FACILITIES AND CAPABILITIES - The Detroit Retro Society

MORE THAN JUST A BAND.

The Detroit Retro Society is a service of The Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music®. We have the finest team of contemporary music producers, performers, teachers and students available in the region. We also have one of the area’s best dedicated production facilities to rehearse, record, and produce projects and events. Centrally located Royal Oak, Michigan, if there’s a need for making music, this musician’s nirvana has you covered.

Photo: The Detroit Retro Society team was hired to produce The Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music® choir with Foreigner at DTE Energy Music Theater for 10 sold-out shows opening for Kid Rock.

REHEARSALS

MEETINGS

VIDEOS

RECORDING

SERVICES

This is a small sampling of our professional capabilities. Contact us to discuss your project needs today!

Rehearsal Rentals

Room Rentals
Tour Pre-Production
Artist Development
Monthly Church Rentals
Live Concert Consulting
Musician Contracting
Music Direction

Audio Recording

Audition Tapes
Audition Recording Sessions
Demo Reels
Music Composing
Custom Music
Recording Sessions
Voiceover Recordings

Video Production

Audition Videos
Video Shoots
Video Production / Editing
College Audition Videos
Promotional / Marketing Videos
Multimedia Presentations
Graphics and Websites

CLIENTS

Our facility has been graced by Grammy and Oscar winning musicians over the years. With a client list as varied as Bettye LaVette, Al Jarreau, Nelson Rangell and 80’s superstar Tiffany, rest assured that our team can make your rehearsal or recording experience a delight.

RATES

Our comprehensive teams and proprietary techniques give clients of all types opportunities to put their dreams into action.

REHEARSAL RENTALS

The Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music® offers rehearsal rentals to some of Metro Detroit’s best productions and tours, as well as many national touring acts that visit Detroit each year.

Fully equipped rehearsal studios ammenities include:

– Complete Backline (Drums, Bass Amp, Guitar Amps, Keyboard)

– Rehearsal PA Systems

– Internet Access

– Comfortable Lobby

– Professional Multitrack Recording Capabilities

– Complimentary Water, Coffee, and Tea

– Convenient Location

Rehearsal Rental Rates:

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RECORDING STUDIO

As a fully functioning recording studio, The Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music® is equipped to make your next project a success. From small songwriting demos and college audition recordings, to complete orchestra sessions, The DSRP can help you finish on time and on budget with some of the most reasonable rates around. With a faculty of some of the most accomplished recording musicians in town down the hall, and a team of composers and arrangers, rest assured that when you need some help with music, we can handle that too.

Recording Studio Time with Engineer

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SESSION MUSICIANS

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VIDEO SERVICES

Video projects come in all shapes and sizes, so we don’t have simple rates for them. We would love to sit down and chat about your needs and craft a plan to make your vision come to life.

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MEETING RENTALS

We get a lot of requests to hold fun off-site meetings for large company training events or team building activities. The Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music® can produce some spectacular surroundings for your team to connect, recharge, and fire on all cylinders. Contact us to get the conversation started.

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Rehearsal Rental Client: Tiffany

Rehearsal Rental Client: Bettye Lavette

Rehearsal Rental Client: Australian Rock Band - LongReef

Video Production Client: Marc Dorian

FACILITY

We are conveniently located in Royal Oak, right in the middle of the Metro Detroit region.

The Building

There’s 3600 Square feet of musician’s nirvana. If there’s a need for making music, we have it covered.

Teaching Studios

Our teaching studios are spacious. We mean big. Really big. These rooms were purpose built to give you room to stretch out and learn without hitting your guitar on the walls.

Pro Gear

We keep nothing but professional gear in our arsenal. No kid’s toys here. You’re practicing to be one of the greats. You should be playing on the same gear as them.

More Than Basics

We don’t just have the basic gear needed to make great music. We have nearly everything any professional production facility would have to produce a recording or show.

Recording Studio

Whether you need recording time to produce a college audition demo, or you need a full-on professional production team to manage a global audio project; we have done it all. Contact us today!

Studio Circle

The students of The Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music get the studio every Monday evening as part of their programs! Studio Circle is a free club for all students where they make projects come to life each week.

Rehearsal Rentals/Shows

KEM, Al Jarreau, Nelson Rangell, Adam Deitch and Lettuce, and many others have called The DSRP their temporary home for rehearsals, video shoots, photo shoots, and live concerts.

Organized

Our studio is complemented regularly about having the most unparalleled selection of equipment of any community music school in the region.

AMENITIES AND AVAILABILITY

There’s a comfortable lobby with couches, free WiFi, bathrooms, and usually water and coffee in our kitchenette. Once in a while there’s even cookies!

The Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music building has children musicians in the building at times, so we are drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and firearm free and reserve the right to censor music lyrics should they involve profanity or hate speech. We maintain a positive and professional environment at all times.

Availability on weekdays is generally during the day, or late at night (after 9:30pm) as we operate as a music school in the early evenings. Friday’s and Weekends offer a little more flexibility.

Client: The Lafayettes

PROJECT SAMPLES

Over the years, we have been involved in countless projects. From sourcing and producing choirs to sing with Foreigner in front of 160,000 people at 10 sold out shows at DTE Energy Music Theater, to music videos and photo shoots for Universal Record’s Motown Subsidiary, The Gittinger’s and the team at The Detroit Retro Society and The Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music® know how to get things done.

Executive Producer, Jason Gittinger and the team is committed to the surrounding community. Jason finds himself involved with civic activities like chairing the Royal Oak Commission for the Arts at Royal Oak City Hall, serving as President of the Royal Oak Chamber of Commerce, producing art projects like the Royal Oak Public Piano Project and Royal Oak Summer Concert Series, and starting the city’s annual civic pride celebration called Roam Home. The team is connected to the community and can help you get there too.