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WELCOME TO THUNDER & LIGHTING CONCERT PRODUCTIONS If this is your first visit to our website, we would like to welcome you and introduce ourselves. Thunder and Lighting Concert Productions is a professional concert production company that was started in 1995 by Don Christopher Kassay to provide promotors of professional concerts reliable sound reinforcement and lighting equipment to assist them in putting on their shows. We also provide all the engineers and technical staff required to work the shows, i.e. out-front sound engineers and technicians, on-stage monitor engineers and technicians, lighting designers and engineers and riggers. Today, Thunder & Lighting Concert Productions is made up of several companies. We have a state-of-the art Mastering Studio located right outside Raleih, NC, our own recording label and our own music publishing company. Thunder Mastering Studio handles the CD Mastering for some of the top musicians in the business today, not to mention major record labels. (Click on Clients) We started our own publshing company and record label in June 2008. At the same time, we opened up our Mastering Studios to local and regional artist. To read more about our Mastering Studios CLICK HERE. REMOTE RECORDINGS: We also specialize in live remote recordings (live concerts) and our remote studio does accept bookings throughout the year. To book an in-house or remote recording sessoin, Contact Us. We invite you to browse around and get familiar with our website, especially if you are a musician. We do support our local and regional musicians through out the US by offering them a MUSIC FORUM to place their CDs for promotional purposes. Hopefully, you will be interested in adding your CD to our music forum and your name to our Artists Category. For more information, click on Contact Us. TRACK RECORDINGS: At Thunder Studios, we have a state-of-the-art track (Karaoke) recording studio that is highly rated throughtout the country as being the #1 choice for artist who prefer to record with MusicTracks instead of using a live band. We have a database that contains 1000s of music tracks (Karaoke) for musicians who record professionally with tracks or sing just for fun using music tracks. We have professional artists fly out here from all over the country to record in our studio. So the next time you decide to record a CD using music tracks, Contact Us or If you need a to purchase a music track, Contact Us. Our music tracks are only $1.50 each; each track is Digitally Mastered and you can download them directly from our music database. MUSIC TRACKS:
If you or your group perform live professionally or just for fun using Karaoke Tracks, which we prefer to call Music Tracks, we have a music databse that contains over 420,000 songs which is about 19 million CDs and this includes 1000s of Music Tracks. The dfference in our music tracks and other providers of music tracks is, we will sell each track as a single meaning you do not have to spend $25 - $30 for a CDG to get one song. We will sell you only the music track(s) you need at $1.50 per track, and If you can find it anywhere else for less, we will sell it to you at their cost. Also, all of our Music Tracks are digitally mastered. So the next time you are looking for a music track, or if you need to replace a few of your music tracks, Contack Us. NOTE: Although our music database consist of millions of songs and tracks, we mayl not always have the song you are looking and neither will any one else, but we will have 99% of them. Our music database consists of every genre out at this time from Classic Rock, Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Classic Country, Country, Jazz, RAP, Hip Hop and the lists goes on and on. CUSTOM MUSIC TRACKS: If we do not have the music track you are looking for and you cannot find it anywhere else and it is a must that you have this particular track for a special occassion, we can make the custom track for you in our studio and it will sound as good or better as the original. We do custom music tracks that sound great. We can do all the different genres including symphony orchastra sound tracks. To listen to a variety of sample custom sound tracks Click Here. click on MUSIC on the main menu and then click on Custom Sound Tracks. It does not matter what type of music track you require, we can make it for you. REMOTE RECORDING EQUIPMENT: Our remote recording equipment consist of either 24, 48, or 96 channel Alesis HD24 recorder(s) that can be setup for either analog or digital format. Our setup time is usually about an hour maximum and the recording does not affect the performance of the show because our console and other equipment is completely separate from the house console. After the recording session, we bring the recorded audio media back to our Studio and do a complete mix-down and then it is Mastered in our Mastering Studio. ARTISTS PROFILES: We have recently started adding pictures and biographies of local and regional artists we are working with at this time to our Website. To see the artists we are currently working with and read their biography, Click on ARTISTS on the Main Menu tab. BOOKINGS: We have been so busy for the past year Mastering music media in our Mastering Studio, we have not had time to do any music productions. The last production that we did was "Diane Bailey's Live Christmas Show" that she performed at the Garner Historic Auditorium back on December 15. 