Once limited to people with money or access to a large space, recording and mixing a decent track is now as simple as acquiring a few key pieces of equipment — and finding a couple extra inches of table space. Located on sunset boulevard, the magnificent studios at united recording have attracted the biggest names in recording history. From frank sinatra, nat king cole, ray charles and eric clapton to contemporary artists like green day, radiohead, the red hot chili peppers and alabama shakes, united recording has played host to generation after generation of music legend.

The use of different kinds of microphones and their placement around the studio was a crucial part of the recording process, and particular brands of microphones were used by engineers for their specific audio characteristics. The smooth-toned ribbon microphones developed by the rca company in the 1930s were crucial to the "Crooning" style perfected by bing crosby, and the famous neumann u47 condenser microphone was one of the most widely used from the 1950s. This model is still widely regarded by audio professionals as one of the best microphones of its type ever made. Learning the correct placement of microphones was a major part of the training of young engineers, and many became extremely skilled in this craft. Well into the 1960s, in the classical field it was not uncommon for engineers to make high-quality orchestral recordings using only one or two microphones suspended above the orchestra.

Engineers soon found that large, reverberant spaces like concert halls created a vibrant acoustic signature as the natural reverb enhanced the sound of the recording. In this period large, acoustically "Live" halls were favored, rather than the acoustically "Dead" booths and studio rooms that became common after the 1960s. In the 2000s, modern sound stages still sometimes use this approach for large film scoring projects that use large orchestras.

Most importantly, our engineers are well versed in their art, expert at their craft,Recording studio and understanding of the needs of our clients. Recording studio has worked with some of the brightest up-and-coming and established artists since its founding by larry crane (founder of tape op magazine/oregon music hall of fame inductee, 2019) in 1997. The likes of built to spill, wooden shjips, sleater-kinney, sonic youth, spoon, r.E.M., the decemberists,stephen malkmus,she & him, eddie vedder, battleme,summer cannibals, m. Ward, quasi, jason lytle,moon duo, the go-betweens, and, perhaps most famously, elliott smith, have used jackpot!

Acoustic drums require sound isolation in this scenario, unlike electronic or sampled drums. Getting an authentic electric guitar amp sound including power-tube distortion requires a power attenuator or an isolation cabinet, or booth. A convenient compromise is amplifier modeling, whether a modeling amp, preamp/processor, or software-based guitar amp simulator. Sometimes, musicians replace loud, inconvenient instruments such as drums, with keyboards, which today often provide somewhat realistic sampling. When you step foot in our studio, you become a part of the team.

Sometimes, if the rapport between the lead actors is strong enough and the animation studio can afford it, the producers may use a recording studio configured with multiple isolation booths in which the actors can see each another and the director. This enables the actors to react to one another in real time as if they were on a regular stage or film set. A small, personal recording studio is sometimes called a project studio or home studio.

General-purpose computers rapidly assumed a large role in the recording process. With software, a powerful, good quality computer with a fast processor can replace the mixing consoles, multitrack recording equipment, synthesizers, samplers and effects unit (reverb, echo, compression, etc.) that a recording studio required in the 1980s and 1990s. A computer thus outfitted is called a digital audio workstation, or daw. Slate digital presents the virtual recording studio – a hybrid system of state of the art hardware and digitally modeled software products that allows audio engineers to have the studio of their dreams. Record through a locker full of virtual microphones in near real time, mix through virtual analog consoles with racks of virtual gear, and master using the industry’s top finalizing tools that are used by the biggest pros. Recording drums and amplified electric guitar in a home studio is challenging because they are usually the loudest instruments.