Echostation Recording

A Place to Work AND Play

If you have the time, energy, resources, ability, AND space, you too can build your own recording studio. It’s a daunting task; tracking yourself AND performing can take the fun and focus out of the process. We have an 800 sq ft facility and have tracked and mixed a variety of artists over the years. It is focused on analog equipment and techniques – moving air with classic amplifiers and instruments – with the flexibility of digital editing.

Whether you are working on your first album or pre-producing your next major label release, let’s work together and see what we can come up with!

Why All of This Gear?

Echostation Recording is Brian Kelly’s basecamp for all things audio – both studio and touring, and provides the backbone for many of Rocktzar’s audio services.

With the advent of modern recording equipment and digital technology, lots of artists have been leaving behind the big expensive studios and working in smaller studios that their producer owns, or strike out to build their own studio. As a principal writer in the band Talking to Walls for many years, Brian developed a demo studio early on for making full-band demos. That led to moving and building it up into a fully-fledged recording facility that would work hand-in-hand with the bigger million dollar studios that the band was starting to work in.

As the band’s career advanced, and they worked in studios that their idols were working in just a day before, they retained some artistic freedom and finances by recording the majority of tracks at Echostation. 128 vocal tracks? Wall of guitars using the literal wall of amps? Easy! Creative choices could be made on the fly, and whatever vintage gear was needed but missing was easy enough to obtain.

The album that sparked the creation of Echostation ended up charting on college radio across North America, with songs placed in major ad campaigns…so things worked out pretty well. Since Brian’s retirement as a recording and touring artist, he has been working with other artists as a producer, as well as a live touring engineer.