Ma-Me-O Music Ltd.

Professional Recording Studio in Central Alberta

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Professional Recording Studio
located on Pigeon Lake in Central Alberta, Canada

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Hello and thank you for visiting our recording studio website! We are located at Ma-Me-O Beach, Alberta, Canada, about halfway between Edmonton and Red Deer, due west of Wetaskiwin on the South East shore of Pigeon Lake. Please feel free to look around, and if there is anything I can help you with, in terms of planning, budgeting, arranging, recording, mixing, mastering and completing your project, drop me a note at miles@ma-me-o.com.

Please visit our "links page" for valuable information about copyright, music licensing, bookings, funding, various interesting connections...

Check out "MySpace" for some music samples.

or click below for some samples from my instrumental easy listening CD, "Moods of Ma-Me-O" on CDBaby.

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Our Background:

My name is Miles Jackson. I have been playing the piano since I was five years old, and it is still my main instrument. I also play some accordion, mandolin, flute and drums.... Of course, now I play with a lot more electric keyboards, midi, computers and software. I started recording music in the mid eighties, and have been both performing and recording since then.

My wife, Jocelyne and I moved to Ma-Me-O Beach from Calgary on April 1st, 1997. Before that, I operated a project studio in Calgary for 15 years, Milestone Productions, and have an extensive background in midi sequencing. 

Over the years, from about 1967 on, I played with many groups, including "Richter Ten", "Adanac Reply", "Barry Allen and the Cheyenne Winter", "Cannonball", "Redemption" from Edmonton, "Stratus Faction", "Backline Orchestra", the "Allen Sisters", "Black and White Affair", "Milestone Trio", the "Saturday Pro Big Band", "Band du Jour", "Tommy Hunter", "Neil Gow and the Five Knights", the "Carlene Friesen" band.... Where has all the time gone? :-)

Also, I toured with Frank Mills (Music Box Dancer) about three times a year as musical director up until he retired after Christmas of 2000, writing the arrangements, playing orchestral parts on the synthesizer and directing the choirs at Christmas time. 

At Stampede time in Calgary, I continue to work with the pit band (Rockin' Al and the Dream Crushers) at the Youth Talent contest at the Archie Boyce Theatre on the Stampede grounds, where we back up about 80 contestants each year! We have band leader Al Muirhead on trumpet and conducting, Steve Foster on drums, Kai Poscente playing bass, Bobby Cairns playing guitar, Eric Friedenberg on sax, flute, keys and clarinet, and yours truly, Miles Jackson on keyboards. Some of our past winners include Paul Brandt (My Heart Has a History), Gavin Hope (the Nylons), Bret Barrow, Billy Klippert (Canadian Idol), Maureen Murphy, last year's winner, Tara Tennant - this year's winner, and several others who have gone on to successful careers! This year has been year 27 for Al as bandleader, and 17 years for yours truly !

Over the past 10 years of operation, I have produced and arranged many CD's ranging from folk to speed rock, classical and jazz to alphorn music; country to marching bands, choirs, and big band to inspirational and gospel music, native powwow music to comedy. Did I mention blues and R & B? Plus some music that defies description, as we know it today!

I like nothing more than working with other singer/song writers on their projects, either for demo purposes, or for commercial CD release. Let's get together and make some great music!

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Tell us about your music!

Here is a short form/questionaire designed to help us get an idea of what your project is all about. If you care to fill it in, I will be happy to contact you with some ideas to help get your music out to your fans.

It seems to be grant application time again, and a lot of people have been asking me for help in preparing budgets and estimate sheets. I have uploaded a couple of helpful forms. One is an XL spreadsheet budget so you can "plug in your own" numbers, and the other is a pdf document the gives a good outline of the costs involved. Please feel free to download them and use them to put together a reasonable budget for your project! I hope they prove helpful! 
Here are links to the most common funding sites for Canadian musicians.

Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Canada Council Grants
Factor Grants

Services 

• We now offer basic video services. Click here to see some of our artist's videos on youtube!
• Producing and recording Singer/songwriter demos
• Help with writing and arranging your songs
• CD Recording Projects (Cubase 5 platform) complete with
• Digital mastering (Wavelab 6.0)
• Backing trax and minus mixes - karaoke sing along tracks! Original or otherwise.
• Jingles written and produced for radio and television
• Arranging, Orchestrations, Scoring, Lead sheets, Copying (Finale 2007)
• Audio Restoration (Cd's from old tapes, records etc.)
• Graphic design, digital photography, CD covers, labels and tray cards
• Small and large run CD and DVD duplication or replication
• Online CD sales for our artists

Our regular rate is $50 per hour for multi track recording and mixing. Block bookings (2 days or more) go for $350 per day, based on 8 hours studio time. For music preparation, such as arranging, sequencing, writing charts and copying parts, our rate is $40 per hour. 

Please feel free to call and discuss your project, and I can help you put together a budget based on your particular requirements! We accept personal checks, cash, Visa and Mastercard!

Miles Jackson
Ma-Me-O Music Ltd.
Box 7, 606 Beach Road
Ma-Me-O Beach, Alberta, Canada
T0C 1X0
Email inquiries to: miles@ma-me-o.com
Telephone: 1-780-586-2678

"Doin' it Right on the Beach!"