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PINEAPPLE ROOM STUDIO

 Pineapple Room Studio is an artist retreat style analog/digital music recording studio near New Paltz, NY with a private artist guesthouse run by Producer/Engineer Tom Deis.  Deis has produced many unique and broadcast ready albums as well as film scores and commercials.  Deis is also available for in person or remote session work, analog tape wash, mixing and mastering.

Past Work

AUDIO SAMPLES:

All titles Co-performed, Produced, Engineered, Mixed, and Mastered by Tom Deis unless otherwise indicated

John Legend:  Friendship

     (Guitar, Engineering only)

Ruth M:

Give and Take

(Co-produced by Ruth M)

James E. Smith:

Debut EP

(Mastered by Fred Kevorkian)

Jae Sole:

Golden

Falsa:

Debut

John Kill:

                   Pathos

                    (mixing/mastering)

PAST WORK

John Legend:   

          Great Great Day

    (Guitar, Engineering only)

Cosmozoa:

Ice Age Gospel

MILM:

MILMVARK,

MILM

Tangerine:

Debut LP

Elizabeth Ziman:

Land of Lost Things

Lazer Cake:

Circles EP

(Co-Production, Co-Engineering with Lazercake)

Ora Cogan:  

Crickets

(Co-Production with Ora Cogan)

Jeff Rymes:

Lonesome Pine Rides Again, 

Even if the Sun Don't Shine (Produced by Jeff Rymes)

Pineapple Island Tribesmen:

Folk songs and rituals Vol. 1

TESTIMONIALS

"Tom is an amazing arranger, producer, and mixer — and for extra credit, he self-installed a genius-songwriter-skills expansion pack in his brain.
It’s pretty rare to find someone with songwriting chops AND technical chops. And a cool dude! Tom is the whole package — Couldn’t recommend working at his studio more!"
-Tommy Siegel
Jukebox the Ghost

"I recorded I, Sunflower at Pineapple Room Studio in the Fall of 2019. I would not have been able to do it without Tom's ears, instincts, his gentle guidance, and now I have something beautiful and perfect to share for the rest of my life. He is a master of sound, a brilliant and thoughtful musician, patient, creative, and I won't record with anyone else."

-Paul Arendt

“Tom is a virtuoso musician and a technically masterful recording engineer, and a thoughtful person who is very pleasant to work with. He puts in a lot of hours staying up to date with audio knowledge that could help him be a better engineer and listener. Right away you can tell he takes his craft and the needs of the artist seriously. As a result, he’s got it all, the skill set, artistic intuition, genre versatility, patience and gentleness, mindfulness of time and efficiency, and a rigorous work ethic; virtues very rarely found in the same person in the industry. We worked with him to record our debut album, by no means a simple task as it required more finesse than usual in balancing eastern/western instruments rarely played together, and Tom dove right in. It was incredible to see him integrate everything that he brings to the table and produce an album that radio DJs in our genre of music termed “masterfully recorded, sounding super”.

-Umer Piracha, vocalist of Falsa

FILM SCORES:

Take Your Pills

Produced by Netflix,

Directed by Alison Klayman

(co-scored/co-produced with Ilan Isakov, mixing)

Brown's 'Rape LIst" revisited

Directed by Julia C Liu and Alison Klayman

(co-scored with Ilan Isakov)

My Beautiful Stutter

Directed by Ryan Gielen

(Co-scored with Peter Lalish)

 

Palace of Gold

Directed by the Sofsky Brothers

(Co-scored with Peter Lalish and David Lizmi)

Flower Punk   

 Directed by Alison Klayman

(Co-scored with Ilan Isakov

I married my family's killer

Directed by Alison Klayman

(score by Ilan Isakov, mixing)

Scenes from a Bicycle

Directed by Anisa George

Episodes of Walking the Planes

Directed by Nathan Holt and Shawn Kornhauser

RECORDING GEAR

TAPE MACHINES: MCI JH24 24 track

2 inch tape, MCI JH110C 2 track 1/4" tape

 

CONSOLE:  32 channel Studer 928

 

MICS:

