Make Sonic Ranch your inspiring, all inclusive recording destination.
With beautiful Neve and API consoles, along with extraordinary vintage microphones and vintage guitars, inspiration abounds.​
Abdiel and Maribel will gather your belongings, and drive you to your arrival at Sonic Ranch, where beautiful bedrooms and bungalows await your arrival
from there, we can have a beautiful breakfast lunch or dinner or go directly to a tour of all of the studios.
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The Knights of the Round Table dinning room, includes a DJ style vinyl collection. B&W Speakers ands a one of two hand-crafted, tube amplifier that sounds amazing.
Parts of the historic hacienda date back to the early 30's. The BBQ and cozy swimming pool add a recreational area in which to lounge.
Exiting the patio going South towards Mexico, brings you to the original A Studio. Entering the A Studio we have a 1927 Steinway piano along with Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall, and Miró Lithographs. Descending the stairs to the subterranean A Studio reveals one of the 3 fully automated API Legacy Plus consoles in existence.
Vintage guitar amp collection is one of the most comprehensive in the world.
The Stone room has amazing versatility depending on the dampening, it can go from John Bonham to Ringo.
This Ludwig Vintage Blue Oyster drum kit is very Ringoess
The versatility of this "Back Room" drum room is extraordinary, something to be experienced.
This 8088 Vintage Neve console is the largest in the world. The left hand side of the console was the original Motown Board. It then resided in Madonna's studio Brooklyn before Yoshiki who was the Beatles of Japan purchased the console and it arrived at Sonic Ranch in 2005
The magnificent Neve tracking room is very adjustable with its ability to configure multiple acoustics scenarios within this large, beautiful space.
The big tracking room works excellent for live sessions with an additional two isolation booths, aside from the two in the control room.
Ambiance in this room can be modified with large doors along the walls that reflect when closed and absorb when opened.
These extraordinary pianos are a work of art
This is a reverse angle towards the very large control room window, with the oriental rugs that can be configured to taste.
The backroom features Salvador Dalí lithographs from the Casanova Series.
You can see through this Vincent Van-Hoff difussion wall to the control room all the way through the large tracking room
This room is very flexible in all of the different soundscapes depending on the positioning in the room and vintage rugs.
The Adobe Studio structure was built over a hundred years ago. It was converted from a blacksmiths shop, to a studio in 2007. This is another of the Vincent Van Hoff collaborations as Vincent brought extraordinary magic to everything he did.
This extraordinary 8078 Neve console belonged to Sylvia Massy and was acquired from Mad Dog Studios in Los Angeles from Dusty Wakeman. This is the best 8078 in existence.
We have tie-lines running from the control room to the Echo house which contains four individual iso-rooms that sometimes double for bedrooms
The beautiful tracking room has extraordinary diffusion panels and a Vincent Van Hoff held hole resonator diffusion wall. The sound is amazing.
Part of the collection of our vintage Tweed Amplifiers resides in the Adobe tracking room along with a vintage Fender Leslie.
There is a vintage B3 organ with a 147 Leslie that also resides in the Adobe tracking room, along with a Marc Chagall original lithograph.
The Big Blue Control Room features an extraordinary one-of-a-kind Neve 8048, which Daft Punk mixed their last album on at Ocean Studios Burbank.
This console is equipped with forty 1081 modules, four 2254 compressors, and flying faders to accommodate extensive mix-down sessions.
The spacious control room allows for a comfortable and inspiring work flow
The outboard gear in the Big Blue Control Room is extensive and outfitted with extraordinary and unique vintage and modern pieces that will elevate mixing and tracking sessions.
Sonic Ranch has an extraordinary collection of vintage amplifiers and guitars. Featured here are some Tweed, Marshal, Vox, Komet and Black Faced amplifiers with a '61 Les Paul, '75 Jerry Finn Telecaster, and a '61 Esquire that belonged to Stevie Ray Vaughn
These are some beautiful birds-eye view shots from the 20 foot scaffolding.
