The People
SymPul Studio is run by Derek Pulliam and Dustin Symes. They are two family men who have several years of combined experience in the local Alberta music industry. Naomi Pulliam is the business manager and handles the books.
Derek Pulliam is a talented free lance musician who has played and worked hard at home and on the road. Pully has over 20 years experience as a live musician and audio engineer. He has ongoing work with Nero Productions, Tubeman Productions, and plays with Tim Buckley, Bryan Bayley and the Circus, Paul Jensen, The Dim Witted Heroes, and Steven James Larsen. Derek's musical abilities as a session player can also be heard on as many as 15 recording projects on instruments such as the stand-up bass and guitar.
Dustin Symes has 6+ years of experience in live audio production and recording production. His training consists of many countless hours of self-teaching and critical listening as well as being a part of the recording program at Prairie Bible College in Three Hills. Having finished an electrical apprenticeship he is eager to continue bringing excellence to the music world with audio installations that include electrical connections that make sense.
The Spaces
We do our work in two spaces, one focused more on tracking and obtaining a quality sound and one for editing and making those sounds better.
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In Calgary, AB Derek Pulliam operates our main studio space. Just newly renovated in 2009, it has a performance room, coffee bar, bathroom, and a well equipped control room. This studio is ready for tracking, composition, producing, or final mix down. In the control room resides a Pro Tools HD workstation with computing power coming from a Mac Pro, Pro Tools HD 9, Avid HEAT and SSL Duende processing. See pictures. |
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In Olds, AB we have a small mixing/editing space for small projects and intermediate work that only requires a smaller setup. It is a Pro Tools 8 LE workstation on a Mac Pro with a DIGI002 console. Dustin runs and maintains this space.
It is benefited by a comfortable room in which to work and SSL Duende processing.