The Recovery Room Studio
The Recovery Room was founded by Graig Markel as a place to escape and recover from daily life. A place where creativity could thrive. Over the years the studio has provided quality and affordable recording to Seattle's independent music community.
The Recovery Room is located in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. There is plenty of parking available and it's easy to load and unload gear. We are within walking distance of Chuck's Hop Shop, Preserve and Gather, Alebrijes Kitchen, and we are just a 10-minute drive from the beaches of Puget Sound!
Inside you’ll find a small live room with wood-covered walls and a comfortable control room. You’ll also find Universal Audio, Forcusrite preamps, Drawmer compressors, guitars, amps, effects, and a collection of high-end and vintage microphones. We're obsessed with audio gear so the equipment list is always growing!
Past projects include: The Grizzled Mighty, Thunderpussy, Transmissionary Six, Barton Carroll, Motopony, The Spits, The Girls, Zera Marvel, The Animals at Night, Band of Horses (mastering), Nada Surf (post-production vinyl), Terri Tarantula, Brent Amaker and the Rodeo, The Walkabouts, Fox and the Law, I Will Keep Your Ghost, and a growing number of television audio / post-production projects.
The Recovery Room is $600 / day including Graig Markel as an engineer. Please contact us if you’d like to book time.
Kristin Hersh recorded live in the Recovery Room.
Projects:
Brent Amaker and The Rodeo
The Grizzled Mighty
Thunderpussy
Motopony
The Spits
Band Of Horses (Mastering)
Kristin Hersh (Recorded live in the Recovery Room)
Chase Jarvis "Songs For Eating and Drinking" series including Macklemore, Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam, Tiny Vipers, Arthur and Yu, Dime Def, Common Market, Fatal Luciano and more.
A-Frames
Barton Carroll
Jon Auer (The Posies)
Jim Carroll (Mastering)
Truly
The Animals At Night
Nada Surf (Vinyl Mastering)
Dead Ship Sailing
"Sing For Your Supper" series including Shawn Smith, Andy Werth, Robert Deeble, Barbara Trentalange, and more.
Eat Sugar (Remix) (REMIX)
Velella Velella (Remix)
The Walkabouts
And many more...
Equipment:
Mac-based recording using Pro Tools 10, capable of 30 plus tracks at 24bit, 96kHz using an Allen and Heath ZED R16 console/interface. Tascam 38 1/2” 8 track for tracking, or creative analog sculpting, Otari MTR-10 1/4” 2 track for analog mixing. Mackie Onyx Satellite for remote recording.
Mic Preamps / Dynamics / Effects:
Universal Audio M610 preamp (X3)
Universal Audio LA 610 preamp/compressor
Focusrite Saphire Pro 10
Recovery Effects Lights on the Way Out Tube Pre
Universal Audio UAD-2 Satellite (with tons of plugins)
Drawmer Dual Auto Compressor / Gate (2 channels)
Roland Space Echo RE 201
Fostex 3180 Spring Reverb
Earthquaker Devices Ghost Echo reverb
Moogerfooger Low Pass Filter
Moogerfooger Murf
Electro-Harmonix Memory Man
Recovery Dirty Murals echo
Recovery “Transcripter” Chorus (1 of 5 made)
Behringer Virtualizer Pro multi-effects rack unit
ZVex Lo-Fi Loop Junky
Line 6 Pod Pro rackmount
Line 6 Pod 2.0
Spaceman Saturn 5 Harmonic Booster
Spaceman Alien Fuzz Communicator
Recovery Effects Sound Destruction Device
Recovery Effects Couple Skate octave fuzz
Recovery Effects Bad Comrade
Electro-Harmonix Big Muff (ram’s head)
Death by Audio Robot
Digitech Whammy
Earthquaker Devices Organizer
Microphones:
Neumann TLM 103 condenser
Samson C1 Condenser (x2)
PPA R1 ribbon
Vintage Calrad VM12 ribbon (Japanese RCA 77)
Senheiser 421 (x2)
Shure Beta 52
Shure Beta 58
Shure 57 (x4)
ElectroVoice 664 vintage dynamic (x3)
Recovery ExMic crystal
Vintage Astatic crystal
Vintage Bell crystal
Vintage Electro-Voice 924 crystal
Monitors:
Yamaha HS80M
Keyboards:
Arturia “the Player” controller, and Recovery USB controller for use with our keyboard workstation including Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Reason 4, Arturia Analog Experience, and much more…
1911 Stuyvesant upright piano (serviced and tuned March 2011)
Rhodes Mark II 88 key electric piano
Moog ‘Lil Phatty with USB over MIDI
Crumar Spirit (analog mono synth, made by Moog, rare prototype of only 100 in existence- serviced by Condor in 2006)
Vintage Optigan “Conquistador” with many sample discs
Roland Juno 60 (analog poly, pre-midi, “wood”-panel sides)
Casio SK1 primitive sampling synth – one of my faves
Pigtronix Mothership Analog Synthesizer
Korg Monotron (Korg MS-20 filter)
Korg Monotribe (Korg MS-20 filter with drum machine)
Vintage Boss DR-110 analog drum machine
Vintage Maestro Rhythm King drum machine
Vintage Univox JR5 drum machine
Guitars:
Fender Jaguar (2004 1962 re-issue, made in U.S.A.)
Fender Telecaster (1997, made in U.S.A.)
Gibson ES135 hollowbody (1998)
Gibson Melody Maker (2011)
De’Armond Starfire hollowbody (2001)
Fender Deluxe Jazz Bass (2007, made in U.S.A.)
Danelectro Bass (good late 90′s re-issue)
Gibson J45 acoustic (2006)
Gibson L200 acoustic (2006)
Vintage Gibson C-1 acoustic (1957, Kalamazoo U.S.A.)
Vintage Airline N2 archtop / acoustic (1960s)
Epiphone J200 acoustic (2004)
Epiphone Les Paul Standard (1995)
Gibson Lap Steel (1947)
Rickenbacher Lap Steel “Panda” with original horseshoe pickup (1946 – Yes, Rickenbacher, before they changed the spelling in 1949)
Amplifiers:
Divided by 13 JRT 9/15 1x12” combo
Fender Deluxe Reverb 1×12″ (22 watts, 1965 blackface re-issue)
Vox AC15 1 x 12″ combo
Fender Champ (1974)
Fender Champ (1973)
Ampeg SVT bass head with 4×10 cab
Drums:
Yamama Custom Birch 5 piece
Misc:
Meisel 4/4 Cello
Bells, whistles, random percussion stuff, coffee, tea, sugar, spice, and everything nice.