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Sad Monkey Sound

Sad Monkey Sound is a one-room tracking and mix facility located in beautiful northern California.

01/29/2024

Continuing with the gear p**n, the N-Trophy console is WILD. Honestly too many cool things to list, but passive tube EQ and an optical compressor on every channel? Ridiculous in the best way.

01/28/2024

If you haven’t seen them yet, however compact you think the new is, I guarantee it’s smaller. The NAMM show floor isn’t exactly the best critical listening environment, but I left the booth thoroughly impressed with these things, and doubly so at their size and price point. They can’t quite hit the speed and agility of the MicroMains in the low end obviously, but they sound very familiar to me throughout their working range, and they’ve got me thinking about a pair for my office! Absolutely worth a look for smaller rooms working in rock or other less subby genres, or I expect for just about anything you want if you pair them with a decent sub.

01/26/2024

I am inside of you. It’s only been 20 minutes and is already gonna make me poor this year.

01/08/2024

Had to relocate the control room due to some upcoming construction, and it’s been weeks of various things being in and out of commission as things get brought in. Now that the JH24 is in, I’m finally done, and my spine is still mostly functional!

12/20/2023

Entering the last bit of this studio rebuild, and I’m currently VERY thankful for and their modular IO panel ecosystem. Making it much much easier (and more cost effective) for me to totally shift around how I’m handling some mic line routing…

12/14/2023

Nova is finally in the house, and it’s the f!@&ng business. 🤘🔥🤘🔥🤘🔥

10/14/2023

When one of your favorite pieces can take a mic stand mishap to the face and show absolutely zero signs of it, you know it’s good s**t. When it can do that AND it sounds this good, you know it’s AMAZING s**t. always delivers the sauce.

10/08/2023

Back in Pro Tools for at least a little while… For every one thing I remember I love, I remember two more that I hate. Has everybody who’s not bought into an ecosystem of some sort decided where we’re all going after this? Can we all just agree on Studio One so I can mostly just get to work, and focus my remaining complaint energy on the fact that their UI seems to insist on changing random things while I’m trying to scroll one of their stupid micro-UIs because EVERYTHING LISTENS TO MOUSE WHEEL? Also sorry Logic fans, I can’t abide its insistence on turning mono strips into implicit stereo ones at the drop of a hat - it’s cost me too many hours teaching musicians how to bounce tracks for the mix, and often enough failing, giving up, and then banging my head on the desk while figuring out what’s actually mono, what should be mono but isn’t, and what’s actually stereo.

09/27/2023

My new favorite overdrive on the board today… Sick As is

07/16/2023

Random appreciation post for my MCI JH-24… I love that you’re basically built entirely out of pinball machine parts and that pretty much every time you do something weird I just have to turn a screw a little bit and you’re back in action. Today was a brief adventure in tape shield brake adjustments… 😬💕🥁🎶

05/21/2023

Girls only want one thing, and it’s f! disgusting 😬

The V-Comp+ is an absolute monster on bass - locks it down, super fat tone, and gimme the drive switch all day every day. Check the website for stock at your own risk ⚠️

09/24/2022

LOVE my original Copperphone, so I’m super-duper stoked to have this new Carbonphone RU-80 in the house! is always killing it with these instant vibe machines ♥️🎙️🎶

07/01/2022

First of the new transport cards from arrived today! Fits like a dream, looks classy as hell, and works great. Can’t wait for the rest of the set!

05/07/2022

Much love to Chris and the rest of the crew for pushing these lovely old MCI machines into the future with new ideas and options. Their AL-II/III desktop is exactly what I wanted to both save space and keep my transport as conveniently located as possible - love being able to pop it up on my desk quickly! Can’t wait for their new transport cards to start shipping…

03/13/2022

I did a thing 😬

SUPER DUPER HAPPY to have this beautiful JH24 in the studio - it’s in amazing shape, and sounds killer after a calibration pass! We’re setup to use it for tape transfers, as a pre-process for digital tracks for client mixes, or for full tracking sessions to tape - hit me up if you’re in the Bay Area and want some especially analog vibes for your next project!

03/02/2022

New mixdown deck is in the house! This Studer reVox PR99 Mk. III is in great shape, and sounds just as nice! These weren’t the cleanest decks - they were broadcast staples, not studio mastering decks - but we’ve all got more “perfect” than we know what to do with these days, so a little bit wrong might just be a little bit right! 😅

Perfect for projects that want a bit of that vintage charm and sense of movement that a well-calibrated machine can provide. Still waiting on a rack to arrive, but she’s already putting in work! 🎶

02/07/2022

Taking some time in between gigs to explore some 90s-era sounds… Pardon my playing, they’re just scratch tracks 😅

11/28/2021

Had to add some additional IO to handle some new things on the way, and at this point my TOWER OF POWER (ft. special guest ) has grown almost comically strong.

11/10/2021

My new XL-305R arrived even quicker than expected, which was a surprise! What’s NOT a surprise (based on my previous Audioscape experiences) is that it sounds fantastic, and totally unique. It’s been in the rack less than 10 minutes, but it’s already being put to work! ❤️🎵

11/06/2021

I’m not usually an early-Christmas-decor kind of gal, but we’ll make an exception for the man himself!

10/09/2021

My office for the last few days, dual-tracking/editing the lovely onto at while the main session is run by and our awesome house engineer Clint. You can find me behind the patchbays, with my head just below a really nice pair of LA-3As.

After 2 days of aligning takes manually I think my hands will be subconsciously doing the motion for the enable/disable groups keyboard shortcut for a week or so…

10/03/2021

I’ve been working on resurrecting this poor abused Tascam 48 1/2” 8 track that I picked up as-is for cheap on Reverb for a couple of weeks now - it’s slow going, but we’re making progress! Transport’s running well now, and we’re on to channel card issues… Here’s hoping we can get it running smooth and sounding great so we can start doing cool things with it!

09/06/2021

Not a bad way to spend a long weekend! Thanks to Hairball Audio for putting together these great kits. They always sound fantastic, and go together incredibly smoothly - the fit and finish is top notch.

07/20/2021

It’s always a good day when new tube’y goodness shows up in the studio, and I’m absolutely in love with this gorgeous new optical compressor.

05/31/2021

Working on a couple things on the mobile setup, and taking advantage of my mom’s absolutely gorgeous Yamaha C7

03/06/2021

All the essential ingredients for a productive drum session...

10/01/2020

Currently working on my first project done entirely in from start to finish, now that it supports analog summing! Still some kinks to work out, but the combination of Luna’s excellent tape modeling and the Neve summing extension feeding into my analog outboard workflow (including the wonderful 5059) is truly special sounding! Can’t wait until I can move to Luna for everything, is killing it! 🎶❤️🤘

09/30/2020

Super excited to welcome a couple of fantastic new pieces to - the positively legendary API 2500 and the absolutely brilliant HA-609A from Heritage Audio. Our guitar, drum, and mix busses have never been happier 🎶❤️

07/11/2020

Super excited to have our here in the studio today! This is a VERY cool mic that creates a really wonderful AM radio/telephone effect that’s distinctly vibier than most “fake” versions I’ve heard, and distorts amazingly well too! Lots of production fun to be had with this piece... Huge thanks to Mark at Placid Audio for getting it out to me so quickly ❤️

07/01/2020

A couple more classics have moved into our little guitar alley here at ! Absolutely loving this 20W JCM800, and the Vox AC15 is brilliant as always...

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Redwood City, CA

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http://sadmonkeysound.com/

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