Gano's main motivation for upgrading the board was the feeling that he had outgrown the previous equipment and needed more flexibility. This new board, together with a pair of slaved sixteen-track Fostex E16 recorders, provide the studio with thirty-two tape track capability. The studio boasts a brand-new mixing board, a thirty-two channel Allen and Heath, Saber Series 32:16:16 LBGPB with auto mute on all MIDI channels. He has been at Mom's for about two-and-a-half years, following Tim Harper and Ray Striebling as engineer. His engineering spans a ten-year period, including a six-month tour freelancing for Audiovisions.
As friends asked him to record their bands, he began spending more and more time behind a recording console and less and less time playing, until he realized that he was an engineer who played instruments. His engineering career began with a four-track recorder in his own basement, mainly recording his own material. By the time he finished high school, his desire to be a stage performer had cooled and he enrolled at the University of Louisville School of Music, where he completed three years in the Music Composition Program.
Gano was first a drummer, playing with rock and top-40 bands. It turns out that that is as good a metaphor for Gano's approach to his work as any. The outboard equipment rests in a natural-finish solid-wood cabinet with dovetailed joints, hardly the usual construction methods and materials.
The main mixing board sits in the center of the room, facing the main studio window. Escher prints dot the burlap-covered walls. Howie Gano, chief engineer, leads the way into the spacious control room. Studio Review Mom's Musician's General Store and Recording StudioĬlimbing the aging, exterior gray barnwood staircase leading up to the studio over Mom's Musicians General Store, it's hard to imagine that a sophisticated and up-to-date recording facility lies at the top, but the turn through the door quickly dispels that notion.
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