Bands that have played here, or will soon (cause I don’t want to update this all the time):
A King’s Queen’s Jack
Arts and Sciences
Benedict Arnold
Butt Nugget
Dead City Dregs
Deep Roots
Demallion
Disturbing Lou
Don’t Mess with Winkie
Enemy of One
Everest
Five Second Rule
Forever Abandoned
Godfodder
Hatches
Hood Kicks
How To Steat And Cheal
I Heart Dave
Kids on Fire
Las Contras
Leaking Africa
Marlow Honey
Mechanical Anatomy
Meth Mouth
Model Citizen
Motiv
Negative Zero
Oh No You Didn’t
Options R
Patrick Cadaver
Say Uncle
Silver Tongue Devils
Sleep State
Stiff Kittens
Suburban Disturbance
Suburban Epidemic
Suburban Smash
Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship
The Crying Bloody Rain in December on Tuesday 4
The Epic Mayhem
The Fear Alert
The Heathens
The Hitmen
The Inviting
The Irrelevants
The Mhurs
The Notorious Belleville Pizza Bandits
The Paper Transit
The Revengers
The Undefined
The Union Blue
Time Bomb
Tonight At Seven
Viloce-Raptors
World Police
Touring Bands
36 Years (WI)
Astpai (Australia)
Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk (KS)
Beyond Repair (MI)
Clocktower Showdown (Marion, IL)
Fake Problems(FL)
Forty Lashes (MI)
Jon Crocker (CA)
Knock-Out(CA)
Landmines (VA)
Long Dong Silver (Milan, Italy)
Matt K (KA)
Murdock (TN)
Nothington(CA)
Number 9 Hard (WI)
One Win Choice (NJ)
Rat City Riot (CA)
Rachel H (KS)
She Likes Todd (Chicago, IL)
Stucky Lucky (TN)
Suzi Trash (AR)
The Campaign 1984 (NC)
The Swellers (MI)
Toby Foster (Chicago, IL)
Vengeance 77 (GA)
We Are The Union (MI)
The studio and venue are located at 6 & 8 S. Church in Belleville, IL.
Send us a message for booking the venue at Illegal Tone Recordings.
So about the recording studio:
We have what you need to get your demo cut ASAP, or spend some time here and we can get your album done. Here’s how we operate:
We’re a studio built upon the DIY ethic. But we understand many home studios can’t pull the knowledge and equipment out of thin air. That’s where we come in. The engineer is going to work for you. You’ll get an opinion if you ask for it and you’ll get creative feedback. But don’t forget, this is YOUR project, we’re going to do things your way. You want to record your vocals in a cardboard box? Sounds good to us, if you don’t like it, we’ll try something else. You WON’T get a pretentious 20 year old that calls himself a "producer" telling you what YOU "need" in YOUR sound. We’re gonna let you do YOUR thing and be creative. Play with a cat while your friend tracks drums, it’s all good. Track your guitar while laying on a couch, great. Wanna record live? Wonderful, we need more of that these days. You can basically do what you want as long as you respect the facility, the equipment, and the people in the facility, that means each other as well.
There are plenty of studios around, as they have become a "dime a dozen." Many are kind of silly, many are nice. We are a professional studio with professionals working in it. We’re here because this is what we like to do, we hope you’ll like doing it too. We just want to get your product down on a CD and you happy.
Please e-mail us at [email protected] or send us a message for a price quote and possible recording time. You can also call 618-978-2408. Prices start around $28/hour, but we can talk about all that later.
Thanks for checking us out. Some of the equipment we use:
Studiomaster Mixdown Gold 16x8x16
Shure sm57s(3)
Shure Beta 52a
Shure sm7
Audix i5
Audix OM5
AKG Perception 200(2)
AKG 414B-ULS (2)
AKG C430(2)
EV RE-20
MXL 990
MXL 991
MXL 9000
8 Focusrite preamps
4 channels of API 312
Echo Audiofire 12 converters
Kurzweil k2000r
M-Audio Keystation 61
KRK Rokit 6 monitors
Mackie Big Knob
Waves Diamond Bundle
Cubase SX3
Sony Sound Forge 7.0
FL 5
3.4 GHz, 2 Gig Ram
300 GB Glyph hard drive