With Me Every Day

All original songs by Ryan Hubener
Ryan Hubener - Guitar/Lead Vocals
Riley Voth - Drums/Backup Vocals
Drew Johnson - Bass
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered at Fountainworks Recordings. Kansas City, MO

Way Down

Album: Let's Not and Say We Did. All instrumentation and vocals by Ryan Hubener. Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered at Fountainworks Recordings. http://fountainworksrecordings.com/

Stars Align

Words Kill

Album: Let's Not and Say We Did. Song by Ryan Hubener. Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered at Fountainworks Recordings. http://fountainworksrecordings.com/
Special thanks to Craig Haning for the drums on this track

Judgment is Free

Living with Nothing to Say

Money Tree

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Living in a Cave

Album: Let's Not and Say We Did. Song by Ryan Hubener. Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered at Fountainworks Recordings. 
http://fountainworksrecordings.com/
Special thanks to Craig Haning for the drums on this track

Black Out

*** The DirtMic-01 is now available to buy from Reverb reverb.com/au/shop/draliensmith ***

This is an audio example of the DirtMic-01 being used on drums. The recording session was for the band Rinehearts and the song is 'I'm Not There'.... https://www.facebook.com/Rinehartsband

This is a 13 second loop pulled direct from the mix session to show you how the DirtMic-01 sounds, various mic combinations are used as the loop repeats. This is what you're hearing....

00:00 All Instruments, DirtMic-01 On
00:13 Solo'd DirtMic-01 In Mix with EQ and ADT effect
00:26 DirtMic-01, No EQ, No Effect
00:40 Drums, DirtMic-01 Off
00:53 Drums, DirtMic-01 On
01:07 All Instruments, DirtMic-01 On
01:20 All Instruments, DirtMic-01 Off
01:34 All Instruments, DirtMic-01 On
01:47 DirtMic-01, No EQ, No Effect

In this mix I am using the DirtMic-01 to add some 'excitement and roominess' to the drums. By adding an Automatic Double Track or ADT effect with the TDR Proximity plugin, it also provides some width.

The picture is of Ross the drummer for Rinehearts and the setup we used to record his drums. Its a unbranded ribbon mic as the overhead centre and a pair of 12 Gauge Microphones 12G50 omni's as the 'side' overheads. No snare or tom mics and the kick has an E602 inside and the DrAlienSmith Subkick-02 outside.

DirtMic-01 Test on Drums

The Ryan Express started out in 2006 as an acoustic singer-songwriter project. At this time, exploration went into sound engineering which resulted in the creation of the recording, mixing, and mastering studio known as Fountainworks Recordings. The studio, operated by Ryan Hubener, provided a creative environment for the production of the first album titled “Please Be Seated” which was released in 2008.

Over the next 10 years, songwriting evolved and new compositions were self-produced culminating in the 2nd studio album titled “Let’s Not and Say We Did”. With this album, instrumentation was filled out to create a full band production. During this time, Fountainworks Recordings also experienced advances and upgrades in technology which boosted the production quality.

January 2021, a close friend passed away under traumatic and unexpected circumstances. This fueled the creative writing process, and many new compositions came forth again from The Ryan Express. From 2021 – 2023 recording, mixing, and mastering took place to self-produce the album titled “Underground”. This album performed solely by Ryan Hubener, reflects on the emotions and internal turmoil during this time.

With the latest EP titled I Guess So, The Ryan Express returns to the sound that started it all... heavy punk rhythms fused with punishing high energy guitar-driven rock. Ryan Hubener collaborated with Riley Voth (drums/backup vocals) and Drew Johnson (bass) on this release.