The Magic Closet is a
state-of-the-art recording facility
located in the historic Meek family
house in the Sellwood
neighborhood of Portland, OR.
The studio was designed for a
variety of recording applications,
including (but not limited to) live
band tracking and overdubs,
radio voiceovers, audio restoration,
mixing and editing.
Using top-quality
microphones, preamps, analog
gear and computers, the Magic
Closet is able to provide high-end
sound at an affordable price.
The engineers at The Magic
Closet are experienced
musicians who understand the
creative process. The studio was
built to be esthetically pleasing
and conducive to creativity.
We can also import and
export sessions for those who
like to track at home or other
locations.
Telephone
The Joggers
Minmae
Jacob Golden
Sounds Like
Fun
Drunken Prayer
Scotland Barr and the Slow Drags
Copia
Dykeritz
Silversafe
Kymera
The John Howland Trio
Eli Westin
Damian & Zeto
S-ankh Rasa
Ulterior
The Sons of Bitches
Serpent Garden
Glenys Rogers
Tim Ennis
Ken Cooper
Out of Darkness
Darrell Carver
Dave Poppenhagen
Roman Gackowski
Menomena
Theo and His Drums
Anthony (Zolly) Duggins
Zack Meyers
Leigh Marble
Iain Culp
Randy Campbell
Jimmy Braskett
Rachel Taylor Brown
Sweater
Nick and Natalie
Seth Hutton
Alex Gomez
Soul Distraction
Cyndi HarvellDavid Kessler
The Heirs of Eiffel Tower
Valerie Reaves
MaryRose Caasi
Chronicle
The Return
Eux Autres
Frank Blair
Ben Rice
Parks & Recreation
Mick Bird
The Swingens
Captain Bogg and Salty
Amelia Scheider
Emma Hill
The Hollow Point
Skeletor Mojo
Russ McCraw
Jerry Williams
Amity
TJ Boeschen
Sean Wagner
Jon Kolbert
Felix
Rightous Indignation
Jim McNeil
Chris Mosley
Augnice
Andrew Vu
Christina Perry
The Closet Monsters
Omar
James Hamill
James Clem
Split Self
Jonny Davidson
Marc Bernard
Printz Board (Black Eyed Peas)
Rebekah White
Co-existence
Bryn Loosley
Galen Fous
Gas the Caddie
Brandon Carmody
Sandin Wilson
Kwh
Rokopolis
Vocal Downloads
Gada
Paul Warren
Linda Daiber
Terry Foty
Click Below For A Demo CD
POLICIES
Booking:
A 25% refundable deposit is
required to book time. Cancellations
must be made at least 7 days prior
to start date. For a new project's
first session, at least 4 hours must
be booked.
Your Recording Output:
One audio CD is provided (free
of charge) at the end of each
session. Additional copies are $1
each.
The Magic Closet recommends
that you bring in your own hard
drive to your sessions. By doing
so, you will have the ability to
access or modify your multitrack
recordings at a later date at any
studio using Pro Tools HD (or
compatible) system. However,
since hard drives can and do fail,
we also recommend that you
backup your recordings to another
medium. You're welcome to ask
us about this. We'll be happy to
make recommendations or
suggestions.
The recordings will be in digital
format (Pro Tools 7.0), usually
24-bit 44.1 kHz, but at higher
sample rates upon request. The
recommended hard drive is an
external Firewire 7200 rpm 8 MB
cache drive with 60 GB or greater
capacity. We considered stocking
drives to sell at the studio, but
due to constantly changing prices,
we've found that clients can get a
better deal by purchasing one at
Best Buy, another computer store,
or online retailer such as
www.provantage.com.
Drives are typically around $125.00
We can also burn your sessions
to DVDs. DVD burning is billed
at the regular studio rate plus
the cost of the DVDs.
Archiving at the Magic Closet is
available for $1/gigabyte. If you
record with us and don't want to be
responsible for the backup of your
recordings, but you think you may
want to add to or modify them
later, we can burn the sessions to
DVD and archive them onsite for
you. A typical project is 10-20 GB,
which would come to $10-$20. An
entire album of a full band with
overdubs could potentially use
much more than that, so the
price is dependent upon how many
songs, tracks, takes, etc.
Note: even if we archive the
sessions for you, we cannot be
responsible for events beyond our
control such as fires, floods, theft,
etc. We will do our best to protect
the recordings but again<br recommend that you bring in a
hard drive and back up the files
yourself.
We very strongly recommend
choosing one or all of the above
options for your recordings! If
you come in and record, but don't
bring a hard drive, decide not to
have us backup the recordings,
and decide not to have us burn
them to DVD, you will receive only
your final mixes at the end of your
sessions, and your data will be
deleted from our hard drive one
week after finishing your project.
Many questions arise about data
backup, so feel free to ask your
engineer any questions you may
have.
Download the print-friendly
PDF brochure
of the Magic Closet
Recording
Policies and Guidelines.