Recording Lab

Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots Music

LAB RATES

Studio Rental Rate – $25/hr or $180/8-hour day
Rate does not include an engineer.

Please submit all recording lab inquiries to Benjamin Bateson:

Officially completed in 2008, the ETSU Recording Laboratory is a state-of-the-art recording studio on East Tennessee State University’s main campus. The recording lab is a roughly 950-square-foot facility that features a spacious main tracking room, an isolation room, and a comfortable control room — all of which is acoustically isolated from the rest of the building. The rooms are well treated with diffusion and sound absorption to create an excellent sounding space for any type of recording for any genre of music. The studio is consistently outfitted with high-quality, state-of-the-art equipment. Please see the equipment list for more details.

ETSU students use the recording lab as a part of several audio production courses offered by the university's Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots music program. In these courses students learn about the physics of sound, studio signal flow, how to best record acoustic instruments, and how to use a digital audio workstation. Pro Tools Ultimate is the studio’s primary digital audio workstation and students learn to use it effectively for recording, editing, and mixing audio.

In 2016 the recording lab received a grant to replace the studio’s aging Digidesign C24 control surface with an API 1608 analog recording console. The console is the heart of the studio and provides 16 channels of high-quality preamps as well as added flexibility when recording and mixing.

The recording lab can be rented for an hourly and/or daily fee. This rental fee does not include an engineer. Clients have two options: provide their own engineer who is proficient in Pro Tools and analog signal flow; or hire a qualified engineer from the ETSU Bluegrass, Old Time, and Roots Music community. Rates for engineering will vary, but $30 per hour is standard. All projects are welcome including EPs, album projects, singles, dialog for TV/film, audio books, and podcasts. Please contact Benjamin Bateson at bateson@etsu.edu for rates and availability.

Console

API 1608 w automation
Microphones

AEA R84

AKG C451B x2

AKG C414 XLS x2

AKG C3000B

Audio Technica 4033 x2

Earthworks M30 x2

Neumann U87ai

Neumann KM184 x2

Peluso P28 x2

Peluso P12

Peluso 2247SE

Peluso TR14

Rode NTK

Sennheiser MKH8040 x2

Shure SM57 x4

Shure SM58 x3

Shure Beta 57a

Shure KSM32 x2

Shure KSM44
Preamplifiers

API 512c x2

Grace Design m801

Speck Audio MP5.0 x2

Vintech Audio 473
Compressors

API 525 x2

Daking FET III

Distressors EL8-X x2

Manley ELOP

SSL 611DYN x2

Tube-tech CL-1B

UA 1176 x2
Equalizers

API 550a x 14

API 550b x 2

API 560 x 4

Manley Enhanced Pultec

Chandler Ltd Tonecontrol

RecPro Audio Pultec EQP-1A
Conversion

Burl Audio B16 Mothership

Avid HD I/O 16x16 x2

Pro Tools HDX 1