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Marinade Enterprises

MARINADE ENTERPRISES is a music production company owned and operated by Nelson & Lorrie Kole. Capable of producing styles ranging from Baroque to Broadway and Reggae to Rap, Marinade Enterprises has created music for over 7 dozen production shows for clients ranging from Princess Cruises to Apple Computer to Intel. The scope of Marinade's work encompasses anything and everything related to the creation of music for a production show including:


-material research, selection & structure
-vocal arranging
-special material & lyrics
-dance arranging
-orchestration
-copywork
-click track creation
-synth programming, sound effects and sound design
-coordination of all aspects of recording
-hiring musicians and singers for recording
-mixing
-assembly

All aspects of music production are executed in Marinade's self-contained studio in Woodland Hills.

STUDIO SPECS:

DIMENSIONS:

Control Room: 19' X 19'
Iso Room #1: 17' X 13'
Iso Room #2/ 7.5' X 6'

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE

-Yamaha DM-2000 v2.4 96 input fully automated digital console with Studio Manager Software 2.3.5
-Genelec 1031 Powered Monitors
-Event TR6 
Powered Monitors
-Apple MacPro 5,1 two 3.46 Ghz 6-Core Intel 64GB RAM 1TB HD (master 
with Digital Performer 9.2)
-Apple Mac-mini 3.0GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7 (slave with Vienna Ensemble Pro)

-MOTU MIDI Timepiece AV
-MOTU 2408 MKII
-MOTU 1296

-Yamaha MO8 controller
-SOFTSYNTHS:
Ample Sound: Bass, Guitars, Lounge Lizard, Music Lab: Real Guitar, Real PC, Real Strat, Rob Papen: Blade, Blue, Blue 2, Predator, RG, Spectrasonics: Omnisphere, Stylus, Trillian, Toontrack: Superior Drummer 2, EZ Drummer, Native Instruments: Kontakt 5.6.6, Battery

-SAMPLES: 4 Gigabytes of orchestral, ethnic and contemporary samples from leading manufacturers


-Yamaha Acoustic C6 grand piano

-Lexicon PCM 90