studioexpresso & Trans Audio Group Present
Tap Into Your SPINAL TAP MOMENT! 

Turning Production Setbacks
Into Success & Smiles 
  feat Award-winning Producer and Engineers   

(speakers subject to change)

       
CJ Vanston (Spinal Tap, Tina Turner, Steve Lukather)

CJ Vanston  profile @ studioexpresso 

 Steve Genewick (Spinal Tap, Martina McBride, Michael Bublé)
 Steve Genewick profile @ studioexpresso 

 Matt Brownlie (LL Cool J, Kesha, Brent Fischer Orchestra)    

 Matt Brownlie Profile @ studioexpresso

Brent Fischer (Michael Jackson, Symphonic Prince, D'Angelo, Usher)  

Brent Fischer Profile @ studioexpreso

Thursday January 22, 1 - 1:50 pm 2026  (before TEC AWARDS)*   
register here (NAMM Link)

NAMM attendees click this link to register for our session atTECTracks - CU there! 
The Hilton, next to the Anaheim Convention Center   

2nd Floor, California Balroom A

  Most every band has experienced a Spinal Tap Moment, where they must overcome the disastrous and the absurd and deliver quality work that spells FUN and produces record sales. In this session we’ll discuss how to employ the fun factor to overcome difficult circumstances with your band member, engineer or producer in the studio, or music director on stage. Hear tips from Spinal Tap producer and keybordist CJ *Vanston (Steve Lukather, Prince, Barbara Streisand), and bassist and producer Brent Fischer (The Roots, Prince, Michael Jackson, Usher) along with their award-winning engineers Steve Genewick (Martina McBride, Michael Bublé, Paul McCartney) and Matt Brownlie (LL Cool J, Destiny’s Child, The Brent Fischer Orchestra). Their discussion will reveal how to resolve conflicts, work around technical challenges, share fun-inspired production secrets, and demonstrate ways to create a unique sound that leaves audiences smiling.
Moderated by Claris Sayadian-Dodge, of studioexpresso.com. 

*Vanston also goes on stage with Spinal Tap as their keyboard player and music director when they perform shows at Carnegie Hall, The Sydney opera House, or at the Wembley Stadium or on the Tonight Show. He served as a writing/production partner for Steve Lukather; scored most of Christopher Guest’s movies to include Mighty Wind, and Best In Show.  In September of 2025  Vanston joined the legendary Elton John on the Spinal Tap song, Stoneheng   music video (below).  The accompanying new Mockumentary Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (tailer below), directed by Rob Reiner is in theaters now! 

We will leave  time for your questions.

Join us for an inspiring afternoon at NAMM and recharge for 2026!

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Spinal Tap - Stonehenge ft. Elton John (Official Video) and music producer CJ Vanston, Piano  

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues - Official Trailer - Only In Cinemas Now 

Presenters & Moderator  

Brad Lunde founder and president of TransAudio Group, the premier distributor of high-end recording gear to the US and Worldwide. TransAudio helps the industry’s inventors build a business through product development working with top level end users and selling to the trade. TransAudio product lines include the best of the best: A-Designs (USA),  ATC Loudspeakers (UK), Auratone, Bettermaker , Geoffrey Daking & Co (USA) Drawmer (UK), Hakan, Latch Lake,  Mutec, Pete's Place Audio, Sabra-Som, Sound Anchors (UK) Subwoofer Pros and Tube-Tech (Denmark), to name a few

Claris Sayadian-Dodge founded studioexpresso.com in 2000, a production resource for developing artists. Dodge is the publisher and chief editor of studioexpresso's monthly eZine for the recording industry and looks after an Award-winning roster of producers with the affiliated C Artist Management. Past positions include: Management III, PMK, Rogers & Cowan Public Relations, Ocean Way studios, Prairie Sun Recording and studio bau:ton. Claris supports Grammy's MusiCare and sits on the board of a Film Foundation dedicated to documentaries on human rights. She has a BA degree in business and continues to create professional networking events to raise awareness and funds for art and music education programs and worthy causes.

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Read Matt Forger Review Of 2013 Sessions at HotZone

Past Events

studioexpresso @ TEC Tracks 2026

Tap Into Your Spinal Tap Moment with studioexpresso Producers CJ Vanston, Steve Genewick...

Atmosize Your Music Like Tom Petty...

Amp Up Your Music 

 studioexpresso at TEC Tracks 2023
Modern Composition Tips

studioexpresso at TEC Tracks 2022
Production Pearls & Atmos Dreams

studioexpresso at TEC Tracks 2020
Producing The West Coast Jazz feat

studioexpresso at TEC Tracks 2019
DNA of The Legend: PRINCE

studioexpresso at TEC Tracks 2018
All Aoubt That Bass

studioexpresso at TEC Tracks 2017
Producing for World Audiences & Cross Over Artists
Mixers On Immersive Environments

studioexpresso at TEC Tracks 2016
Orchestrating A Jazz Session: Releases With Big Buzz

studioexpresso HotZone at NAMM 2015
Production - Studio and Stage, to TV and Film: That Killer Drum Sound

studioexpresso HotZone at NAMM 2014
Studio 2 Stage: Tips from The Top: Music for TV and Film - MD's In The House!

studioexpresso Hot Zone at NAMM 2013
Session Management: Editing and Mixing Secrets

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