Vatican City Sound

Vatican City Sound This is a page to update the public on the happenings and recordings at Vatican City Sound, a recording studio by Mike Pope and Lydia Courtney Hi!

Welcome to Vatican City Sound's website! I built VCS to be a comfortable, intimate and effective place for recording lots of different kinds of music. I've paid a lot of attention to the acoustical treatments in the main room to maintain a controlled sound without being dead. I've put many hours into the design and manufacture of several custom diffuser panels and mixed them with absorption in the

room to soak up the bad reflections and spread out the good ones. I believe how you hear when recording is a priority, so I custom designed the headphone distribution to be quiet, powerful, and flexible. Great headphone mixes along with clear sightlines and analog closed circuit TV keep everyone comfortable and in touch, visually and aurally. I run ProTools on a really fast computer and and RME interface. I put VCS together from scratch to make great recordings for myself. Now I'm ready to do it for you. Let's get to work!
-Mike Pope

01/27/2023

This demo for Capitol Electric was shot and recorded at Vatican City Sound. For bookings of this group, contact lcvoicestudio or Lucyblackentertainment

01/21/2023

I wish you could all hear what I’m hearing right now, Mike Pope is mixing an album right now by Sergio DiMiguel. It’s just a really great jazz album heavily influenced by Flamenco with musical twists and turns, deeply rhythmic composition, and SUCH a musical sense for dynamics. Piano, flute, guitar-all of it just so beautifully layered. I can’t wait until the album comes out so I can share it with you.

Exciting times at chez Courtney-Pope and Vaticancitysound! New album will be coming out soon!!
10/08/2022

Exciting times at chez Courtney-Pope and Vaticancitysound! New album will be coming out soon!!

yea!
12/13/2019

yea!

Finished new album! Back on the road this Thursday to , Blue LLama Jazz Club w/ Geoffrey Keezer

Taught some workshops at AUCA in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan this week and on the last day spent time just talking basic sound p...
06/15/2019

Taught some workshops at AUCA in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan this week and on the last day spent time just talking basic sound principles of recording. I felt really good about that.. giving young international musicians information about good recordings to get their music heard!

The Berklee bass video is out! Check it out!
12/22/2018

The Berklee bass video is out! Check it out!

Steve Bailey, Victor Wooten, John Patitucci, Joe Dart, and many others spread the holiday cheer with this bass-tastic recording

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12/22/2018

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11/03/2018

Recorded some Fred Moss Vocals this week and made an excellent student college prescreen for Jack Merson. Finished up the week with a great session with Michel Nirenberg and a bit of mixing for the Simone Baron recording. This is a busy little studio, folks! Please check out the prescreen videos of Ellie Pope and Jack Merson which follow. These two are now applying for music scholarships if anyone wants to sponsor their continued musical development! 😇

11/03/2018

Sunday Nov. 4 An Die Musik, Baltimore

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New York, NY

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9am - 10pm

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(917) 691-2434

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