About TortoiseClimbing

Beginning of TortoiseClimbing




TortoiseClimbing™ was created in 1993 as part of privately releasing the 1st album, Solo Collection. The original conservative goals/mission were to produce:

  1. Nice albums, for
  2. Private release to friends and family.



Early Experiences Included:

Initially, Mr. Bill McElroy was David's chief audio engineer and associate producer.

Bill was one of the two partners who established Bias. (For details on Bill McElroy, see Bill McElroy.) Bill was assisted from time to time by their then new employee that Bill was helping mentor, Ms. Heidi Gerber-Salins. (She replaced Mr. McElroy as David's chief audio engineer at Bias when Mr. McElroy left Bias.)


The first private album was released in the then still rather popular cassette format, although CDs were also doing quite well. The solo ballads were recorded dominantly with piano accompaniments, and are from shortly before, during, and the decade or so after the World War II era.

In addition to creating TortoiseClimbing™ as part of privately releasing that 1st private recording, David also:


Subsequent Upgrade in Goals

A significant upgrade in the goals/mission occurred in 1998, as part of making the album Hymns and Songs of My Mother. The goals/mission were upgraded to:

  1. Produce outstanding recordings;
  2. For public release.

Additionally as part of producing Hymns and Songs of My Mother, the producer of Phase I educated David to the value of:


An impact of upgrading its mission/goals following creation of the 1st private album, and learning more technical knowledge of production and post production, is TortoiseClimbing Audio™ acquired the knowledge to rework the original masters. We are applying that knowledge to post production processing, remixing and remastering of the songs to meet our higher audio standards for public release (targeted in pieces beginning in Winter 2024.)

TortoiseClimbing Audio™ has largely completed upgrading the individual songs recorded with friends before undertaking the Solo Collection album. (They only await creation of art work to be made live on our online Audio Marketplace.)

The next step toward upgrading the Solo Collection album and Romantic Duets album was completed 5-18-2022. Namely, the master analogue tapes were decoded from the Dolby A noise reduction encoding and converted to digital. With completion of Hymns and Songs of My Mother, we will be initiating the following steps to upgrade the original digital version of the Solo Collection album:

  • Post production process,
  • Augment accompaniments,
  • Remix, and
  • Remaster.

The fate of the subsequent draft Romantic Duets album is unknown at this time.)

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During the time David recorded at Bias Recording Studio, he had the privilege of working with 2 wonderful engineers and producers. See some facts about them at Colleagues.




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