Jam Phelps

Jam Phelps is a Mixing and Mastering Engineer, music producer, and the proud owner of Denk Studios, tucked away on 30 acres in Southern Virginia. Her studio is dedicated to providing a welcoming space for underrepresented voices in music, with a particular focus on supporting women and LGBTQ+ artists.

With 30 years of musical experience, Jam is passionate about creating unique productions and imaginative mixes. Her expertise shines in singer-songwriter, Americana, rock, and indie genres, and she’s known for her ability to mix and master any song recorded anywhere.

Jam has been featured on platforms like Soundgirls.org, Stories in Sound, and The Music Executive podcast.

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Recent Resident Gyms
- PRODUCTION-GYM: We listened to smashing pumpkins tonight tonight
- THEORY-GYM: Went though a song by Melt that Standish brought in 👍
- OFFICE HOURS: Assisted Josephine with choosing and configuring a subwoofer. Mix feedback: rather than taming bass, sometimes we are missing an element in the high end
- OFFICE HOURS: Discussed monitoring and levels. Direct monitoring, headroom vs. gain, using compression for vocalist while recording, and getting headphone levels setup.
- INSTRUMENT-GYM: Movable bar chords, shell chords, 7th chords in many different positions
- OFFICE HOURS: Mix feedback for the song from yesterday's office hours. A few volume adjustments, and Eq for the bass, looking at the analog modeled eq plugins in logic and how to use them. Setting up a reverb channel and blending a short room and long hall or plate reverb.
- OFFICE HOURS: We listened to a song from a recording session he was working on. We dialed in settings for drum compression, vocal, and guitar eq together, and talked about how the tools were changing the sound. We went over some common compression settings for drums, and why those often work.
- BEAT-CHALLENGE: We heard three new ideas and discussed developing them with the use of found sounds (field recordings), we talked about converting a synth lead to monophonic, and we talked about turning a long improvisation into new and shorter song ideas.
- EAR-TRAINING-GYM: Identifying synth oscillators, classic drum machines, chord intervals and altered scales
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Upcoming Resident Events
- Theory Gym: w/ Nathan Rosenberg
  Oct. 01: 8am (pacific) | 11 am (eastern) | 4 pm (UK)
- Weekly 'Beat' Review: w/ Nathan Rosenberg
  Oct. 01: 7pm (pacific) | 10 pm (eastern) | 3 am (UK)
- Office Hours: w/ Nathan Rosenberg
  Oct. 01: 8pm (pacific) | 11 pm (eastern) | 4 am (UK)
- Theory Gym: w/ Nathan Rosenberg
  Oct. 02: 5am (pacific) | 8 am (eastern) | 1 pm (UK)
- Office Hours: w/ Nathan Rosenberg
  Oct. 02: 2pm (pacific) | 5 pm (eastern) | 10 pm (UK)
- Office Hours: w/ Jam Phelps
  Oct. 02: 5pm (pacific) | 8 pm (eastern) | 1 am (UK)
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Upcoming Courses
- 10/15: Mix Incubator
- 10/21: Comprehensive Program
- 10/21: Hardware & Recording Primer
- 10/21: Musician Basics Elective
- 10/23: Digital Skills Primer
- 11/03: DAW Core Skills
- 11/13: Comprehensive Program
- 11/13: Musician Basics Elective
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