2008, which was a "sell out". So you see, we have been very busy in our studios, but we are beginning to add new staff members so this is going to change in the near future. YOUR SHOW or EVENT: Even if we are not involved in putting on your concert, show or event, we will still post it on our website for a maximum of thirty (30) days for a small fee.. This would be great advertising for your event because 1000s of people visit our website weekly. TICKETS: Our Ticket office is open 24/7 when there is a concert or an event going on that we are either promoting or responsible for selling the tickets. It can be a concert, soccer game, or any event where tickets are sold for admission. If you have an event coming up in the near future and you need tickets printed up e-mail us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Our Tickert Office can print-out as many tickets that you require and send them to you via USPS, UPS or FEDex. We have a large variety of tickets for any occasion and they are the least expensive tickets you can have printed anywhere. Our Ticket Office will print all your tickets and for a small fee, we will also sell your tickets for you online. Your customers can purchase tickets to your event directly through us via credit card. It is a proven fact, that more tickets are sold online via credit card than any other way. When we put on a concert, 90% of our ticket sales are purchased from us online via credit card and 10% are purchased at the door. CONVERT VINYL & CASSETTE TO DIGITAL: We can take your old vinyl albums and cassettes you purchased years ago before CDs were ever thought of and convert them to digitally mastered CDs. We also make custom CDs so you can have your favorite songs by a particular artist on one (1) CD or songs from a variety of artists on one (1) CD. Depending on the legnth of the songs, 25 songs are usually the limit on a standard CD. If your CD player plays MP3 files, the maximum number of songs is usually around a 100 songs per CD. All we need is for you to send us yoiur Album(s) or Cassettes; we will convert them and then send them back to you along with your new CD(s). For more information email us at: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it SCRATCHED ALBUMS: If you have a favorite album that you really like and it is scratched and you cannot find it anywhere on CD, give us a call on our toll free number 888-535-3261 and we will probably have it in our music database or, mail us the album(s) and for a small fee, we will make you a digitally mastered copy of the album on CD and remove 98% of the noise made by scratches. After the job is completed, we will mail back your CD(s) and/or album. SALE YOUR CD ONLINE: If you are in a band or a solo artist and you have a CD for sell, send us a copy and we will place 1-minute sample tracks on our website. We only charge a small fee for selling your CD online, so when you send us your CD, please make sure you let us know the cost of the CD. For more information, please us at: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it DVDs: Click on the MOVIES tab to view top movies on DVD and VHS that can be purchased via credit card at a cost less than you can purchase them anywhere else online or at any store that sells movies. We can also take your movies on VHS and convert them digitally to DVD. CLIENTS: What I am probably the proudest of is the musicians I have worked with over the past 38 years. I was a professional drummer from 1972 until 1995, at which time I semi-retired and built my own recording studios and I have never been busier or having so much fun in my life. I still work with most of the top musicians in the music business today; the majority of them are the most famous musician who ever performed on-stage and I am proud to have been a part that era and I continue to work and talk with them and we are all still good friends. To see a list of the musicians I have worked with, click on CLIENTS on the Main Menu tab.
I have had hundreds of young drummers e-mail and ask me to post a picture of my drum-kit on the website. I apologize for it not being a very clear picture, but Susan and I looked for hours through my pictures and could not find anything that showed the drum kit any better. I have been playing this drum kit since 1971. The lights that you see around the drum cage are actually attached to the drum cage ( a lot of lights) but there were a ton of staging lights for the band also. And speaking of drum cage, I have been told this was the first drum kit to be setup in a cage, so a first. The drum kit consists of a snare, hi-hat, 8 Roto Toms, 8 Mounted Toms, 2 Floor Toms, Two Kick Drums and 12 Cymbals and I play left-handed. The unique thing about this drum kit is back in the early 1970's, all my drums had mics permanently mounted and installed in them. This was given to me by Shure. I never really thought a lot about this until one day a month or so after they were installed, someone asked me where I got all those tiny mics attached to my drums. Then I said it was an experimental project I was working on with Shure, another first. Also another thing I did back in the early 1970s that was not heard of at that time was, I used a drum monitor system. It was very large and consisted of one 18" bottom, one 12'' Low-Mid and a 10' high-mid with a 2" horn. Although I know the system was driven by two (2) amplifiers, I cannot remember the brand name, but I do remember the system was loud even though I really did not hear the drums that well because I wore ear protectors, but I could feel the drums and that was all I needed and wanted. It was great and after that all drummers had to have their own monitor system, another first. If you look at the top of the cage closely and follow the top bar, you can see how large the drum kit was. As you can see it was a very large drum kit and took up a lot of room. Including the cage, I think it was 20' X 25'. I had two very good friends who toured with me as my drum techs, Mark and David. They setup and broke down the drum kit, kept the drums perfectly tuned, replaced the drum heads every couple of days, polished the cymbals before packing the kit up for the night and much more. I would like to say to Mark and David, as I have said to them many times over the years, THANK YOU!
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