Electrical Audio
Founder: Steve Albini
Chief Engineers: Steve Albini, Greg Norman, Taylor Hales
Active Era: 1997 – Present
Designed with custom adobe brick walls, asymmetric non-parallel geometry, and massive floating concrete floors to maximize natural decay and drum resonance without flutter echo. Albini famously positioned stereo ambient boundary mics 15 feet high on the brick walls to capture the explosive, uncompressed drum room sound that defined hundreds of independent rock releases.
Two fully analog recording rooms (Studio A and Studio B) built inside an industrial building. Electrical Audio operates with vintage Neotek mixing consoles, Studer A820 2-inch 16-track analog tape machines, zero digital audio workstations in the tracking flow, and one of the finest collections of vintage European ribbon and condenser microphones in the world.
Landmark Records Tracked at Electrical Audio
Seminal albums recorded in this acoustic space