Let's make music
Orange Crate Recordings is a boutique song lab, microstudio, and inspiration den nestled in a small orange grove at the foot of Ventura County one hour outside of Los Angeles. Founded and built by Devon Geyer in 2024 OCR is a true labor of love.
Equipped with a dozen large baffles and an isolation corner The Crate is the place to make professional recordings in a manageable room. With an emphasis on crafting great songs and great recordings Devon Geyer believes anything is possible if the juice is worth the squeeze.
Praise for “Paper Cut” by Verna Margaret and Devon Geyer
"A structurally perfect country song, Margaret's piercing vocals expose a seemingly lived pain within these lyrics. This song could have easily slipped into cliché, but the references to queer relationships, subtle modern touches and high-quality stereo production allow this classic sound to fit perfectly within the present."
- Country Cutler
“I was taken into a sway along to the music. A country track that I would love to hear late at night played with the sun setting over the sea! The vocals are dreamy, the music gently uplifting. I would suggest country radio would gain from giving this a spin, it has a decent kick to it.” -
- Rock The Joint Magazine
“Co-written with Devon Geyer and produced at the Orange Crate, “Paper Cut” pulls from country’s storytelling tradition — Gram Parsons, Lucinda Williams — while holding space for the sardonic edge of Fiona Apple or St. Vincent.”
- Gaspard Mather Conversations About Her
Produced by Devon Geyer
Here's a sampling of some of the albums I've made over the years.
The best stuff at OCR is the guitar, bass, and amp collection;
Guitars
1945 Martin 018
1972 Martin 12 String
1978 Takamine Nylon Classical
Nashville tuned FG-200
Fender American Special Edition Stratocaster with lipstick pickups
Fender Japanese Telecaster Thinline with OG American ’69 pickups
Fender Japanese Baritone Special
Fender American 60’s Jazz Bass reissue
Fender Japanese Mustang
Ukes
Oscar Shmidt Baritone Uke
Early 1900's handmade Banjo-Ukulele
Amplifiers
Ampeg 1965 B-15N
Fender Deluxe Reverb 1968 Drip Edge
Danelectro Maestro 1950’s
Magnatone 6.5” 1920’s
Harmony 420 1960's
+ also a Yamaha upright piano and a Nord Electro II as well as a drawer full of cool guitar pedals.
OCR uses an Apollo 8 interface on an Apple M1 computer, with playback listening on Genelec monitors. For microphones OCR has a Royer R-121, a DP TM-2, a Shure SM7-B, a pair of SM-81's, and a handful of dynamic microphones for drum recording as well as a BAE 1073 and a Great River preamp.