This week we (and when I say “we”, I really mean mostly Jenny!) put in new flooring in the studio. Conventional wisdom on recording acoustic music holds that such instruments sound better, or more live, on reflective surfaces. Most of the nicer studios prefer hardwood to other types of reflective surfaces, so that’s the way […]

Posted on November 19th, 2007 by pleasantvalley
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Hi folks,
Well, some nice news for today. Pleasant Valley Music old-time artist Mt. Diablo String Band is now a Squirty Records recording artist! Yesterday we had a visit from the band, consisting of ‘Meistro’ Harry Liedstrand (fiddle), Carl Pagter (banjo), Harry’s wife Cindy (guitar) and son Terrell (mandolin), Carl’s son Corbin (mandolin), and PVM’s […]

Posted on November 13th, 2007 by pleasantvalley
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Yep, that’s right. ANOTHER one! The girls like doing promo stuff. Their task this weekend was to get a shot of the band playing live for promotional material purposes. After all, we didn’t have a photo of the band performing live with BanjoBoy …
Our buddy George Goodell showed up at PVM to do some of […]

Posted on November 12th, 2007 by pleasantvalley
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We had a wonderful visit Sunday afternoon with our old friend T. Tyce Tennessee, announcer for Pleasant Valley Music. T. Tyce was here at Pleasant Valley home base, in the Squirty Records Studios, for some voice-over work and to interview Matt & George about the Pleasant Valley Boys, all as part of the forthcoming “Pleasant […]

Posted on November 6th, 2007 by pleasantvalley
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