Show Us Your Junk! Ep. 32 - Dave Trumfio (Kingsize Sound Labs) | EarthQuaker Devices
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- Опубліковано 17 лют 2022
- Throughout February, EQD's "Show Us Your Junk" video series is showcasing the "Rock Block." It's an actual city block in Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood that houses the studios of veteran producers, mixers, and musicians Aaron Espinoza (The Ship), Rob Schnapf (Mant Sound Studios), and Dave Trumfio (King Size Sound Labs). Also included is the Rock Block "OG" Manny Nieto, whose Suplex Audio has since moved to a new location.
Dave Trumfio opened his first version of his Kingsize Sound Labs in his native Chicago before eventually migrating to L.A. and setting up the new Kingsize in the Rock Block. Dave has worked with an impressive array of artists, including American Music Club, Wilco, Kool Keith and Kutmasta Kurt, and Sia. He now oversees eight engineers, and Kingsize's client list includes Andrew Bird, Danger Mouse, Goo Goo Dolls, Kamasi Washington, Sleater-Kinney, Ty Seagull, and many more.
Dave considers his studio to be a mix of old school and new school, and as he takes us through the studio, marvel at all the cool instruments, gear, and other interesting audio junk.
Check out Dave's Talk About Your Junk on the EQD Blog. for more insights, including the psychology of working with bands, the importance of getting real-world studio experience, the "diaphragm-to-speaker ratio," and his lifelong gear addiction. www.earthquakerdevices.com/bl...
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Nailing the content, EarthQuaker..
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If EQD doubled their content output, I’d be three times as happy.
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2 new show us your junk in a week?! This is one of my favorite series ever, keep'em coming.
This is just such a great series, each one you’re doing, every time. Ultimately this will build into an oral history on film of these excellent practitioners working on the music of this particular time. Bravo EQD.
thanks for checking them out!
All thoses magnificent gears and collector stuffz... a dreamy studio !
Another great guyz, kind and authentic, with a real rock life style !
Great reporting as always, thanks EQD !
thanks for tuning in!
I recently did a session at the Chicago Kingsize and it was incredible. Great ambiance, great gear, lots of vintage stuff.. very low-key location and surrounding area. Perfect for live tracking! The live room is sooo unique, just like he described. Very large, but not a lot of reverb... my ideal environment. Short, dialed-in reflections, and it just makes whatever you're playing more musical. The drum booth (large booth) is kinda strange though, in a good way. It sounds more like a live room than a booth. I was a bit surprised how large and cavernous it sounds, despite only being a 12x14ish room.
I didn't get a chance to work in the main control room, I was upstairs in B, but the whole place looks and sounds absolutely beautiful!
Dave is such an awesome dude! Was so fortunate to spend some time checking out various studios he’s involved in a few years back. Kingsize, 64 Sound, Gold Diggers are all such unbelievable spaces.
nice!
Show Us Your Junk are the best music videos on youtube. So cool to see the spaces and meet the weirdos. Super clean shooting and cutting.
that means a lot to us! thanks for your support!
Hey! My first tour was with Dave’s band Pulsars opening for Weezer- He used to play the opening song every night!!
ha nice
I like Dave's lil improvs, esp. warm leatherette. Love this series!
Awesome to hear his wife's side of the story and how she helped build the studio while pregnant! That kind of support is beautiful.
ever notice most of the times the people who are sucessful had support of their loved ones ?
lol at the car cutting him off in the intro
TapeOp is such a great magazine. Not the first time it has been referenced on this channel.
Lovely guy and a lovely studio. These videos are wonderful..a real inspration. Thank you for posting.
Our pleasure 🥹
this "show us your junk" series is sooo good! (i like all the humans in it!)
thanks for watching the humans!
I love this studio and all of the people you profile in this series. These are truly the raddest people who are recording these days, keep ‘em coming!!!!!!!!!
wil dew! thanks for the love!
