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.
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)
PAST WORK
John Legend:
Great Great Day
(Guitar, Engineering only)
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:
Produced by Netflix,
Directed by Alison Klayman
(co-scored/co-produced with Ilan Isakov, mixing)
Directed by Julia C Liu and Alison Klayman
(co-scored with Ilan Isakov)
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
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