This picture allows you to see all the way through to what used to be the horse pastures
This panoramic view is awesome!
The Big Blue tracking room is a ____ , _____ , _______ . Every part of this room sounds amazing.
There is a myriad of realities that can be set up in all of the different areas of this magnificent room. This photograph features the Vincent Van Haff held hole Resonator diffusion ceiling.
This shot is the reverse angle, looking towards the control room and the beautiful Yamaha C3
This specific Yamaha C3 piano is out of this world. Also in this picture, is an early '61 B3 and a CP80 that is one of the best of its kind.
This is another example of the beautiful B3 and CP-80
Sonic Ranch has an amazing piano collection that Robbie Laskowske takes care of on a regular basis.
These 600 year-old pillars came from India. This baffle configuration allows for a tight and controlled sound
The back of the Big Blue Tracking Room is extraordinary for drum tracking and can accommodate multiple setups. This room also faces the Rio Grande, beautiful mountains, orchards, and breathtaking sunsets.
The Mayan booth features artisanal fabrics from Yucatan. The extraordinary microphones featured in this room, from left to right: Neumann 269, RCA 44, ELAM 251, Telefunken U47 Chrome Top, AKG C12, Neumann U47, Neumann U67, and Neumann M249.
The extraordinary basses from left to right are the Hofner, '65 Jazz Bass; which belonged to Tim Lefebvre, a '66 P-Bass, a '62 Jazz Bass, a '66 Jazz Bass, and a '78 P-Bass which belonged to Paco, from Molotov. There is also an Ampeg B15 and an Ampeg '63 Blue Face head atop an 8x10 cabinet.
This Redwood Booth contains a 61' Les Paul SG, a 69' Purple Plexi, a 51' Fender Deluxe, a Fender 62' Showman Amp, and a 64' Super Reverb Amp.
The Chagall booth, accommodates a wide variety of drum kits. This '78 Blue Gretch "Stop Sign Badge" is featured in this picture.
The Adobe Bungalow is one of several 100-year-old buildings that have been transformed into a cozy and magical space. This room is well suited for many tasks, whether that's mixing in-the-box, recording vocals, songwriting, or any other kind of production work. In this shot, there is a Fender Harvard Amp, a '67 Gibson 335 twelve-string, hardwired Vox AC-30 head and vintage 2x13 Vox cab, and to the right a '65 Gibson Hummingbird.
Justin Vernon did his vocals in this room for the i,i album. Miguel also recorded "Number 9" in this room. This room works beautifully for solo vocals and editing.
The Mix Room features an exceptional 64 channel, SSL G+ desk with 24 E series EQ's running at the original 240 volts as they were intended for. This Vincent Van Haaff designed control room sounds great.​
Sonic Ranch now features three beautiful dinning rooms in the main Hacienda. There are also beautiful dinning rooms in the Condor House and the rustic Garcia House.
The Formal Dining Room, features accommodations for up to 16 people
The beautiful and rustic Knights of the Round Table dinning room features B&W 802 speakers, a one of a kind hand made power amplifier and a turn table to enjoy our extensive vinyl collection.
The amazing cybex NX machines protect your range of motion to keep you healthy and avoid injuries.
This facility features beautiful aesthetics with 80 year-old vintage rugs and lithographs from Paris.
Additional amenities feature an extraordinary Ping Pong table and two saunas one of which is a modern red light sauna and the other which is a traditional steam sauna.
The beautiful fabrics throughout the building are also an part of the acoustic design.
Among the recreational elements at Sonic Ranch we have an extraordinary pool table. In the background there is a Studer A27, we have three of these that are available for tape sessions when the artist want to go all analog.
The heavy bag in the corner was used by George of Cannibal Corpse
This is a picture coming into the Hacienda patio.
In the far corner of the patio is a BBQ and grilling area.
The BBQ and Grilling area allow people to enjoy their down-time, day or night.
The swimming pool allows people to cool down.
STUDIO SPACES
