A purpose-built recording studio designed and constructed by NILES, a Nashville studio design/build firm. Room-within-a-room construction, non-parallel walls in the live room, custom wood paneling, and retractable curtains for variable acoustics. A small room built correctly, not a spare room with foam on the walls.
Track a full band live with real isolation: drums in the live room, guitar amp in the isolated amp closet, vocalist or DI in the control room. All at once, all doors closed, no bleed.
THE ROOMS
- Live room: non-parallel walls, retractable curtains to move from tight to more live, 12 tie lines
- Control room: 2 tie lines
- Amp closet: fully isolated, 2 tie lines
- 8' ceilings. Fully controlled lighting with no daylight variance
SIGNAL
- 16 simultaneous inputs, professionally run through the walls (12 live room / 2 amp closet / 2 control room)
- Universal Audio Apollo x8p (8 Unison preamps) chained to an Audient ASP880 (8 preamps), matching the room's 16 tie lines
- UAD Ultimate 13: the complete UAD plug-in library. Track through Neve 1073, API Vision, Manley, and UA 610 preamp emulations on the Unison inputs; 1176, LA-2A, Pultec, and Fairchild available while recording.
- Line and speaker-level tie lines to every room: run your head in the control room with the cab isolated elsewhere. Re-amping ready.
· Logic Pro in-house. Visiting engineers can connect their own machine to the Apollo over Thunderbolt and work in their preferred DAW.
MONITORING & CUE
- Yamaha HS7 nearfields in the control room
- Behringer P16 personal monitoring: three stations in the live room, each player building an independent mix from 16 sources
PODCAST READY
- 4× Shure SM7B with Cloudlifter/FetHead preamps: a full four-person setup in a properly isolated room, not a treated corner
INSTRUMENTS
- 1960s Rogers drum kit and a Yamaha Export Series kit: tell us which one you want when you book so we can have it set up and miked before your session starts
- Zildjian cymbals
- Congas, mics, shakers
- 1940s Hammond CV console organ (pre-percussion) through a Leslie 122 cabinet with 147 amplifier. 6-pin connectors
· Working mic locker: well-maintained and deep enough to cover a full kit + amps
Drummers are welcome to bring their own snare, cymbals, and pedals
SESSION SERVICES (optional add-ons)
- Use of the recording system with your own engineer
- In-house engineering
- Session bass, electric and upright: rock, country, jazz, Americana, bluegrass
- Production and arrangement
GETTING IN
- Ground-level covered load-in through the garage. No stairs.
- Wifi throughout
GOOD TO KNOW
- Room-within-a-room isolation makes late-night tracking genuinely possible: evening bookings welcome.
- The studio occupies the finished half of the basement of a private home. The unfinished half is available for use 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.
- Bathroom is upstairs and requires walking through the living space.
- The Hammond CV is pre-percussion. Gorgeous for pads, gospel, soul, and roots material: it won't give you an articulated jazz-organ attack.