Magic in a recording studio is the aggregate of thousands of good decisions. Great composition, great arrangement, clean preamps and converters, the right microphones and mic technique, a great room and, hopefully, a great engineer, are all essential to a magical recording.

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First Wave Recording Studios has no interest in snake oil. We have a variety of mics that are all purpose built and deployed to get the most out of any instrument, voice, and sound. Our main monitors, Genelec 8351's, are tuned (near) perfectly with our acoustically treated rooms. For the tech gurus: we record 24 bit, 96 kHz WAV files. For the acousticians: we have custom built absorbers made from Rockwool. All of these choices allow us to manipulate everything from violin concertos to rock ballads in a very precise, beautiful manner.