Private Ear Recording Studio has been in business in Key West Florida since 1983, recording the rich and famous as well as the poor and infamous. The vast array of projects have included hundreds of albums for musicians, national TV ad voice overs, background music production for TV and movies, sound efx for countless theater productions, radio jingles and beer commercials, clearing up tapes for law enforcement agencies, puppet show soundtracks, video game efx and music, bagpipes, dulcimers, harps, dozens of drunk and crazed writers screaming TROPO!, poets, sermons, helicopters, jets, dogs, industrial tools, dolphins, literary and motivational seminars, you name it...

 

Studio and Live Sound Clients (Partial Listing)

Alvin Ailey Dance

Amanda Pabyan

Amandla Tunesmith

America's Most Wanted (Fox)

Andre Codrescu

Arturo O'Farrill

Babatunde Olatunji

Barry Cuda

BBC

Ben Harrison

Bo Diddley

Captain Tony Terracino

Carl Hiaasen

Cedar Walton

Chuck Cannon

Cleo Laine and John Dankworth

Commercial VO: Ford, Brillo, TV Guide, Lifetime Channel, lily pharmacuetical, more...

Chris Clifton

Dan Mobley

Dance Companies (pretty much any that tour the Southeast)

Danzon By Six

Dave Brubeck

Douglas Spotted Eagle

Egidio Balzola and Oriente

Ensemble Galieli

Faust and Lewis

Federico Britos

Gary “Radar” Burghoff

George Plimpton

Gove Scrivenor

Herbie Mann

Hillary Clinton

Hugo Duarte

Island Opera

Jane Olivor

Jared Hobgood

Jean Carper

Jerry Jeff Walker

Jim Bailey

Jim Walker and Free Flight

Jimmy Buffett

Jimmy Cliff

Judy Blume

Kelly McGillis

Ken Fradley

Kenny Drew Jr.

Key West Literary Seminar (this includes far more top authors than we can list here, or even remember!)

Key West Pops

Key West Symphony Orchestra

Kingston Trio

Lari White

Larry Baeder

Leon Redbone

Lionel Hampton

Lou Diamond Phillips

Mac Rebennack

Manny Oquendo

Marga Gomez

Maria Muldaur 

Matt “Guitar” Murphy

Michael McCloud

NPR

Othello

Pat and Deb

Pete and Wayne

Peter Mayer

Philip Burton

Ramsey Lewis

Randy Roberts

Richard Crook

Richard Wilbur

Richie Havens

River North Dance Company

Scott Kirby

Shel Silverstein

Shimpei Inoue

Shirley Horn

Stephen Stills

Steve Goodman 

SUKAY

Suzanne Westenhoefer

Taj Mahal

Terrance Simien

The Learning Channel

The Kinsey Sicks

Terry Cassidy

Tom Chapin

Tom Rush

Tuck and Patti


Private Ear is owned and operated by Dan Simpson and Melody Cooper


Please contact us at:

3119 Riviera Drive
Key West, Fl. 33040
305-296-4288

email: dan@tropicalwave.com