There are many "recording studios" out there that are nothing more than a guy with a computer and some pirated recording software. While these "recording studios" offer very low prices, the end result usually sounds like it was recorded in some guy's living room (it probably was!). Even at their low rates, usually recording at these "studios" is just as expensive as buying a computer recording interface and recording your music yourself. So why bother with recording studios at all?

The most overlooked feature of a recording studio is the studio itself. The room you track in is vital to the recording process. If you record in someone's garage, it will sound like you are playing in a garage. If your vocals are tracked in a bathroom, they'll sound very hollow and empty. The "clean" sound you hear on the radio is the sound of the room those musicians are performing in. About 95% of your favorite records were most likely recorded in a professional studio where the musician's could play together "live", while each instrument was located in it's own tuned and isolated room. It's this isolation of each instrument that allows the engineer to build a clean mix, yet with this isolation the band must still be able to record together, otherwise the performance itself may become isolated and disjointed.

Timeline85 is located in a leased business suite near highway 880. It is not someone's basement (Timeline85 is "piggybacked" off of our sister studio, 510 Studios). The control room is an actual room dedicated to recording and mixing music. The live/tracking room measures a spacious 20'x18' with 20 foot ceilings, and all walls have been acoustically treated to sound best when recording drums, vocals, and other acoustic instruments. Attached to the live/tracking room are two small isolation rooms, perfect for tracking tight vocals (excellent for hip-hop and voiceovers) as well as guitar/bass amps.