Offered a dream opportunity to mix their latest album at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland, Swiss band The Fishnet Stockings this week sought out Long Island's Sabella Studios instead. The Fishnets arrived quietly in New York for much-anticipated private sessions with engineer Jim Sabella, whose musical and technical reputation is currently reaching global dimensions among young Euro talent looking to gain vital attention in New York and beyond.

The Fishnet Stockings, already signed in Switzerland and enjoying a rapidly expanding American fan-base here as their latest album is negotiated in the US, sought out Jim Sabella's signature sound-wizardry to hone their latest album, recorded at Lakeland Studios in Switzerland, to extreme perfection. According to Fishnets' management, Sabella and assistant engineer Lorenzo Famiglietti needed only moments to hook into the Fishnets' vibe as the masters rolled, initiating an instantaneous rapport with Fishnets' producer Steve Kyburz and igniting some noteworthy musical fire from day one.

With more and more eager fans already awaiting their upcoming tour, the Fishnets decided to quietly slip through New York's back door and into Sabella's tree-sheltered hideaway to get some serious artistic and technical work done before stepping out into the spotlight. Click HERE to go to our Session Gallery and see a couple of pictures of The Fishnet Stockings at Sabella. For current tour info and other cool stuff go to www.fishnetstockings.com.
--Jane Ehlers

Italian band SestoSenso recorded their latest stuff on their own time in a private digital environment in Switzerland. But when it came time to mix down, it was Sabella they sought out to get the quality of their sound up to where they wanted it to be. They had a small window of time -- but they knew they were looking for an engineer willing to take their sound and make it fatter. Bigger.

One of their objectives was to take their stuff and run it through the Neve console. Because they recorded on ADAT on their own time, they could then invest their money toward beefing it up here with vintage and state of the art tube gear.

32 tracks of music being mixed down with the use of Neve Flying Faders -- it makes the process a dream. We mixed their music down to 1/2-inch tape to give the music a little more punch. Given more time, I'd have taken the ADATs and transferred them to analog tape, as was done with This Island Earth's project.

Then you produce a way bigger sound. The Studer A-80 24-track has a sound of its own.
--Jane Ehlers