Russian Recording is a full-service analog and digital recording studio located in downtown Bloomington, IN that has contributed to over a thousand records since 2003. The studio provides recording, mixing, and mastering services in a spacious and comfortable environment, accompanied by the finest studio cats you can find. In addition to our studio cats, there are several experienced in-house engineers and producers you can choose to work with: Mike Bridavsky, Matt Tobey, Ben Lumsdaine, Kyle Houpt, and John Dawnson. The studio can also be rented without an engineer if you'd like to engineer your own project, or bring an outside engineer with you (there will always be someone there to get you situated and assist as needed).
The studio boasts an impressive and eclectic assortment of some of the finest modern and vintage recording equipment and musical instruments available, all of it in impeccable working condition. At the heart of the studio is a fully refurbished 24 channel Sphere Eclipse A mixing console, Burl Mothership A/D/A converters, an Otari MX-80 2" 16/24 track tape machine, and a fully refurbished Studer B67 1/4" half-track tape machine. We have a carefully curated collection of new and vintage microphones, compressors, microphone preamps, equalizers, and effects, as well as one of the most complete and immaculate collections of vintage Soviet microphones on the planet. The studio has a plentiful selection of new and vintage guitars, basses, amplifiers, drum sets, and acoustic instruments, including a regularly tuned grand piano. All of our equipment is obsessively maintained, calibrated, and fully operational.
The studio consists of three tracking rooms; a spacious live room with beautiful natural light (23'x28'x17'), a live isolation room (10'x11'x13.5') and a dead isolation room (9'x10'x12'). Each room has been acoustically treated and isolated, and has its own distinct sound providing a wide variety of sonic options. The control room (13'W x 21'D x 11.5'H) is a comfortable and acoustically neutral listening environment with plenty of natural light. There is a large lounge with a kitchenette, TV, and a hi-fi.
The layout of the studio is designed so that there are clear sight lines between each of the tracking rooms and the control room. There are tie lines to every room, allowing total flexibility with amp placement and headphone routing, making it possible to put any musician in any room and be able to send any signal to and from anywhere in the studio.