For the DIY-ERS

Use our facility to record the parts of your project that are a struggle at home…

Let us help with the hard stuff!

Whatever part of the process you struggle with at home, contact us to see how we can help. Track the hard stuff here, I’ll provide WAV files from your session to continue work at home.

Vocals

Record your vocal tracks in our acoustically treated ISO booths; using our versitile collection of high-quality microphones and preamps. This will make a significant improvement in your vocal recordings.

Guitars: Re-Amping

Tired of amp sims? Can’t crank the volume at home? Send me your DI guitar tracks, I’ll send back great tones. The recording of your performance is played-back through real amps and captured through real mics and preamps. This is done with a little help from our Radial Studio Reamper. I’ll send back WAV files that you can import back in to your original DAW file to continue work.

Drums:

Great sounding rooms. Our kit, or yours. Close, spot and room mics. Great mic collection. Stop the home recording insanity!

Mixing and Mastering

Maybe you can handle all the tracking at home, but you would like to have me mix and master your songs for you. I have many years of experience mixing and mastering all styles of music and delivering masters optimized for all formats. Our acoustically treated control room with multiple monitoring systems provides everything necessary to ensure your recording sound great on any system.

Rooms

Newly renovated in 2016, the new space includes double-wall construction on all interior and exterior walls, hardwood floors, acoustic treatment and bass traps in all rooms, custom amp rack in control room for cab connect to isos and main tracking room, ultra-quiet HVAC and mechanicals and easy load-in/out.

Tracking Room - Large 23x27

Control Room - Comfortable 16x17

Isos (2) 8x10 and 7x8

Outdoor Courtyard - Cuz sometimes, ya need a break.

Gear

DAW

Pro Tools 12 HD Software w/ a great collection of Plug-ins including Slate Digital, WAVES, Melodyne, Izotope and more…
Avid 16 Analog I/O Interface
Mac Pro 12-Core w/ Avid HDX
(2) 27″ Samsung HD Video Monitors

Mic Pres:

Universal Audio 4-710-d
Warm Audio WA-412 (2)
Warm Audio WA-273
Peavey VMP2

Recorders:

Pro Tools 12 HD
Alesis HD-24
Alesis Adats (5) w/BRC
Panasonic SV-3700 Dat
Sony DAT
Tascam 302 Dual Cassette
Yamaha MT-120 4-Track
Ampex 1/4″ 2-Track Analog

Monitors:

Mackie H824mkII
(2)Alesis Monitor One
Yamaha S-83 Ms
Yamaha S-8 M

Outboard Gear:

Drawmer DL 241Comp/Limit.
ART Pro VLA Comp/Limiter
Presonus 8 Ch Compressor/Gate Alesis 3630 2-Ch.Comp/Limit.
Lexicon LXP 15 II Digital FX
Lexicon MX 200
Eventide H-3000
ZOOM 1204 Digital FX
ZOOM RFX-2000
Digitech S1000
ART Digital Reverb
Alesis Quadraverb

Microphones:

Neumann U87 AI
Royer R-121 (matched pair)
AKG Solid Tube
AKG C 414 B-ULS
Audio Technica AT 4033 (2)
EV RE-20
Sennheiser 421
Shure PG 56 (3)
Shure PG 52
Shure SM 57 (6)
Shure SM 58 (2)
EV ND Series Snare Mic
EV ND Series Bass Drum Mic
EV Lapel Mic (2)

Instruments

Paul Reed Smith EG Bolt-on
Charvel Pro Mod San Dimas Tele
Schecter PT Fastback
Fender Squire Telecaster
Ibanez Semi-Hollow
Alvarez Acoustic
TAMA Rockstar 5-Piece Drumset
Ibanez SDGR Bass
Fender Squire Bass w/EMG’s

Guitar Amps/Pre Amps and Processors:

Marshall JCM 900
MESA Road King II
MESA Lonestar Classic 1×12 100 Watt
Vox AC30
Carvin X-100B 2×12 100 watt combo
ADA MP1 Guitar Pre-amp
Line 6 POD 2.0
ZOOM Guitar FX Processor
Many FX Pedals
Avatar 2×12 w/ V30’s
(2) Carvin 2×12 Cabs
MESA 2×12 Rectifier w/ V 30’s
MESA Lonestar 1×12 Cab

Extras:

Fridge, Outdoor Patio

Nearby:

Martini’s, 4th Coast Cafe, The Crow’s Nest , Bagel Beanery, Taco Bob’s, Happy’s Pizza, Convenience Store.

Service

Recording is what we do…full-time. Your satisfaction means the world to us. Our goal is to make you so incredibly happy with the sound quality and service throughout the project, that you’ll send your friends to come and work with us as well. That’s much easier than “marketing” for new clients.

•Comfortable recording environment. Low-key. Low pressure approach.
•Experienced engineers. Since 1994, we’ve helped with hundreds of projects.
•Large Rooms. 23×27 main live room. 16×17 control room. Iso booths.
•Courtyard/Patio for break-time.
•Convenient downtown Kalamazoo location. In the Vine Neighborhood – across from Martinis.
•Restaurants/convenience stores nearby.

Flexible Scheduling Options

Again, this is what we do. Days, nights, weekends are all fair game. We’ll find an opening that works for you – and your drummer. Phone calls and E-mails will be returned within 24 hours. Recording is an odd business in terms of hours. We don’t have set office hours. If we don’t pick-up, leave a message and rest assured we’ll call you back.