Studio at Plaid Dog Recording

Recording Studio · Whole venue

55 Pond Street, Boston, MA 02451
Bank Square, MA

About this space

Our studio was designed by Lou Clark of Sonic Space and built by Picker Construction. This team helped us create a beautiful, collaborative workspace. Plaid Dog features 3 isolated tracking rooms, including a live room with a 20ft high ceiling, perfect for getting lush, larger-than-life drum sounds. Our main iso booth has excellent line-of-sight to the live room for live tracking. Our two control rooms have been acoustically tuned for optimal, flat frequency response to create an ideal, reliable mixing environment.

Mics:
AKG D112 and 414
APEX 460 Tube Condenser
Audio Technica 3525 (2) and 4051 (pair) and Atm450
Cascade Fatheads (pair)
Electro Voice RE20
Radial JDI Passive DI (2) and J48 Active DI
Royer R121 Active Ribbon
Placid Audio Copperphone
Se Electronics RN17 (pair)
Seinhesser 421 (2)
Shure SM57 (4), Beta 52, 57, 87, SM7, SM81
Wunder C7 Tube Condenser (Neumann U47)

Amplifiers:
1966 Fender Bandmaster and 2×12 Matched Cab
Vox AC30/6TB
Orange Rockerverb and 2×12 Matched Cab
Ampeg SVT-VR and 4×10+1×15 Cab

Instruments:
1972 Rhodes MK1
1960’s Wurlitzer 140B
1962 Hammond M101 W/leslie
Vintage Magnus Electric Chord Organ
1925 Steinway 5’6″ Baby Grand
1978 Fender Precision Bass
Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar
Godin Dual Humbucker Electric Guitar
Sebring Dual Humbucker Semi-hollow Body Electric Guitar
Martin 00015m Acoustic Guitar
1972 Slingerland 4 Piece Drum Kit
1972 Ludwig Chrome Supraphonic Snare 5.5×14
Ludwig Black Beauty Snare 6.5×14
Paiste 13″ Dark Hi-hats and 20″ Prototype Ride
Sabian 18″ Crash
Sonorus Chromatic Glockenspiel
Miscellaneous Percussion

Outboard:
Chandler Limited TG Channel, TG-1 Limiter
DBX 165 Overeasy Compressor
Elysia Xpressor 500
Klark Teknik 410
Lexicon PCM91, PCM42
Yamaha SPXII
Purple Action (2) and Odd (2)
Requisite Audio L2M Mastering Limiter
Skibbe 736-5 Mic Pre (2)
Hairball Audio Lola Mic Pre (2)
Neve Portico 715 Mic Pre/Compressor
Tube Tech CL1B
Urei 530 Graphic Equalizer AND 7110 W/Output Transformer (2)

And more!


Prices

Sunday
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $80 hire fee per hour
Per hour
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $80 hire fee per hour
Per day
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $600 hire fee per day
Note: All prices include sales tax.
Monday
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $80 hire fee per hour
Per hour
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $80 hire fee per hour
Per day
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $600 hire fee per day
Note: All prices include sales tax.
Tuesday
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $80 hire fee per hour
Per hour
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $80 hire fee per hour
Per day
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $600 hire fee per day
Note: All prices include sales tax.
Wednesday
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $80 hire fee per hour
Per hour
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $80 hire fee per hour
Per day
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $600 hire fee per day
Note: All prices include sales tax.
Thursday
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $80 hire fee per hour
Per hour
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $80 hire fee per hour
Per day
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $600 hire fee per day
Note: All prices include sales tax.
Friday
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $80 hire fee per hour
Per hour
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $80 hire fee per hour
Per day
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $600 hire fee per day
Note: All prices include sales tax.
Saturday
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $80 hire fee per hour
Per hour
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $80 hire fee per hour
Per day
9:00 am – 12:00 am
from $600 hire fee per day
Note: All prices include sales tax.
Minimum booking duration: 2 hours

Capacity

Boardroom
up to 6

Catering and drinks

No in-house catering
External catering not allowed
Venue doesn’t provide alcohol
BYO alcohol not allowed

Facilities

PA system / speakers
Free on-street parking
Microphones
Amplifiers
Instruments
Outboard
Record/ Playback
Wi-Fi
Projector
Flatscreen TV
Whiteboard
Flipchart
Conference call facilities
Air conditioning
Natural light
Storage space
Quiet space
Accommodation available

Music & sound equipment

Own music allowed
Bring your own DJ
Noise restriction

Accessibility

Wheelchair accessible

Rules of the space

Allowed events

Promoted and ticketed events
Wedding licence
Temporary event notices (TENs) available

Host rules

Damage done to the studio or equipment will result in an extra charge.

Cancellation policy: Flexible with Grace Period

Show cancellation details

We help artists raise funds to record commercial albums at our studio in Boston, MA. Artists work with our team of producers and crowdfunding experts to ensure success while maintaining 100% ownership of their music. Travel costs and lodging are included.

We re-imagined how records are made.
Being a recording studio in Boston, we got tired of seeing artists struggle to fund their next record and decided things needed to change. With our team’s experience as producers, musicians, and marketers, we realized we could create a better way for artists to fund & record music.


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