The Blue Grotto is our boutique studio located in the Nolensville area of Nashville. It features a comfortable, open plan style control room and a highly versatile tracking room – great for smaller tracking sessions that include drums, string quartets or overdubs of any kind. It’s also a wonderful space to make vocalists feel relaxed. We have an upright piano, a tack piano and a super vibey early digital organ (and even a didgeridoo in the event that your project calls for one and you know how to play it!).

To get a sense of the space, here is a clip of a string quartet recorded in the room (3 stacks total):

And here are some drum recordings from the room:

Our Gear (for the technically minded)

Controller: Solid State Logic Nucleus
Apogee Symphony I/O with 16X16 analogue I/O

MICROPHONE PREAMPS:
Great River MP-2NV Dual Pre
SSL SuperAnalogue Preamps (included in the Nucleus)
API 3124+ 4 Channel Pre
Universal Audio 4-710d
Joemeek VC2 Tube
Focusrite Platinum Trak Master Channel Strip

COMPRESSORS:
Universal Audio 2-1176
dbx 266xs
4 X 1176 style compressors built into each channel of the 4-710d pre
A LA-2A style (opto) compressor built into the Joemeek

MICROPHONES:
Neumann M 149 Tube
Neumann TLM103
sE Electronics / Neve RNR1 Ribbon Mic
sE Electronics / Neve RN17 (Matched Pair)
AKG C414 XLS (2)
Audio Technica AT4033
Rode NT1-A (2)
Shure SM7b
Shure Beta 52
SM57 (4)
AKG C1000
sE Electronics SE4
M-Audio Nova
Samson C03

OTHER:
Behringer Powerplay 16 Cue System

SOFTWARE:
Cubase 12
Wavelab Pro 12
Universal Audio Plugins
Waves Plugins
McDSP Plugins
SSL Plugins
Native Instruments Plugins
Isotope Plugins and more

VST Instruments:
Native Instruments Komplete 10 Ultimate
Spectrasonics Omnisphere, Trilian & Stylus RMX (with expansion kits)
Steven Slate Drums (SSD4) with expansions
BFD2
Access Virus Indigo TDM

We also have a huge sound effects library for any sound design requirements.