We're ringing in 2008 with even more good news! The Annex is proud to announce that longtime Bay Area musician/engineer/producer John Greenham has recently joined our extended family and will begin running his operations out of our famed Studio C.

John has been an active participant in the Bay Area music community since leaping the pond from the UK in 1983. He soon found himself engineering with Paul Stubblebine at Rocket Lab and later as a member of the mastering team at Paul's facility in San Francisco. More recently, John is known for his work with Stephen Jarvis's Area 51 Mastering. He has applied his craft to countless projects for artists such as Kelly Rowland, John Vanderslice, Two Gallants, Queensryche, Bettye Lavette, Los Tigres del Norte and the current Grammy nominated Pamela Rodriguez.

In John's words...

"I recently moved to Studio C at the Annex building in Menlo Park. It's a great room with a solid reputation as one of the best mix rooms in the Bay Area. I'm really looking forward to completing many successful projects there. Why, you may ask, am I moving into a traditional recording studio setting at a time when recording studios in this area have taken such a financial beating that most of them have shut up shop? Why am I not just working from home on my Pro Tools rig just like seemingly everyone else? These are good questions.

I like the idea of supporting a facility that is trying to maintain certain standards of professionalism. I don't think there's any doubt that overall the quality of recordings have declined as a result of it not being done in a proper environment. At The Annex you can still come into Studio A and track your record to 2" 24 track and mix it through the Neve V3 to 1/2" tape. It'll sound REALLY GOOD. It takes dedication to the art of recording to maintain a situation like that. I'm going to do what I can to support it."

Since joining us at the end of 2007, John's work has already spilled into our other rooms with dates of tracking two bands, Carne Cruda and Maldita Vecindad, during the month of December in our Studio A. On tracking the new Carne Cruda album, John writes at his blog...

"just finished 2 days of basic tracks for an upcoming Latin/surf/funk flavored Carne Cruda album in Studio A at (Music) Annex...It's the first recording I've done in studio A at The Annex and I enjoyed it quite a bit. The Neve V3 is a great sounding board, and they've got a REALLY good sounding pair of 813s in the control room. Pretty comfortable in there as well. Big enough for working with a five piece band like Carne Cruda."

As you can see, we are more than thrilled to have John's unique vision and experience as an addition to The Annex Studios. For more on John and his philosophies on sound recording and life, please visit him here - johngreenham.com