I love these videos.
Thank you EQD!
thank YOU
Thank you very much. “Warm Leatherette” - rad!
thanks for joining us!
I always love working in this space! Y'all didn't cover the mics!! One of the best mics they have is the Royer sf-24v, gorgeous stereo room mic🔥
This was great - Really inspired me and sent my day in a better direction. Thanks!
So glad!
Another banger
Beautiful story. Much blessings and success Ronna & Dave ❤
I am so grateful for the times I got to work with Dave in Chicago recording Certain Distant Suns. Could not ask for a more awesome, talented, kind, hilarious, unique & serious individual to work with. Dave truly has a magical energy to him when it comes to music and recording. A master and his craft.
He would also always be our main sound guy when we played shows in the city, usually at Metro(again in Chicago). An amazing venue for sound, with a master at the helm for our shows was something so many other bands were not lucky enough to get. A true blessing.
Thanks so much for making this episode with Dave. A++
Dope episode!
glad u enjoyed
great episode
thanks for watching!
Wow, The Pulsars have been a part of my life for almost 25 years so it’s cool to finally put a face to the music. Thanks for sharing, Tim.
Very cool
I love show us your junk
thanks for supporting the channel!
What a great episode... You guys are knocking it out of the park with Manny Nieto and now this! Does anyone know what the song is playing in the opening? Thx.!
Insane to actually see the inside of the rock block I live up the street and remember as a teen waiting for the bus to go to school and always seeing people bringing in gear and always wonder how it was in there. Cool to see. Wonder if they ever had to deal with all the crazy gang shit that was going on in early 2000's.
Such a cool space to make music...
indeed
damn out of all the show us your junks so far id love to record here most
you should!
Pure Inspirado.
Wow, Seagrape Studio..... that became Hot Ham and Cheese Recording Co. Massive tracking room with lots of great corners. Worked their throughout the 90's as both an engineer and an artist - it was a super homey vibe. HH&C didn't keep the reverb plates, sadly.
this guy is awesome
yep pretty much
Subscribed 👍
Great Episode! I loved that Pulsars album from the 90's.
thanks for checking it out
kinda want to record a new wave record now!
I think the studio is actually in Glassell Park, not Silver Lake.
Just awesome
Nice Wolfy's hat.
This is a good one.
yup!
12:25 listening to producers do this kind of shit gives me faith that i can make it in the music biz lol
Cool video, Mr. Trumfio. Hope all is well.
Good stuff.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great place.
It really is!
I love the Pulsars. I saw them play in St. Louis -- I think it was at The Side Door -- sometime in the 1990s.
The Gloryhound!
You guys should get your ass over to Iceland and check out a studio in a tiny fjord in the east part of Iceland called Stöðvarfjörður. There a guy called Vinny Wood has build a studio, Studio Silo in an old fish factory. He is a genius, and makes all kinds of crazy stuff him self, preamps, pedals and a lot more.
sounds rad thanks for the heads up
we have a fish factory studio in london too where i cut a few jazz records to 24track. it's next door to a fish production warehouse but im not sure of the exact history of what the studio warehouse space used to be :)
Wow! He was very blessed to have worked with Chisholm.
yeah midwest buy and sell. Got an old SG there.
X15!
Ok ok.. Moog oscillators in Fender Rhodes.. mind blown..
muahahahahhaahaha
Taillight out...
u know how much a taillight cost in a 1964 1/2 Mustang?
0:12 Get that tail light fixed!
All that gear, and we're NOT gonna talk about the N64 stuff casually laying there? For shame, EQD.
the what now
Idk that studio looked pretty sketchy
funny to see Ted Nugent's Cat Scratch Fever album in your album rack!
My cousin Dave is best in business. I’m kinda biased !!!
You!
Or even goddamn UA-cam blocks my comments
Hey now i let it break on through to the other side
When Jim Morrison is on UA-cam haha