About
Corey Folta
Record Engineer
and Producer
Audio Post Engineer
Tracking
Mixing
5.1 Mixing
Mastering

Sound Mixing
Sound Editing
Music Editing
Sound Design
Foley
ADR
 
  Around 1991, I found my way to Quad Studios in NYC. A friend of a band I was playing in had just begun
engineering there and invited us to record a demo with him. I instantly fell in love with the art, math, science
and magic of recording and mixing audio.

After a short year living in Athens, GA - playing drums locally and doing short tours to Statesboro and
Savannah - I returned to NYC with the intent of wedging my foot into the door of the film and music industry,
eventually landing a position at DuArt film labs. After two years of working the midnight shift on films like Fargo
and Ace Ventura, I decided I needed to join the land of the living, so I hit the streets in pursuit of a daytime
position. I went down my list in alphabetical order. My first call was to a jingle studio, 39th Street Music. I was
instantly seduced by their SSL desk. Owner and jingle writer, Michael Karp - composer for Dateline NBC,
Presidential Inaugurations and State of the Union Addresses - offered me an internship. I accepted and
began the very next day.

After only two weeks, they decided to throw me to the wolves - I was scheduled to assist my first session with
Sean Penn for his film The Crossing Guard. So with very little comprehension of the SSL, or of really any of the
gear in the room for that matter, I was off and running - trial by fire. I headed into the session, literally a walking
zombie - still working through the night at DuArt, rushing off to the internship in the am, and then heading directly
into the Crossing Guard session with no sleep. Somehow - though to this day, I still can't get the math to add up -
I managed through Penn's music supervisor on that session, to get offered a full time position at another jingle
house, Michael Levine Music (MLM).

MLM was the perfect training ground, a busy jingle studio creating ad campaigns for Kit Kat, Kodak, Reebok
and more. I was about as green as they come, but I was back to being exposed to daylight and ready to learn.
After spending some time at MLM, and subsequently working for and learning from some of the premiere talents
in the industry at studios like Big House, Manhattan Center and City Sound, I eventually moved into the word of
freelancing.

Over the course of my 17-year career, I've worked with all aspects of audio: sound mixing, sound design/foley
work, ADR recording and editing, composing, tracking, mixing and producing bands. I’ve worked on countless
films and TV shows, documentaries, industrials, commercials/promos, records, plus works for radio and
theatrical productions. My past projects have shown at Sundance, Slamdance and Tribeca film festivals, as
well as appeared on MTV, ESPN, PBS, CNN and Discovery.

A few quick highlights: working with Will Calhoun and Doug Wimbish from Living Colour along with Bernie
Worrell from P Funk, tracking and mixing Angie Stone for the Eric Sermon produced track, "No More Rain",
tracking and mixing Richie Havens, mixing Beenie Man's live concert for a 5.1 DVD release, recording, mixing
and co-producing two seasons of music cues for Spin City, recording Kevin Klein's vocals for The Hunchback
of Notre Dame
, working with director Noah Baumbach for his DVD release of The Squid and the Whale, mixing
the Ben Harper documentary, Pleasure and Pain, and of course, many, many more.

Of course somewhere in there, I still find time for my original love, continuing to front my own band, singing
and playing drums. One day I'll rest, though probably not anytime soon.