The Studio Team

Chris Gilroy is a Grammy, Latin Grammy, and Wavy Award nominee with 15+ years experience in NYC. He has worked on staff at Avatar Studios (Power Station at Berklee), and has run sessions in studios across the east coast. Chris has worked with a diverse range of artists including Ron Carter, Lauren Jauregui, Foreigner, Lawrence, Imani Winds, Juice WRLD, The Harlem Gospel Choir, Christian McBride, GRiZ, Norah Jones, Antibalas & rock bands across NYC. He loves tubes and tape.

Myles Rodenhouse is a producer, recording engineer, composer, and founder of Douglass Recording. He has worked with artists including Norah Jones, Cage the Elephant, Vanessa Carlton, Arturo O’Farrill, Matt Corby, and Bombay Bicycle Club, as well as clients including The New York Times, Fox, Universal Music Group, and Penguin Random House.

Myles began his engineering career at Perfect Sound Studios, working alongside his brother, studio owner Jake Rodenhouse, and two-time Grammy-nominated engineer Jason Donaghy. Outside of his work at Douglass Recording, he writes, records, and produces music with Earthquake Lights.

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With over a decade of experience working in NYC’s recording industry, Irving is a freelance engineer who has earned credits working with Megan Thee Stallion, Vampire Weekend, Jon Batiste, Emily King, Cage the Elephant, Norah Jones and Idina Menzel. He’s engineered two RIAA certified double-platinum records (Megan Thee Stallion’s Hot Girl Summer and Captain Hook), one gold record (Calboy’s Wildboy), and a Grammy nominated audiobook (Beastie Boys Book). When not in the studio, Irving engineers live multi-track recordings at venues across the country, designs and builds pro-audio equipment, and bakes a mean batch of cookies. Visit Irving’s website.

Matthew earned his degree in Sound Recording Technology at UMass Lowell and got his start in NYC at MSR Studios in 2014. After MSR closed, he found himself in a myriad of audio positions including FOH engineer at Gramercy Theater and Sound Designer for various Productions. He’s now landed most of his time at Power Station at BerkleeNYC and freelances as much as possible as an engineer, producer, or percussionist.

Originally from Montana, Caleb is a musician and engineer who was raised around audio. From an early age, he’d be in studios where his mother was a morning DJ and producer on local radio and TV stations. His interest in music led him to joining bands and would be tasked with recording their demos. Since moving to NYC he’s worked with artists and entities of all ilk including Q Lazzarus, Panopticon Films, DailyBurn365, Pure Dynamite, Janie Cooke and many others. He works at Douglass Recording and Dubway Studios. When not in studio, he can be found gigging around the city with bands Idaho Green and Fleshlight Suicide.

Nicole Harwayne is a recording engineer and multi-instrumentalist living and working in New York City. She is a fixture of Brooklyn’s queer DIY scene and is passionate about providing studio time and affordable mix/mastering services to those in her community. She is a part of the team that curates and produces the T4Tapes compilation series which showcases up and coming trans artists. She has also toured extensively with her own groups ok, cuddle, Pop Music Fever Dream, and Survey Monkey.

Mohan has been in love with music for as long as he can remember. He took music lessons from age 8 through high school, and continued his education at the University of Michigan, where he got a BFA in Jazz Studies. During his time at Michigan and shortly after, he found a new love; producing and audio engineering. Since moving to New York in 2023, he started working at Douglass Recording Studio, first as an intern and now as an assistant engineer. When he’s not at Douglass, you can find him playing bass at venues around New York, on Broadway, and all over the country, or making music in his bedroom.

Wendy Kya is a recording engineer, producer, and musician. Classically trained, she studied music composition and production at Purchase Conservatory of Music. She cut her teeth in the diy punk and indie scenes recording and live engineering. So far professionally she has worked on several alternative/punk/emo/folk EPs and albums, sound design for short films and plays, as well as the mastering engineer for live recordings of chamber music concerts, and many scrappy home recordings. In the studio she focuses on bringing the energy and creativity from the diy underground world and blending it with the attention to detail you get from years of classical training.

Peter Karl has been recording music since the age of 10 when he was given a cassette recorder by his parents. After working in the sound department at Channel 13 in New York City for nine years, he opened his own recording studio in Gowanus, right down the street from Douglass Recording (on the very same block.) It was highly regarded for more than 2 decades, where Peter recorded greats including Norah Jones, Reggie Workman and Arturo O’Farrill. He’s now made Douglass Recording his home, and we couldn’t be happier to have his extensive knowledge, skill, and awful/awesome dad jokes.