About Our Recording and Production Services

Rocking Horse Studio is both a commercial recording studio for hire and the home for the audio production efforts of producers Brian Coombes and David Pierog.

Since its official opening in 2008, Rocking Horse Studio has worked with major label, regional, and local recording acts, and it has built a close-knit community of musicians who all work together on each other’s recordings. The musical genres of the artists with whom we have worked are diverse; ranging from rock, pop, ska, and hip hop to folk, Americana, and music for children.

In addition to Rocking Horse artists playing on each other’s projects, the studio regularly employs a select group of session musicians that constitute our “house band” for in-house productions. This band includes:

David Pierog: drums
Joey Pierog: bass, vocals
Brian Coombes: keyboards, bass, vocals
Michelle Coombes: vocals
Myron Kibbee: guitar
Rick Black: keyboards

In 2009, Mix Magazine selected Rocking Horse Studio for inclusion in its annual “Class Of” feature, which showcases the best new recording facilities from around the world to open in the previous 12 months.

Brian Coombes

Brian Coombes is the studio’s in-house producer, engineer, and session musician. He was a founding member of Tristan Park, a progressive rock band that was signed to the British record label, GFT Ltd. The band recorded four albums and toured extensively in Europe and North America before going into hiatus in 1998.

Following his time with Tristan Park, Brian wrote, recorded, and mixed a collection of songs with his wife, Michelle, and a group of musicians that included future Rocking Horse Studio partner, David Pierog. The resulting album, Waking in the Blue’s Isn’t It Pretty to Think So?, was released by Griffin Music in 2003. The disc featured guest appearances by Squeeze vocalist Chris Difford and King Crimson multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald.

Brian continues to produce and engineer for artists in a diverse range of musical genres, from singer/songwriters to hip-hop, folk to progressive metal, alt-country to ska, blues to music for children. In addition to his production and engineering work, Brian often contributes bass and keyboard parts to many projects.

Brian is a voting member of both the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the Producers & Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy (NARAS).

David Pierog

In addition to roles as in-house producer and session musician, David is responsible for client services at Rocking Horse. He has studied music under renowned percussionist Albert LaFlamme for many years, exposing him to many different styles of music. He has a wide array of performing and recording credits to his name, most recently co-producing and performing on Godsmack guitarist Tony Rombola’s upcoming solo album.