A recording studio owned and operated by musicians, for musicians, Motaland caters to the needs of the independent project, offering you professional music production and a high-tech recording studio at affordable rates. Motaland is a comfortable, relaxed place to bring your creations to life. Feel free to contact us with any questions you may have or make an appointment to visit the facility.

Why Motaland?

Our house engineers have over 20 years of combined recording experience, and have engineered, mixed, and/or mastered over 100 recordings. We're also working musicians who understand what it's like to be on the other side of the studio glass. We work hard to make sure your recording session is as comfortable and trouble-free as we can make it.

Clients

Recent Motaland clients include The Fabulous Boogienauts, Casket Crew, Low Gravity, Mega Blue Stalion, The Pitch Invasion, The Trade Ins.

The Studio

Unlike most home and project studios, our rooms were professionally designed by an acoustic engineer. This means that we're better able to hear and control the sounds you produce. It also means we get a far more accurate picture of your music at mix time, ensuring that you get the sounds you want.

The Control Room

Our control room was designed to put the focus on the speakers. It adds little color and has very low resonant frequencies. This room is equipped with all the essentials to produce a big, full sounding recording. We use the latest versions of Pro Tools and Cubase for tracking and mixing our projects. Pro Tools and Cubase are industry standards for cut & paste editing and automated mixing. The processing power is unmatched, and we have some of the best plug-ins available to give your mixes the professional sound we're all looking for.

The Live Room

Our live room is treated to strike an ideal balance between natural ambience and controlled focus. Drummers often tell us that they've never heard their kit sound so good as when it's set up in our live room. There are very few right angles in the room, so standing waves are kept to a minimum. Acoustic treatment on the walls improve the sound even more. Your friend may have a Pro Tools setup, but it's the quality of our live room that sets us apart and keeps our regular clients coming back.

The Vocal Booth

Our vocal booth is highly treated, and has almost no audible reverberation. This allows us to get a completely uncolored sound to disk, then treat it as best required for the song with appropriate reverb and other effects. The vocal booth can also double as an isolation booth for guitar cabinets or other amplified sources.

The Engineer

Bart McCrorey

Bart got his start recording over 12 years ago. He attended Los Angeles Recording Workshop in North Hollywood, CA and became certified in all aspects of audio recording including Solid State Logic consoles and Pro Tools operation. In addition to recording at Motaland, Bart is a professional musician and plays guitar & bass and sings in several local bands including Throttlebomb, Frontside Five, Valiomierda and The Pitch Invasion.

Console

NOTE! This list needs update

(1) Yamaha DM 1000 Digital Console

(1) Midas Verona 480 Analog Console

(1) Mackie 24x8

Outboard

Preamps

(1) API 512c

(1) Universal Audio 2108 preamp, 2 ch

(1) Sytek MPX-4A preamp, 4 ch

(2) dbx 386 preamp, 2 ch

(1) dbx 376 preamp/eq/comp, 1 ch

(2) Focusrite TwinTrack Pro, 2 ch

Other

(1) Red Box instrument DI, 1 ch

(1) Lexicon PCM 60

(1)Lexicon PCM 80

(1) Ensoniq DP-2 multi-fx

Instruments and Amplification

Instruments and amps are not guaranteed to be available. Please request any gear you would like to have available for your session.

(1) Marshall 1978 JMP 50-watt

(1) Marshall 1936 2x12 cab w/Celestions

(1) Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier 100-watt head

(1) Ampeg 800 watt bass head

(1) Eden Navigator bass preamp

(1) Ampeg 8x10 bass cab

(1) Gallien-Kruger 8x10 bass cab

(1) Hartke 2x10x15 w/horn bass cab

(1) Ampeg BXT-410HL4 4x10 bass cab

(1) SansAmp Bass Driver DI

(1) SansAmp RBI bass DI

Large assortment of effects

Monitors

(2) Alesis Monitor One

(2) KRK V8 Series 2

(1) KRK subwoofer

(2) Yamaha HS50m

(1) Coleman M3PH monitor switcher

Software

Pro Tools 9

Cubase 4.5

Waves platinum Bundle 6

Waves SSL 4000

McDSP Emerald Pack

Massey plugin bundle

URS A-series EQ

T-RackS suite

SoundToys Native Bundle

Antares AutoTune 7

Sonic Studio Premaster CD 3

Mics

Condensers

(1) AKG C-3000

(2) AKG C-419/c

(1) AKG 2500

(4) AT 4033

(2) AT 4041

(1) Langevin CR-2001

(4) Oktava MK-012

(2) Rode NT-1000

(2) Shure SM-81

Dynamics

(2) AKG D-112

(2) Audix D6

(1) Beyer M201

(1) EV RE-20

(1) Sennheiser E-609

(1) Shure Beta 52

(10) Shure SM-57

(1) Shure SM-7