Hi, I'm Cory Gehrich and this is my recording studio. I'm a musician and audio engineer with a love for recording, striving to provide excellent service at affordable rates, in a comfortable and inviting space.
I got the music bug at a young age. My older brothers both played music and would give me tapes and CD's of Black Flag, the Descendants, the Germs, TSOL, etc. Trust me, as a young kid I thought I was really cool. When I was 12 I started a band, whom I would end up playing with until I was in my early 20's. We gained some steam in San Diego in the early 2000's, regularly opening for national punk and metal bands. Ah, the glory days...
We recorded our first demo when we were 13 and went on to record a handful of EP's and full lengths at various studios in San Diego. That's when I first really got the bug. I always loved performing, but recording was something else. Something that felt really special. It was like burying a time capsule, but instead of digging a hole on the weekend with your khaki-shorts-wearing-dad in the backyard, we were hanging out at studios on school nights with dudes who were....questionable in character at best.
I started going to community college in the Bay Area, bouncing around to four different schools until finally transferring to UC San Diego, where I got a BA in Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts. Sounds fancy but basically my time there was spent studying computer music programming (Pure Data, for all the nerds out there) and audio engineering. After that I did a Master's at Mills College in Oakland, getting an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media.
And now here I am, providing the Portland music scene with a comfortable space to cut demos, EP's, LP's, and sharing my knowledge and love of recording through lessons and instruction.
In addition to engineering I also play guitar, bass and drums and am always happy to write and play parts on recordings and to help solo musicians develop their songs into fuller productions. I also know tons of musicians and can help find specific instruments you might be looking for on a song.
I look forward to working with you!
