Description: Violet Crown Recording is a new, cutting edge audio recording studio in the Westlake area of Austin, Texas
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Violet Crown Recording is a new, state-of-the-art recording studio 10 minutes from downtown Austin. It is housed at the Westlake Hills compound of owner/engineer Kyle Lawson. That's me!
I designed the studio to be comfortable, clean and relaxed, with the best equipment and great-sounding rooms. There are two main tracking rooms. The Live Room is visible through the control room window. It is large, has very high ceilings and a sweet, controlled room sound. The Dead Room is an acoustically dead space that is remarkable for its large size. Each of these tracking rooms can send up to 15 inputs to the Control Room. The Control Room was designed for accurate sound monitoring, comfort and ease o
Instead of using a big, expensive mixing console, I opted to spend money on high-end preamps and compressors. I use my patch bay for any routing that is necessary and mix in the box with a mouse, keyboard and iPad for control surfaces. I love it! I've used mixing consoles in the past, but I prefer this new way of working.