Santa Barbara, CA (May 1, 2023)―For the previous 17 years, non-profit group Notes for Notes (N4N), an advocate for music in public faculties, has constructed recording studios nationwide, all outfitted with KRK displays by the producer’s charitable arm, KRK Kares.
N4N’s most up-to-date studio is powered by Sony Music Group on the Boys & Girls Club of Metro LA’s Watts/Willowbrook and was stocked with KRK Classic 7, Rokit 10-3 G4, and Rokit 5 G4 studio displays, in addition to the model’s KNS 8402 headphones. With KRK Kares’ newest donations, each Notes for Notes studio is now outfitted with KRK at each degree, giving youth at 26 studios throughout 13 states the power to supply, document, and blend like the professionals whereas studying the ins and outs of music creation.
“Both KRK and Gibson and subsequently KRK Kares and Gibson Gives have been there for almost all of our progress, offering a number of the most essential gear for our studios,” shares Notes for Notes CEO and co-founder Philip Gilley. “KRK has offered tools for our services since studio quantity three. Monitors and headphones are core staples of any recording studio, and we wouldn’t have been capable of full these builds with out them. In reality, we all the time be sure that we’ve obtained these good huge, brilliant, yellow cones entrance and middle in any respect our mixing stations.”
The Watts/Willowbrook Clubhouse additionally options a number of Epiphone guitars and bass guitars, MESA/Boogie California Tweed amps, and a number of guitar pedals from Maestro Electronics.
Gilley provides that it’s not simply the recognizability that makes KRK merchandise a super match for N4N. “Obviously, there’s a top quality facet to contemplate when selecting KRKs, however there’s additionally one thing to be stated for the truth that this gear is attainable to younger individuals,” he explains. “The identical goes for different Gibson manufacturers, like Epiphone, Kramer, and Gibson guitars. Youth at our studios develop into accustomed to those manufacturers once they’re first studying and rising, and these are the manufacturers they may attain for once they can afford their first guitar or pair of displays. Providing gear that’s inside their monetary attain is essential to us.”
Schools or non-profit organizations which have a music-based mission can go to Gibson Gives’ Give Music web page to be thought of for the KRK Kares giving program.