Studio session
Book time in a professional studio, set up for audio or video, with an engineer running the session. Studio 1801 is home base — with a network of rooms behind it, so scheduling never blocks a recording.
You bring the conversation; the room, the gear, and the engineer are handled. Good for a single episode, a pilot, or testing whether a show is for you before you commit to more.
Who's in the room
I’m John. I’ve been around sound my whole life — a musician first, then a DJ from 1999 (the kind who cued records up by hand, which is where “Q’d Up” comes from), playing everything from clubs to concert halls, and a live sound engineer running broadcasts at WHP and WITF. I started Q’d Up in 2006 and took it full-time producing podcasts and video.
Video came the same way sound did — a little from the broadcast years, a little from the work itself, learned by doing it on real shoots. Over time Q’d Up grew from a recording studio into documentary and multi-camera production: lighting a set instead of a room, cutting a story to a music bed, following a four-year series through a children’s hospital. Audio was the start. Video is where it grew.
When you book a session, I’m the one in the room — setting the levels, running the board or the cameras, and making sure you walk out with something worth editing. Twenty years of handing people a microphone, and a lot of years behind a camera since, means I know how to make anyone sound — and look — like they belong there.