EV PRODUCTIONS STUDIO

EV Productions, Inc. is a recording studio and record label located in Evanston, Illinois just north of Chicago. We offer a comfortable and mellow environment to accomplish a wide variety of projects, including the music that we record, mix, and master for our own label and the labels we work with. From commercial voice-over to hip-hop, our network of professional engineers, producers, artists, and musicians will satisfy any client or budget.

Studio Description

The studio represents six months of painstaking design and build-out. The nine-inch-thick studio walls are de-coupled from floors floating on rubber pucks to ensure sonic isolation, and each room is acoustically varied for maximum recording flexibility.

Live Room

The Live Room is the largest in the studio, capable of accommodating an entire band or group. With approximately 30% of the walls acoustically treated, the room offers a pleasing, natural sound and the ability to shoot video with a permanently installed back-drop and blue screen.

Isolation Booth

Perfect for rap vocals, isolating an amp, or critical voice-over, the booth at EV Productions was carefully designed to allow views into the other rooms without sacrificing sound quality.

Dead Room

Approximately 60% of the walls and ceiling are treated with high-quality absorbent sound tiles to create an acoustically dead room. Drums sound punchy and tight, and because the room adds no natural reverb, it is an ideal space for recording when processing and effects will be used.

Control Room

The Control Room is designed to comfortably accommodate seven or eight people on leather couches, and features a ‘producer’s desk’ with its own patch-bay. The room is heavily treated with absorption, diffusion, and baffles to achieve reference sound quality and highly translatable mixes.

Equipment List

Console

Trident Series 24

AD/DA Converters

MOTU 1228
MOTU 1224

Monitors

Mackie HR824
Yamaha NS-10M Studio

Tube Preamps

Summit Audio MPC-100A
DBX 586 Dual Channel

Outboard Gear

Behringer Autocom Dual Channel Compressor
DBX Project 1 Dual Channel Compressor
DBX 160X Compressor
Alesis Midiverb III Reverb
Quad Channel DOD Noise Gates
DBX 2231 31 Band EQ/Limiter

CD/Tape/Turntables

Gemini CD-110 CD Player
Tascam 202 MKIII Dual Cassette Deck
Sony A6 DAT Deck
Panasonic SV-3800 DAT Deck
Tascam 34B 4-Track Reel
Alesis ADAT xt
Technics SL-1200 Turntable

Microphones

Rode NT2
Sure KSM32
Sure SM57
Sure SM58
Sure SM81
Sure Beta 98
AKG C1000S
AKG D112
Audio Technica AT3525
Audix D2
Audix D4
Sennheiser ME66/ME67

Directions from 94 and Chicago

From I-94 (Edens Expressway), exit at Dempster st. and head West until you reach Dodge Ave. in Evanston; take a left and proceed to Lake St. Turn right on Lake and then left on Ashland; we are the second unit from the corner.

From Chicago, take either Western or Ridge into Evanston; at Lake St. take a left, and then right on Ashland. We are the second unit from the corner of Lake and Ashland.