THE DOOR STUDIOS: Great Gear & Flexible pricing (day rates/half day rates)

ALL GENRES WELCOME: ROCK, INDIE, PUNK, EMO, POP, HARDCORE, ACOUSTIC, FOLK, JAZZ, CLASSICAL, WORSHIP, Etc.

The Team

JOEL FRUTH - producer/engineer (The Door Soundman/Production Manager)
GARTH ORR - producer/engineer (The Door FW Soundman)

Become another satisfied customer just like:

ANYDAY, ETHAN DURELLE, THE BACKGROUND, ALLISON ELBAOR, AUDACITY,
THE EASY CROWD, OLD SCHOOL DEMI, SAVING SARA, THE HIGH LIFE, the WAITING ROOM(now OCEAN’S FIRING), DAYS OLD DREAM, AARON LONG, WEAK THE MIGHTY, LOOK AWAY, HAMSTERBALL, JOSH HENSLEY, BOB RANDALL…on and on and on……

About the Studio

Many rooms/hallways throughout the facility, small and large – can get lots of cool, unique, natural sounds. Our main tracking room has a soft .5 second reverb decay, wood floors, if you want that large roomy sound. great for drums and choirs and string ensembles.

Track your Door show live!! Split snake feeds from The Door main stage or The Prophet Bar stage.

Our gear list isn’t huge, but what we have – we like. We don’t use stuff we don’t want to use. There is no “second string” gear in our studio, plus you can’t beat our rooms – huge sounds!!

Outboard Gear:
-Avalon VT-737-SM Mercenary Edition tube mic pre
-Milennia Media HV3 mic pre
-Milennia Media TD1 twin topology di (tube or solid state with both current reamp modes and speaker soak)
-Mackie 32 channel 8-buss board
-fast PC running Nuendo4 with tons of plugins
-Mackie hr824 monitors
-Sony, AKG, Sennheiser and Audio Technica headphones
-Dbx 263 de-esser
-Symetrix 501 compression (old school analog compression)

Mics:
-adk TC (tube mics)
-earthworks SR69
-beyer dynamic MC833 stereo mics (xy or ms, variable width)
-audio technica 4047 FET
-audix D4, D3, D2
-shure sm57, 58, beta 52
-sennheiser e604
-e/v 308b
-mxl v63m’s
-mxl mics
-alesis/groove tubes am11 FET
-octava MC012
many more…

Click on links below to hear bands recorded at The Door Studios

www.myspace.com/allisonelbaor
www.myspace.com/daysolddream
www.myspace.com/thebackground
www.myspace.com/oldschooldemi

Testimonials

“Thanks man, it wouldn’t have sounded great if it wasn’t for your awesome skills! you made it comfortable and fun, and that made it so much easier to get it done right. seriously, we loved it…if we could find the money, we’d come back out and do three more…or maybe even more than that…but we’re broke homies.

As far as mix changes go, i personally don’t know of much…i think clint had a couple things…i’ll try to pull a list together…if there’s anything, it’s not much…it sounds awesome already. i’ll get you a list by monday…like i said, we probably won’t have anything that you haven’t already changed…so we’re probably pretty good. can’t wait for the final copies! woo!”

Jon from Anyday: www.myspace.com/anyday

“Joel is extremely easy to work in all aspects of recording. He is patient and flexible with all ideas offered and also won’t hesitate to add input as well. He helped us nail the sounds we were looking for within the budget and time space allotted. We are very pleased with the outcome of the project. Professional quality at an affordable price is hard to come by these days…and finding someone that has the experience and know-how that Joel has is rare to find in the D/FW area…especially considering the price. Anyone looking for great quality at a logical price rate should check out The Door Recording Studios.”

Shaun and Drew from The Background: www.myspace.com/thebackground

“Damn Garth, that sounded badass. I am extremely impressed with track 2. I love the tone you put on my bass man. So hard and funky and dirty. I love the vocal effects. I love that whisper on ‘my wings’. I love everything about that song. You did an excellent job. I’m gonna send it in to the local show on 102.1. I doubt it’ll get played, but I’ll let you know if it does. It has the quality musically speaking to be on the radio. They all have the recording quality to be on the radio. Thanks so much Garth. You did an excellent job.”

Tim from Audacity: www.myspace.com/audacityinarlington