Our Team is led by Jim Stafford with 40 years of engineering experience.

For over 40 years, Jim has developed the skills and experience in engineering to become the leading force behind Eclipse Recording Studios www.eclipserecording.com.

He has taken his passion for media engineering and production, where he’s garnered a deep understanding of how audio and video technologies function in a production environment.

Eclipse was founded in 2000 by Jim Stafford but its origins date back to 1973. It was then that he purchased his first multi-track recorder. A Teac 334os and his love for recording music began. Since then, through a variety of formats: Analog-Digital Tape and finally Protools. Jim has recorded virtually every style and genre of music.

Uller Bailey is a passionate Musician, Producer, and Audio Engineer with 20+ years of experience performing teaching, arranging, recording, mixing, editing, and producing various genres of Popular Contemporary Music. Uller graduated in 2004 from a Berklee International Network School in Mexico City with a Bachelor’s Degree in Popular Contemporary music and specializations in Performance, Composition, Audio engineering, Electric guitar, and Vocals.

Uller is s Pro Tools certification, Reason, Cubase, and Logic Pro X expert. Involved in many productions locally in Mexico City as a tracking and mixing engineer, sound editor, songwriter, incidental music composer, session guitarist, and vocalist including 3 LPs and 1 EP of his own band FIUSHA FUNK BAND. He has also taught for more than 12 years in several colleges in Mexico City, subjects such as sound editing, music production, audio engineering, electric guitar, and vocals in many of Mexico City’s most prestigious music and engineering schools.

He has most recently joined the amazing team at Eclipse Recording Company as a producer, arranger, composer, engineer, and session musician.

After studying music from a very young age, Zan received his degree in Recording Arts from Full Sail University in 2007. He briefly worked in a local Orlando studio before relocating to St. Thomas Virgin Islands where he was the lead engineer for studio A at ISW Studios. There, he was able to work with artists from a wide variety of genres from Hard Rock to Country, Hip Hop, and Reggae. From there he came to St. Augustine in 2010, where he began working with Eclipse.

Zan is proficient across multiple daws including Protools, Logic, and Cubase. In addition to being in the studio, Zan is also very experienced in LIVE Sound Mixing and Audio Production for video.

Eight-time Emmy Award-winning television sports and entertainment audio mixer Jim Budka joins Eclipse Studios in St. Augustine. After an extensive career in the television broadcast audio business, he has relocated from Atlanta to St. Augustine and has joined the LIVE Audio Production crew. Jim’s background includes missing such prestige events as the Olympics, Superbowls, Final Fours, World Series, Masters, College Football Bowl games, Nascar races, and Political conventions. Jim has just finished a 15-year position at Turner Broadcasting.

Melody a.k.a. Jim’s daughter a.k.a. Best Chef of St. Augustine (2 years in a row)! She came to record today, using a gift certificate she got for her birthday! Melody Stewart records original piano compositions with vocals. She began her music career with guitar at the age of 12. Then took piano lessons with Marilyn Boren (Jim Stafford’s mom) at age 15!

Melody is going to name her cd “Story of My Life” Melody says, “Jim/Dad is a very talented engineer, and I trust his judgment, If he says I can learn rhythm, then I can!” Melody was voted the Best Chef of St. Augustine, 2 years in a row by the St. Augustine Record.

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