At Wimberley Recording Studio we have over 60 years of combined experience in recording in about as many different environments as there are. From analog, back in the day, to the latest digital gear we’ve seen it, turned the knobs, cut the tape, and recorded on it. And with all that experience, we’ve come to one conclusion…put a great mic, well positioned, through a great preamp in front a great performance and you will most often get a great recording.

Our job at that point is to make that performance sound as good as it can without putting any additional thumbprint on it. We want to make sure you have a comfortable, relaxed, creative environment so that you can let your music flow effortlessly into the recorder. And although the gear we use today is mostly digital, we still strive found that analog tone and feel.

 

Chuck Pennington – Owner, Musician, Producer, and Engineer

Chuck has been passionate about recording since the age of 14 when he started with his buddies bouncing tracks from cassette deck to cassette deck.

 

 

Harry B-Happy Bartholomew – Head Engineer and Producer

Harry has been engineering and producing music for over 30 years,as one of the first graduates of Full Sail Recording in the early 80’s he quickly found his niche in bringing recording studio quality to the musical theater stage.In the late 80′ and early 90’s he worked as a staff engineer for the legendary Sugar Hill Recording working with literally every genre of music from classical, rock, pop, country, Celtic,Jazz, film scores etc. Harry has also spent time as a Buddhist monk, living in monasteries for much of the past 10 years.What sets Harry apart from other producers is his ability to bring out the best in the artist,” I want the listener to hear the artist,NOT ME!”. Harry’s philosophy is ” start with great equipment, add a great performance then step out of the way and allow magic to happen “.

Some of the people Harry has worked with:

• Johnnie Johnson
• Hal Ketchum
• Bo Diddleyo
• Bert Wills
• Paul English
• Don Sanders
• Ronny Cox
• Chess Records Allstars
• Delfaeyo Marsalis
• Ray Yonkin
• Anita Kruze
• Kenneth Gayle
• Rodney Waters