Established in 1978, Granite Records is currently located in Delray Beach, Florida, having relocated from Merrimack, New Hampshire. We have two divisions: Granite Recording Studio and ESP Music Video Productions.

We have worked with various companies such as; Digital Equipment Corp., Siemens, Nokia, " Ripleys Believe It or Not ", Discovery Channels " Megscience " theme song and others.

Our challenge is to present quality music to the consumer, while allowing artistic freedom. Future involvement in animation, DVD productions and other soundtracking projects are planned.

Dave Thomas is our Executive Producer and the Founder of Granite Records. He is a professional musician with over 35 years of music industry experience including; production, engineering, midi-programming and professional performance, Dave is also a songwriter with over 350 pieces of copyrighten music.

His training includes classical Pipe Organ with Hector Spec, Choir/Organ Master at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. JAZZ Fusion with Frank Cannario ( The Silver Trumpet ) and Vince Carmen Jazz organist ( played with two hands and feet ).

Dave performed classical and original pieces of music at concerts sponsored by the Rhode Island Theater Organ Society. He performed at Barrington College, Providence and Cranston Cathedrals.

At the age of 15 Dave performed on the Gulbransen Electronic Theater Organ in 8 Television commercials for "Keyboard 88" music stores of Rhode Island. He also performed at many of the electronic musical instrument trade show events as a representative of the store chain.

Performed with : Code-5, Jade, Vision, Rasberries, Army as Keyboardist / Songwriter.

Solo performances of "The Emerson Steinway Project " toured New England and New York . Electronic Rock was performed using 7 Synths, Hammond B-3, 95 Lights. Smoke Machines, Flash bombs and as much as 7500 watts of 5-way sound greatly enjoyed by crowds estimated in excess of 8,500 people.

We are a full Digital / Analog recording studio. We use Digidesign Pro-Tools and Master List CD on a Mac G-4 and G-5 for all Midi and Master Recordings. Our recordings are Red Book with " Sound Designer 2 " file format, not MP3. This allows for complete compatibly and the finest sound quality available. Other file formats available upon request, please E-Mail us with your needs.

Granite Recording Studio has staff Song writers and Composers, that can produce original music

for your soundtracking needs ; Corporate Videos, Movie soundtracking ( See ESP Productions below ), Wedding Videos, Music Compilations. E-Mail us with your needs.

We also do Analog to Digital conversion. Our engineers can produce a high quality CD master from your Tape Masters ; Tascam 8 Track Reel to Reel ( 1 inch wide tape ), Tascam 4 Track cassette w / DBX Noise reduction, Akai 4000 DS 2 Track Reel to Reel ( 1/4 inch wide tape ), Fisher Studio standard high speed cassette tape duplication deck, Fisher Studio Pro 8 Track Cartridge with Dolby Noise Reduction.

All our equipment is state-of- the-art. The classic and ancient stuff is professionally maintained and calibrated by factory trained techs.

All CD-R's are High Quality Maxell or Pioneer Pro Disc with Standard Jewel Case, unless otherwise specified. We print directly on to the CD-R. No PAPER LABELS to jam your player. For large quantity orders we use our affiliates " OASIS CD Manufacturing ".

Cassette tapes ( Maxell ) available upon request. Please Email us for your special needs.

All Q.A. is performed in house. We use four different speaker testing systems ; Acoustic Research AR-9's and AR-610's, Yamaha MS-50 standard studio monitors, Altec Lansing AC 45 monitors

Roland Synths : S-50 Sampler, JX-8P Synth, A-90 Piano / Midi-Controller, Sh-101Synth,

Software Synths : Groove Master, Sample Tank, Storm, Vibra-1000 Synth, Koblo Synth

We do everything else at Granite Records. Our future goals are to produce 24 bit DVD complete music videos with Dolby Quality sound for our artists music. Video CD's are currently in production and will be on sale soon.