Mobtown Studios is an artist-friendly recording and mastering studio owned and operated by Mat and Emily Leffler-Schulman.
We moved the studio from Washington, DC to downtown Baltimore in 2006 with the intention of providing a warm living room environment in which local artists and bands could record affordably and comfortably. In April 2008, construction was finally complete and we opened our doors to the Baltimore music and recording community.
The studio is located in a light-filled 1890s rowhouse in Baltimore’s historic Charles Village neighborhood, near Penn Station and the Station North Arts District. Our 1000 square foot facility was masterfully planned by acoustical engineer Julien Robilliard and employs a variety of innovative and modular acoustical treatments to mold your sound.
Mobtown occupies a niche between the sterility and prohibitive costs of large commercial studios and the limited flexibility often found in home studios. (While we firmly believe that amazing things can happen in a basement with a laptop, nothing can replace a finely tuned room run by an engineer with a trained ear when you want the experience and sound of a professional studio.)
We offer an organic mix of vintage and modern in both our gear and our approach. We believe that the war between analog and digital is a bogus one in an industry that is continuously evolving. Each has its place and Mobtown bridges the gap as a hybrid studio.
We also love to find new possibilities in unconventional instruments. Whether it’s an African xylophone, a Quaker oatmeal box or a century-old pump organ, if it can make noise, it can make music.