Chandler REDD Mic

2 Neumann KM184

AKG 414, Matched Pair 451s, D112

Matched pair Coles 4038

Roswell Audio Mini K47s matched pair

Peluso 2247

Wunder CM7 FET

Beyerdynamic M88

Beyerdynamic M160/260mod

Heil PR20

Shure SM7, SM7B, 2 SM57s, Green Bullet

Sennheiser 441, 421, e845

Electrovoice RE-20

SE VR1 Ribbon, V7 Dynamic

MXL V69ME

Audio Technica AT4040

Matched pair Rode NT5

Mesanovic Model 2A ribbon

HARDWARE:

Sonic Farm Xcalibur JC Preamps

Sonic Farm Berliner Preamps

Heritage Audio Successor

Hendyamps Michelangelo Mastering EQ

Neve 1073 Preamp

API 550a EQ

CAPI VP28 red dot Preamp

Vintech 473 4 preamp unit

IGS ONE-LA 500 Compressor

Charter Oak SCL-1 Compressor

IGS Tubecore mastering edition

TK audio TK-lizer mid side EQ

IGS Rubber bands stereo inductor EQ

Overstayer Stereo Field Effect

Overstayer MAS

Smart C2 Compressor

Sytek MPX-4A

Dangerous 2bus LT

Demeter Real Reverb D spring reverb

Warm Audio EQP-WA EQ x 2

ART Multiverb LT

Guyatone Spring Reverb Unit

Antelope Orion 32 plus

Mac Pro

 

SOFTWARE:

Logic Pro X

Protools 11

Plug-ins by UAD, Fabfilter, Slate, Waves, Soundtoys, Izotope

Anchor 1
Anchor 2

INSTRUMENTS

GUITARS:

Guild Jumbo 12 string

Gibson Les Paul w/bustbuckers and bigsby

Fender Stratocaster Custom 69 pickups

Dipinto Belvedere Curtis Novak Guyatone Pickups

Teisco Del Ray EP8T

Rickenbacker 360/12 12 string

Ibanez JSM10 w/lollartron pickups

Guild 1976 Spruce top Nylon Mark II

Gretsch Electromatic

1960s Gibson 12 made 6 string acoustic

Martin 00016 special

Martin dreadnaught

Martin 12 String Acoustic

La Patrie Nylon string

PERCUSSION:

vintage Jenco vibraphone

full birch drumkit including crown wood snare, Ludwig superphonic and acrolyte snare, Tama rockstar snare, hats, trash hats, 20 inch 60's Zildjan ride, Powerbeat Ride, Byzance sands crash.

Indian Dhol, Shakers, Tamborines, Cowbells, Ghanaian Djembe, Tablas, etc 

AMPS:

Fender Bassman 4x10 tweed

Vox AC15C1 White Bronco creamback speaker

Fender Blues Jr/Jensen Speaker

70's Traynor MK3

Traynor YCV50

Mesa Nomad 100watt head

/2x12 cab

Aguilar Tone Hammer 500

Schroeder Cabinet, Trace/eliot 4x12 cab

BASSES:

Vox F-hole 60s bass

1970 Fender Mustang bass

Squier Bass VI

 

KEYBOARDS/SYNTHS:

Sequential Circuits Prophet 6

Wurlitzer Electric Piano

Moog Subsequent 37 CV

MFB Dominion 1

Vintage Korg Mono/Poly

Korg Arp Odyssey

Crumar T1 Organ

Yamaha U3 Piano

80s Casio 304

OTHER: 

Chinese Pipa

Irish Bouzouki

3.5 octave Harmonium

30 string celtic harp

4 string McNally Strumstick

Gibson Banjolin

Oud

Mandolin

Soprano and tenor recorders

PEDALS:  

Smallsoundbigsound Buzz, Montreal assembly count to 5

Walrus Audio: Lilian Phaser, Monument tremolo Jupiter fuzz, 385 overdrive, Julia vibrato/chorus, Fathom reverb

Boss: waza delay, waza tuner, waza chorus, VE20 vocal performer, DD6, Bogner Lagrange, Line6 DL4, MXR carbon copy deluxe, Hudson electronics Gospel Bomb, Earthquaker devices Afterneath and disaster transport, Strymon Bigsky

EHX: 70's opamp big muff, holy grail, pitchfork, voice box vocoder

Dunlop: octavio, mr crybaby

Zvex box of rock

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