Various Genres Music Production

Musical-"What I did for love" from A Chorus Line. Performed live by West Valley Light Orchestra in March 2017.  Solo by Kriselle Kelsey. Music Direction by Ron Bowman.  Music production includes recording, audio editing, and mixing.

Jazz & Hip Hop-​written and performed by Andrew Megantz.  "Richard Ash is a great producer/recording engineer.  I usually have a very specific idea in mind for how I want my compositions to sound and Richard was always adept at realizing my vision. No matter what that problem was—micing an accordion, getting a digital bass to gel with acoustic drums, or blending freshly-recorded drums into an old, heavily tape-processed instrumental—Richard took care of it. As a musician himself, he respects the compositional process. I never felt like he tried to “impose his will” on my tracks; rather, his advice on mixing, arranging and other recording tactics was always helpful and non-intrusive. As a result, we created some tracks that I’m really happy with and that I feel are an accurate representation of what previously was only a jumble of notes in my head, which I think is the greatest compliment a musician can give to his or her engineer."
-A. Megantz, Musician & Composer

Dance- Written and recorded by Richard Ash for Amazon (Lab 126 campus in Silicon Valley).  Music Production includes drum programming, guitar recording, synthesis, composition, mixing, and mastering. 

​Acappella-"Ingrid's meadow theme" ​written by Andrew Seely. Performed by Business Casual.  Co-recorded by Brett Landry.  Mastered by Robert Rich. Music Production includes ​vocal recording, vocal editing, and mixing.

Neo Soul-"Work" ​a soulful rework of the A$AP Ferg song.  "I'm very pleased with the mixing job Richard did for the track "Work". The song began as an instrumental remix I produced of the song "Work" by the artist A$AP Ferg. Featured on vocals is San Francisco based Katya Bitar. All the recorded vocals were improvised. Kyle O'brien is featured on Mandolin, and all of his recordings were improvised as well. After recording various takes of vocals and mandolin, I sent the session files to Richard, and he edited and mixed the song to completion. Considering the less-than-ideal recording environment that was available, the vocals ended up sounding really nice! Overall I'm very happy with how the track ended up sounding."
-Charlie Cluff, Music Producer

Folk Dance- "Slovakia" produced by R. Ash for Chef Koochooloo, the iPad application.  Music Production  includes instrument programming, claps & foot stomping performance and recording, editing, and mixing.  Mastered by Robert Rich.

Singer Songwriter- "Ebb and Flow"​ written, performed, and recorded by Hyland Carlisle.  Music Production includes string programming, audio editing, mixing, and mastering.

​Metal- "Counter Dilemma" ​written and performed by Tamerlane.  Recorded by Troy Sinclair.  Mastered by Robert Rich.  Music Production includes: synthesis, audio editing, and mixing.

​Afrobeat-​ "Uganda" produced by R. Ash and created for Chef Koochooloo. Music Production includes instrument programming, electric & bass guitar recording and performance, audio editing, and mixing.  Mastered by Robert Rich.

Rap- "Electro" produced by R. Ash. Music Production includes synthesis, audio editing, music composition, arrangement, mixing, vocal performance, and vocal recording.  Additional synthesis by Julius Dobos.  ​Mastered by Robert Rich.

Pop-"Forever and a day'" ​written and vocal performance by Sanj Nalwa.  Vocals recorded by Arianna Quijano. Music Production includes original music, guitar recording & performance, arrangement, instrument programming, drum sampling, audio editing, mixing, and mastering.