Tour of Shock City Studios

May 20, 2009 News

Our Great Studio Hunt began on May 19th with a visit to Shock City Studios. We met with Chris and Doug, who are IMHO two of the nicest guys in the business, and they quickly started to show us around.

Before I begin I would like to state that I am NOT an Audio Engineer guy, and wont even pretend to know what I’m talking about when it comes to gear. If you want to know more about what they offer or the toys they own, contact them on their website. But I will tell you about my experience in their studio, and will try to describe, to the best of my ability, what I saw and what I understand. With that said…

We started in Studio A, the big room with the mixing board, can be seen on their website. They showed us all the bells and whistles, but also showed why it was built that way. They talked about everything from how the walls were built and why they were put together that way to each piece of equipment on the racks. We listened to a track they were currently working on, and to say the least, it sounded great. It may not have been my style of music, but the quality was there. They have 3 sets of speakers behind the board to listen from, but the kicker for me was they were able to play it through a normal ‘boom box’. In my experience with studios, the music always sounds good on the big speakers, but we like to burn a copy and listen to it in the car (that’s where most people listen anyway).

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