Yellow Dog Studios

yellow DOG Studios is a multi-room recording studio complex in a former church in the historic district of San Marcos, Texas, about 30 miles from downtown Austin. According to the studio, it has worked on artist recordings and on music, ADR and Foley for film for 30 years, pairing analog consoles and tape with digital recording. It offers ensemble, orchestral and overdub recording along with editing, MIDI programming, mixing and mastering, and it houses a large collection of vintage and boutique instruments and amplifiers.

Studios

• Studio A: a 32-channel Trident 88 console with an Amek/Neve 9098i sidecar and a Sony/MCI JH24 2-inch 24-track tape machine linked to Pro Tools through an Endless Analog CLASP; a 1,472-square-foot live room with a 12-foot ceiling and three isolation rooms totaling 384 square feet.
• Studio B: a vintage Neve 5542 console and a 170-square-foot live room for overdubs; the studio also shoots its yellow DOG TV performance series here.
• Studio C: a dedicated mix room with an Otari MX-50/50 tape machine.
• Studio D: a mixing, overdub, pre-mastering and mastering room with Chandler/EMI Abbey Road summing and a modified Otari MTR-10 stereo tape machine.

Instruments

The keyboard collection includes a 1920 Baldwin Model H grand piano, a 1978 Kawai grand, a 1948 Hammond B3, a Hammond A100 with Leslie, Wurlitzer electric pianos, a Fender Rhodes, a Mellotron M4000D and a Farfisa organ, alongside vintage drums, guitars and amplifiers.

Clients

According to yellow DOG, its clients include Green Day, Garth Brooks, Bonnie Raitt, Kacey Musgraves, Gary Clark Jr., Colter Wall, Charley Crockett, Charles Bradley and Mike and the Moonpies.

Parking and lodging

The 5,000-square-foot building has room for several acts at once, with on-site parking for buses, vans and trailers, shore power and easy load-in. For visiting artists, the studio keeps a corporate account with a hotel two miles away and works with Airbnbs within five minutes of the building.