Outsider Recordings

Services & Gear

Album production, session guitar, and live sound — outdoors, indoors, or anywhere in between.

Album Production

  • Records up to 20 channels simultaneously
  • High-end preamps and analog processing (CAPI, Hairball Audio, DIYRE, Daking)
  • Collection of modern and vintage microphones
  • Fully self-contained and mobile rig
  • Expandable battery power for 2+ full days of full-band tracking, with solar options being explored
  • Works outdoors (off-grid), indoors in unconventional spaces (cabins, churches, etc.), and in professional studios
  • Available for overdubs, post production, and mixing as well

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A van parked in a grassy meadow at the edge of an evergreen forest
The control room — a van at a dispersed campsite near Salmon la Sac.

Session Guitar

Ben is available for session guitar work — remote or in person, on your record or his rig.

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Live Sound

Live sound engineering for shows and events, backed by years of touring and front-of-house experience.

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Location & Logistics

  • Based in Seattle, WA — available to travel
  • Budget: scoped per project based on distance to location, permitting, accommodations, and overall scope
  • Philosophy: non-disruptive to natural surroundings; flexible to whatever the client's needs are

The rig in the field

Session #1 — Salmon la Sac, WA. Shot on Super 8.

A guitarist in headphones and a pink cap plays acoustic guitar on a mossy forest slope, a windscreened microphone on a stand in front of him
Tracking acoustic guitar among the pines.
A vocalist stands at a large condenser microphone in a shock mount, surrounded by deep green forest
A vocal take, deep in the green.
A guitar amplifier and pedalboard sit alone on open ground at the edge of the forest, cables running through the grass
Electric guitar, no walls.
A deer wanders through tall sunlit grass at the edge of the trees
A visitor between takes.
A drum machine rests on a cooler at the open door of the van, gear cases stacked inside
The control room lives in the van.
The van parked in a grassy meadow at the edge of an evergreen forest, seen through tall grass
Basecamp near Salmon la Sac.