Mothball Studios is a full-service, professionally treated, hybrid analog-digital recording studio located in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Designed and built by a film art director with lots of acoustic design experience, the rooms not only sound great but feature a uniquely whimsical aesthetic that's a whole lot of fun to work in. We've got a very furry console room, a very colorful live tracking room and a very closet-y amp closet.
All the rooms are fully connected with a premium quality cable snake/breakout box, screens with a 2-way video feed, and patch bays set up to streamline the routing to and from all hardware. And there's some seriously awesome gear to play with (see gear list below).
We're capable of tracking anything from solo singer-songwriters to live bands to podcasts, and are open to our guests filming video content as well. (Note that for larger, fully-crewed film shoots, rates may vary depending on needs and logistics.)
You can bring your own laptop or just bring a harddrive and hook up to ours: an Macbook Pro M1 Max with 64 GB RAM, loaded with Pro Tools, Ableton, Logic and tons of premium plugins. We've got ~80% of UAD plugins too, which you can load up to your heart's content on our 20-DSP chip Apollo system, without using up any RAM.
If you'd like to hire an engineer for tracking/mixing sessions, that can be added on for $40/hr.
Gear list (all power-conditioned):
Apollo x8p
Apollo Twin X
Apollo Satellite Octo
Focusrite Clarett+ Octopre
Summit Audio 2BA-221 (my personal favorite vox pre)
Cranborne Audio Camden EC2 (stereo preamp)
Aphex Channel Strips (x2)
Lindell Audio LIN76 Compressor
Suhr Reactive Load Box
Tascam 34 4-Channel Analog Tape Reel-to-Reel
Line 6 Helix Floor
Yamaha HS8 Monitors
Auratone 5C Monitors
Slate VSX Immersion One Headphones
Microphones:
3U Audio GZ47FETV (premium Neumann U47 clone)
3U Audio Warbler MKIID
Beyerdynamic M160 (x2)
Lauten Audio LA120 (x2)
Rhode NT1A
Shure SM57 (x3)
Sennheiser e835
AKG D112
Amps:
Vox AC15 Custom w/ Celestion Greenback Speaker
Traynor YCV80
Supro Blues King 12
SWR 550X Bass Amp w/ Carvin 2x15" Cab
Instruments:
Mapex Saturn IV Drum Kit
Fender Stratocaster
Fender Precision Bass
Eastwood Sidejack
Cort M900
Godin ACS-SA Nylon
Seagull Performer Mini Jumbo Acoustic