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Hey folks - we're so very pleased to finally be booking sessions in Studio A!

At long last, we’re looking forward to introducing you to the new 2800 square feet of our main recording room.

Q’s Neve 8068 is spic and span - inside and out (more of the restoration story soon), and we have a big - currently lonely- live room that’s waiting to be filled with you. The performance studio includes a large high-ceiling central space, a sizable live isolation room (we’re calling it The Drum Room), and a very dead room we’re calling The Piano Room. We’ve prioritized sight lines between all these rooms and also into the control room. There are two additional small isolation booths for amps, and an area we’re calling “The Inspiration Wall” which we find visually and acoustically… um… inspiring.

So give us a call - after almost two years of working on this space - we’re looking forward to hearing you in it!

FAQ’s:

When?

We’re now booking sessions starting from April 15th and beyond.

Where?

171 Rindge Ave. in Cambridge MA. It's behind 169 Rindge and across from the Reservoir Church.

Parking?

You can reach us easily from three MBTA stops - Porter Square, Davis Square, and Alewife. We have limited parking in our driveway for artists, and there’s a bit of guest/non-permit parking in the neighborhood. More details on our website.

How Much?

We’ve built a brand new facility and put an incredible amount of effort into restoring the Neve, and well - the world’s come a long way since 1986 - so our rates have gone up. BUT - while we’re still building Studio B, we’re offering an introductory rate. Check in with Ed or any of us via email or phone for all the details.

Will brought in a gang of ace musicians to help flesh out his new album. They learned the songs and recorded them all together in the room - just how we imagined the space being utilized. Not only did these guys track all their parts live, they ALSO live-streamed the sessions a couple of times a day, giving fans a chance to hang in the room as tape rolled!

Alongside his long time collaborator and all around musician extraordinaire Dave Brophy, Will brought James Rohr, Ken Clark, Jeremey Moses Curtis, Andrew Stern, Cody Nilsen, Joe McMahon, Ed V, and of course Dave's studio assistant, Coco the Chill. Our very own James Bridges engineered, and Rafi Sofer took some pictures and set up the live streams. Videographer Chris DeSanty was also taping the sessions for a future video documentary on the production of the album.

Will was kind enough to commit to working in the space before we were done - in fact hosting him allowed us to learn A LOT about the room and some of the issues we still have to sort through, before we open our doors to the general public on APRIL 15!

These three fantastic musicians came in for a weekend session and recorded original pieces and some reimagined material from the folk songbook.

We finally got a band into Studio A to hear it and test it out. Eric Salt and Electric City are long time Q Friends, so we were super comfortable and happy to have them help us break in the room.

We think the room sounds really cool, and of course we found some bugs (well duh). I (Rafi) took some pictures of the guys while they were playing, and Chuck Hargreaves and I both moved mics and engineered. After over a year and a half of building and restoring the Neve it was nice to use the room as we designed it!

Check out the pictures... The sounds - well, that might take a minute to finish.

Hey friends! We put away the soldering irons and the construction equipment at the end of December, to show off where we're at right now, as 2022 came to a close. Check out the progress - we're still a few steps away from recording, but we're so close you can almost smell the new tape coming out of the boxes.

Before we moved out of our Highland Ave location, our last big session was a more-than-month-long-lockout hosting the cast and crew of Spirited - at the time referred to as Chili. It was super awesome and fun and tons and tons of work (we also set them up with rehearsal and pre pro spaces at their production headquarters in Braintree), and now we get to hear some of our efforts on the big screen this coming December.
Spirited — Official Teaser | Apple TV+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG8O0bj4isg

Hey folks - progress on the new studios is slow but steady!

The common areas - lounge, kitchen, bathrooms, driveway, and exteriors are all very close to being done. This means we can start setting up storage spaces, tech and machine rooms, and very soon, the lounge spaces and kitchen!

Keep reading below about some of the other work we've done.

Studio A's control room has really come a long way - we've had the Neve in there for a while, and we're carefully setting up and trouble shooting the console. We are in the final stages of our epic restoration project - folks who are curious will able to read all about that in the near future.

Wiring the new spaces is a massive project, but we've run most of the audio, speaker, and ethernet lines to the performance spaces and machine rooms. As finishes and treatments are completed and installed in the live room, we'll be able to finish up some of that work.

We'd love to give you a solid date for our reopening, but we're sticking with - SOON!

Hey friends!

Check it out - our new rooms have new floors - and this means the next stage of construction really and truly is underway! Lou Clark and Eric Pearce are onsite, building and installing room treatments, indicating that we’re finally more than half way there. We can see the beginning of the end of this long process! When will we be ready to open our doors? That’s a great question, and it’s been a moving target.  We’re following the “don’t book your record release until you’ve got the vinyl from the pressing plant” rule and not saying until we know we can do it- you’ll just have to keep reading our updates. 

We’ve also been very hard at work refurbishing our Neve, from recapping to re-screening faceplates and many many stops in between, our Neve 8068 will be readier than ever to capture great performances in our new spaces. We can’t wait to share our new rooms with you. 

Stay tuned!

Best from all of us at Q.