Neufeld ~ Colorado Low
Darren Day ~ This Evening Tonight
Mahogany Frog ~ Live At The Mansion DVD
Mahogany Frog ~ On Blue
Mahogany Frog ~ vs. Mabus
Infectious ~ Original Soundtrack w/ Joe Silva (dir. Danishka Esterhazy)
Cattle Call ~ Original Soundtrack w/ Jaxon Haldane (dir. Matt Rankin & Mike Maryniuk)
Petkau ~ Don't Say A Word
Petkau ~ Parapet
Brandy Zdan ~ Your Words & The Weather
Jaylene Johnson ~ demo
Monica Schroeder ~ The Winter Sessions
Cat Jahnke ~ Cathartic
Ham ~ Live At The Mansion DVD
Absent Sound ~ Live At The Mansion DVD
National Monument ~ Live At The Mansion DVD
Accepting Silence ~ demo
House of Doc ~ demo
Bryan Moyer Suderman ~ My Money Talks
Kim Thiessen ~ Hope Is...
Doug & Jess ~ demo
Jeremy Proctor ~ demo
The Furr (now Salinas) ~ demo
...and more

Additional recording for:
Jet Set Satellite
Vanderveen
Ray St. Germain
Anthem Red
Poor Tree
War Party
Illusive Mind

Mastering:
Ian LaRue
In Transformation
Paul Bergman
Demetra Penner
Accepting Silence
The Liptonians

"Bethune" has been nominated at the Independant Music Awards. Congratulations to Twilight Hotel. It was a joy to produce that album with them.