Same Sky Productions

Same Sky Productions is a 3,000-square-foot recording studio in East Austin, Texas, whose team has been recording music since the turn of the century. The facility includes a control room, live room, iso booth, lounge, kitchen, conference room and a crash pad for touring musicians. According to Same Sky, the studio has worked with Vulfpeck, Kacey Musgraves, Wyclef Jean, Hanson, BJ the Chicago Kid and Valient Thorr, and has been featured in Billboard and Pitchfork.

Rooms and instruments

• Control room: Pro Tools Ultimate with an Avid S3 control surface, a TEAC 3300 tape machine, API 3124+ and Vintech preamps, and Genelec, JBL, Yamaha NS-10 and Focal monitors.
• Live room: a Baldwin L-series grand piano, a Hammond C3 with a Leslie 147, a vintage Wurlitzer electric piano, a 1970s Slingerland kit and a Pork Pie kit.
• Iso booth: an isolation booth for vocals and amps. The control room and patch bay have expansion channels so visiting artists can integrate their own gear.

Gear highlights

Same Sky’s amps include a custom Soldano head built for and owned by Lou Reed, a vintage Ampeg B-15, and Marshall and Bad Cat amps. Microphones include a 1959 Sony C37a, a Neumann M147 tube mic, six vintage Neumann KM 85i and an RCA 77 ribbon.

Services and events

Same Sky offers producing, engineering, and mixing of home-recorded tracks. The studio doubles as an event space rented by the day for in-studio concerts, listening parties, livestreams, presentations and video shoots, and it has hosted album listening sessions with engineers Tim Palmer and Chris Shaw. Tours are by appointment.