We make records in The HYVE! From overdubs, to radio-ready recordings. Enjoy a team of experienced professional musicians, mixers, producers, engineers to make your recording, and with policies and a culture that prioritizes the rights, & well-being of artists and musicians. Bringing music to life is what we do!
Meet The HVYE Studio Team
The HYVE Recording assembled an experienced and professional music team and quality equipment for every step of the recording process. With experience in jazz, country, punk, grunge, pop, this team is all over the map. Get to know everybody!
Equipment
People make records, and the tools of the trade are what make it possible. The HYVE team has collaborated to assemble the equipment necessary, and we're always striving to grow. If there is a piece of equipment necessary to make the next record, we'll get our hands on it.
Dynamic Microphones
Sure SM57
Sure SM58
Sure Beta 52A
Sure PGA52
EV N/D 408
Condenser Microphones
WA - 47
Rode NT1A
Rode NT5
AKG P420
Ribbon Microphones
Royer R10
A/D Converters
Scarlett 3rd Gen 18i20
Clarett+ OctoPre
SSL 2+
Outboard Preams & Compressors
Neive 1073
Tube Compressor
Recording Plugins
Universal Audio
Mixing
Mastering
These demo recordings represent works in progress, and are the results of each 3-hour session. Additional recording, mixing, and even some co-writing for each song remains in progress until songs are published.
Copyright © 2025 The HYVE and Joe Hamm All Rights Reserved.
Rep The HYVE
The HYVE re-invests back into the Nashville music community through it's support of
Music City Movement and Creative Pulse Nashville.
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The HYVE Proudly Sponsors:
Partner Organizations
The enthusiastic collaboration and support from our partner organizations appreciated.
Thank you!
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The HYVE is held at a professional music rehearsal studios in Nashville. The music is facilitated and produced by Joe Hamm. A Nashville based drummer and producer, Joe is an experience leader and designer of collective music composition workshops.
Joe performs professionally, works as a recording artist, holds a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies, performed in venues from festivals, fine arts centers, jazz clubs, amphitheaters, rock venues, and punk rock basements. Joe has facilitated workshops and music programming throughout the country for participant musicians including Virginia Symphony, Alexandria Symphony Orchestra programs, Los Angeles Philharmonic musicians, with student-musicians ranging from elementary beginner to university music students as an Adjunct-Professor pursuing liberal arts bachelors degrees with concentrations performance, music education, and creative studies.
Professional working musicians, public school, and El Sistema USA member program students and Teaching Artists have participated in local, regional, and national collaborations. Joe built the The HYVE specifically for the professional and working musician community. Participants are guided to write and record an original piece of music. Genre-mixing, standard-breaking and bending, expression, risk taking, and enthusiastic encouragement are the ingredients, and growing and honing critical professional music skills the recipe.
FAQ
When is the next one?
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The HYVE co-writes are scheduled regularly, and as registration will be available as advertised.
Who can participate?
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Instrumentalists, songwriters, lyricists, vocalists, producers are among those that participate. You get the idea! If you love collaborating and making new music, this is for you.
How much does it cost?
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Registration amount is $40 USD per participant for the workshop. Follow partner organizations on Instagram for promo codes!
What does the money pay for?
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Registration fees cover costs for facilitation, studio space access, and is re-invested in the local community.
Standards & Values
Collaborative experiences are inclusive, warm, welcoming spaces. Here's what you can expext:
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Professional and working musicians deserve access to high quality, intensive, enriching, and experiential music workshops.
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Musicians of all ages, skill levels, and instruments are capable of collaborative composition, and welcome to participate.
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The Hyve supports local businesses, and the local music economy in order to pay for materials, space, and for the time of all involved in making The Hyve successful.
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Professional Musicians and Creative Leaders are both participants and contributors to the creative process.
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Social relevance and lived experience are essential components of the composition content.
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Musical quality and expression are critical to communicating a musical message.
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The value of the collective composition experience exists in the process, the new relationships, and the musical outcome.
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The composition process encourages diversity of ideas and genres, and is inclusive of ideas, colors, creeds, sexual orientations, and life experience backgrounds.
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Discrimination, bigotry, racism, sexism, and homophobia, etc will not be tolerated.