Management:

Dave Ostrov - Owner

Dave has been around the music scene for most of his adult life. He has been a vocalist/performer, mostly involved with rap, hip hop and beatbox styles. His vision of starting his own recording facility started with the desire to create a space for himself and his performer friends to have a real place to record without the technical shortcomings of private and personal studios. His dissatisfaction with his experiences in commercial studios he visited and recorded in throughout New Jersey fueled his desire to get his own personal and proper space.

With the generous help of his entire family the location was found, the money invested and the professionals brought in needed to create a world class recording space that could both accommodate his needs and provide professional services to the greater New Jersey/New York/Philadelphia area music community. IGM Recording Studio represents the fruition of the dreams of Dave Ostrov fueled by the determination and desire of the Ostrov Family.

Jim Mullen - Operations Manager

Jim "JJ" Mullen has been in the music business for over thirty years. Starting as a musician, co-founder of the Panzees, performing and recording on the local and regional scene, he later worked as a recording studio session musician. In 1982 he worked for Dynacoustics, a professional audio product manufacturing and production company and in 1984 left to form his own pro audio company Colormix Systems to provide sound reinforcement and stage lighting services for musicians and performing venues. In 1995 he founded digitrack, who's purpose was to provide a variety of musical support services under one roof. digitrack launched both a series of recording studios and retail music services. Later, he founded subsidiaries MulltiMedia Design Group to design/build recording studios, rehearsal centers and sound stages for performance and broadcast and Kensington Audio which operated recording studios in Old Bridge, New Jersey and Foothill Ranch, California, primarily servicing the needs of the television and motion picture industry. Further expanding to offer pro audio rental services as Kensington Audio Concert Productions and retail musical equipment sales as Vintage Guitar Sales and Vintage Gear Sales, Jim continued to expand his reach in the music services industry. In May of 2007 Jim purchased the company that started him in the pro audio business Dynacoustics and today serves as President and CEO of the corporation guiding the pro audio sales and installation teams and manufacturing business. Dynacoustics was retained to initially consult on the build of IGM Studios and then was retained as a cooperative partner to manage all daily operations of IGM Recording Studio by the Ostrov Family.

Staff:

Rob Vicari - Lead Engineer

Rob is a performing and recording musician who plays a variety of instruments including guitar, saxophone, piano and drums and has been involved with the heavy metal/hard rock scene for the last 18 years, opening for many national acts. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Audio Recording from Five Towns College, New York and has had many years of experience in recording studios in both New York and New Jersey before moving to his new home at IGM. Rob has experience with every type of music including Rock, Heavy Metal, Hip-Hop, Blues, and Jazz. Working closely with Dirty White Productions, he helps produce some of the local, talented hip-hop clients as well as working with local bands.

Andy Sonatore - Staff Engineer, Producer

As a working musician and experienced engineer Andy is co-founder of "The Swoop", providing guitar and vocals performing with the band in area clubs in New Jersey for many years. Andy came on board at IGM from the first day providing an experienced set of ears and a deep understanding of DAW based recording techniques and has been an invaluable asset lending his skills to a variety of artists looking for an engineer with a deep understanding of rock, hip hop, R & B and jazz styles. His knowledge of recording techniques of classic rock records lends him to excel with those clients going for that old school sound of vinyl records we grew up on. He has also become our "go to" engineer for voice over talent for commercial and corporate clients.

John Pizzimenti - Engineer, Producer

As a co-founder of Off Axis Recording in Keyport, New Jersey, John comes to us with a wealth of knowledge with a technical degree from the Institute of Audio Research for music production, his experience gleamed from many years in the recording industry running a commercial recording studio of his own. As a musician himself (a prerequisite for employment at IGM), John has a deep understanding of musicians needs and what it takes to bring a project to fruition quickly with outstanding results. He is our doctor of the hard drive having unequalled skills in the scary world of computer technology and quickly became our Mr. fix it to keep IGM running smoothly. His engineering and production talents are deep and diverse and he is capable of capturing passionate musical performance regardless of the style or gender of the material presented to him. There is nothing thrown at "Staten Island Johnny" that he cannot handle, and our clientele have given him rave reviews and keep coming back for more hours with him in the chair.

DIRTY WHITE PRODUCTIONS - Producers

Dynacoustics LLC and IGM Recording Studio are proud to have teamed up with the creative team of KnoWOne and Bill E. Jak, known professionally as Dirty White Productions, to service the needs of our rap and hip hop clientele. Their services are now offered exclusively here through IGM Recording Studios.

For the past 13 years KnoWOne and Bill E. Jak have worked as a creative duo in the music business with rap and hip hop musical style artists. They have worked with countless New Jersey and New York area rap artists as music producers and arrangers in the recording studio helping the artist reach their creative vision, as beat producers composing backing tracks for these artist and as engineers working the technical side of the studio glass.

Their backing track compositions are not cookie cutter, sample and slice Reason products or Propellerhead out of the box beats, but are all original compositions, sample free, and many of the tracks are performed live by professional studio musicians working here at IGM Recording Studios. We hold their work product out to comparison by anyone, which is why many of their compositions have been used by up and coming rap artists in New Jersey and New York. A look at our past client list is a small indication of the variety of artists that Dirty White Productions have helped achieve their goals beyond their expectations.

Answering the needs of clients from a simple backing track to work over to full fledged record production from start to finish, Dirty White Productions are here to answer the call when you can’t afford to sound like everyone else.