Our Studio

ATTENTION!!

UNDERGROUND RECORDING IS CLOSED

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Underground Recording opened January 1, 1985, and in these last 25 years we have produced thousands of demos and full length projects. Nestled in the foothills of The Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee we are accessible not only by McGhee Tyson Airport of Knoxville, but Interstates 75 and 40 intersect in Knoxville, a short drive away, making it accessible by car from coast to coast and border to border. The studio has a main tracking room of 20 ft.x16 ft., a separate 9 ft.x8 ft. recording room, an isolated vocal booth, and a 10 ft.x12 ft. control room. We also have a lounge and full bath. This a musician-owned studio and we pride ourselves in offering a relaxed atmosphere with low pricing and quality results. Underground Recording recently won an award for the most courteous studio in Knoxville. We encourage your input and ideas during mixdown, while allowing the engineer to do the mix. Sometimes the musicians themselves want to make all of the mix decisions, but in many of these cases the results have been less than what we are capable of doing. Basically, teamwork is the best policy for mixing. If possible, have an experienced producer accompany you, and together with the engineer your music will get the best mix.

The equipment includes a Tascam MX2424, which is a 24-bit 24-track hard disc recorder. We also still have our 3 ADAT XTs with BRC for a secondary 24-track recording/editing system, and a Tascam MSR-16, which is a 16-track analog reel-to-reel recorder with remote. Our 2-track analog reel to reel mastering decks are a Tascam 32 (which is running through a dbx 150 type 1), a Teac 2340 and a Sony TC-630. Our recording desk is a Soundcraft 32x8 Ghost Console w/MMC. We have over 2 dozen microphones including Neumann, AKG, Sennheiser, AT, Shure, Equitek, Oktava, and EV. Our large collection of outboard gear includes Lexicon, T.C. Electronics, Focusrite, Ashley, Aphex, dbx, Symetrix, Yamaha, Alesis, BBE and Fostex. Monitors are Event Trias in the main studio and KRK Rokit 8's in the control room. We also have a set of multimedia speakers in the control room...Altec Lansings with/subwoofer. For digital mastering we have Soundforge 8.0 w/plug-ins and for editing and automated mixing in our PC we have Pro Tools 7.4 w/plug-ins. For headphone monitoring we have a Q-Mix HM-6 Matrix Mixer which allows the listener to control their own mix individually. We also have 4 Rolls PM 50s headphone extension units which enable us to run a total of 10 headphones simultaeously. Our headphones include 5 Sennheiser HD 202's, 5 AKG K-55's, and 1 Sony MDR 7502. For the engineer we have 1 AKG K240. Our patchbays are balanced Furmans. Our CD player is a professional Marantz PMD320, our DAT machine is a Tascam DA-30, and our cassette deck is a Tascam 202MXII. We also have a 4X CD duplicator, a Tascam CD-D4000. Our computer is a custom made dual core Pentium 4 with a 3 gig processor, a 120 gig 10,000 rpm Seagate hard drive and 2 extra 20 gig drives for backups. We are running Windows XP Pro. The CD/DVD writer is a 52X Sony. Our line conditioners are Furman and Juice Goose. Our power regulators are APC UPS's, which give clean sine wave tracking for all of the studio power.

We encourage your band to bring it's own instruments for two reasons. First, you will get your personal sound that you are familiar with, and second, if you use the studio instruments you are liable for any damage which occurs. For that reason we offer free setup/micing time of your gear for up to 90 minutes. Our instruments include for drums, a 5-piece Ludwig kit with Zyldjan and Sabian cymbals. For electric guitars, we have a Fender Strat, a B.C. Rich Gunslinger, and a Gibson/Epiphone SG. For acoustic guitar we have a Yamaha 6-string, and for bass we have a Fender Squire 4-string. Our piano is a 1927 Gulbransen Baby Grand, and we have a 1987 Akai AX-80 keyboard. Our amps are a 1971 Ampeg VT-22 tube amp, a Fender Vibroverb tube amp, and a 70's model Traynor YBA-3 tube head with a 1970 Kustom cabinet with the original 15-inch Jensings. We also have Line 6 Pods for both guitar and bass, a Sansamp bass amp simulator, a Sansamp Bass Compactor, a Tom Scholz Bass Ace and a Rockman, a Stewart 4-channel active/passive D.I. box, a Crybaby Wah Pedal, a 1976 Mutron wah/volume pedal, and a few stomp boxes. Having said all of that I again say that it is best that you bring your own gear and we will let you setup and get miced up free of charge.

865-573-5269