Ahren has been recording himself since the age of 15 when he bought a cheap interface and installed recording software on his parents computer. Since that day he has been hooked.
He is comfortable on “both sides of the glass,” as a session musician, as a recording engineer, and often both!
Ahren has a modest yet highly effective home studio setup with which he has recorded many many many projects, many of which he plays with and some he just records. He occasionally packs up his gear to do onsite recordings – in Art Galleries, Book Stores, Concert Halls, Churches, Sheds, Garages, Basements.
He has many recording engineering credits, many of which can be found on the Discography Page
Ahren is available as a session musician on: Guitar (Acoustic, Electric, Classical), Pedal Steel, Dobro, Mandolin, Lap Steel, Bass (electric and sometimes Upright). This can either be done remotely via Dropbox or in your studio.
Ahren is also available as an engineer for in studio recording, location recording, mixing, video sessions, etc.
He is also an adept arranger, specializing in string arrangements. String Arrangement Demo Reel
To schedule a session please email: abuchheister@gmail.com
Instruments:
Gretsch Vintage 1960’s Drum Kit (24″ kick)
Rogers Holiday 20″ Kick
Ludwig Acrolite snare (Vintage)
Fender Rhodes Mk1 (Vintage)
Wurlitzer Electric Piano (Vintage)
Omnichord OM-84
Microkorg
GFI D10 Ultra Pedal Steel
Dobro 60D (Vintage)
Flatiron Mandolin (Vintage)
Marching Glockenspiel
Steel Drum
Basses:
Fender JMJ Mustang
Ibanez Blazer (vintage)
“Not a Hofner” Violin Bass
Various Acoustic and Electric Guitars
AMPS:
1967 Fender Deluxe Reverb (Vintage)
Victory V35 Copper
Allen Brown Sugar
Juke Coda
Epiphone Pathfinder
Ampeg V4
Computer:
Macbook Pro
Monitoring:
PMC Result 6
KRK Subwoofer
Headphones by Sony, AKG, Slate, Shure, Sennheiser
Preamps:
Hairball Lola (x2)
Hariball Copper (x2)
Capi VP28 (x2)
Capi VP26
Universal Audio 610 Tube Preamp
Antelope Discrete 8
Focusrite Octopre
Cloudlifter
Crimson Audio 7up
Microphones:
Barbaric BA47 (Neumann U47 clone)
Barbaric BA49 (Neumann M49 style)
Shure Sm7b (Anser Audio Mod)
Line Audio Cm4 (x2)
Alder Audio H44 (x2)
Sennheiser 441-2 (Vintage)
Sennheiser 421 N (Vintage)
Sennheiser MD421 II
Electro Voice 635a
Electro Voice 654a
Electro Voice 660
Neumann TLM 102
Slate VMS (modified by Shannon Rhodes)
Samar AL95 ribbons (x2)
3U Warbler MKIV
3U GZ67
3U CM-100 (x2)
3U Warbler 127 (x2) Cardioid and Omni Capsules
Kel HM3-C (x2)
Heil Pr 40
Heil Pr22
Heil Pr 37
Cascade Fathead Ribbon (Lundahl Transformer)
Shinybox Ribbon
OGMC Ribbon
Groove Tubes GT 66
Little Blondie (x2)
Shure SM57
Shure SM57 Granelli
Shure SM58
Shure Beta 58
Shure Beta 52
Shure KSM8
Shure Unidyne III
Shure KSM 27
Shure KSM 109
Studio Projects B1
Sennheiser e906 (x2)
Sennheiser e935 (x3)
Sennheiser e945
MXL 604
12 Gauge Green
Audix I5 x2
Audix D2
Audix D6
Outboard
Tree Audio LC/1
Pete’s Place BAC 500
JLM LA500
Kush Electra
Electrodyne 511
Roland Space Echo (Vintage)
Software
Logic
Izotope Ozone 7
Izotope RX
Slate Everything Bundle
Acoustics:
Owens Corning Wall Panels and Gobos