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Sammy Fielding: Studio Owner
Sammy is a musician, engineer, and full time owl wizard. Musical from the beginning, he played many different instruments growing up, until forming, performing, and recording with various punk/metal bands in high school. At age 16 Sammy fell in love with recording music, deciding on audio production as a career path, and to one day start a recording studio. It took some years, but this dream would come to fruition. Hence, Ancient Owl Audio! Sammy built out and opened the Berkeley studio under the name Robot Envy Studio (later changed to Ancient Owl Audio) in 2008 after moving to the bay area to study sound at Expression College For Digital Arts. Since then he has worked with an incredible amount of musicians and producers from around the world. Sammy has also worked at a handful of other bay area studios including Megasonic Sound, Opus Studios, Bay Records, Harrison Street Records, and Pine Mountain Studios. In 2018, he purchased some raw land in rural Nevada County, and has been building a homestead and new Ancient Owl mountain studio on the property. Most recently, Sammy and a group of friends started The Owl Cave, an all-ages non-profit music venue and recording studio in Grass Valley, CA. Sammy’s expertise spans from recording, mixing, and mastering music, to commercial voice-over and post-production work, to installing and operating live sound systems, and of course designing and building audio facilities. The Ancient Owl studios are Sammy’s haven to do what he loves. The only thing he enjoys as much as playing music is working with other musicians to capture and preserve their creative visions.
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