The Studio

The current homebase is in Gowanus, Brooklyn, and rapidly being encroached on by the rapacious march of the developers' bulldozers. Still, we're happy to be in this vibrant area. We've got a pretty modest-sized tracking room, but it's well treated and has been getting us great guitar, bass, and vocal recordings. But mostly—oh man—do the drums sound good in there. I think it's a combination of the high ceilings, the treatment, and the old bones of what used to be an industrial woodworking shop, but we're getting great drums for a not-huge space.

We have tracked groups of up to five, with keys, but it's a little tight. Four is less so. We don't have isolation, so we tend to track guitars, keys, and bass through amp sims on headphones if they are going down at the same time as the drums. Yes, more of this please. We do a lot of going back and re-amping through our wall of really nice amps.