• Top-notch recording studio located close to Chicago
  
  

• Pro Tools & Fully Automated 64 Channel Console
  
  

• Artist Development, Pro Tools Editing, Drum Gridding.  
  
  

• CD Production / Full length albums 
  
  

• Outstanding live room - Tall Ceilings / Floating Floor
  
  

• Demos for Songwriters & Singers 
  
  

• Workshops for recording engineering, one-on-one engineer training, small group training classes on mixing. Limited to qualified candidates. By appointment only.
  
  

• Package, Block, and Project Rates.
  
  

• Voice Overs, Commercials, Jingles
  
  

• Large Live Room - Isolation booths - Comfortable Control Room - In-house Drum Kit set-up ready to go*
  * Rental fee required.
  
  

• Skip the hassles of downtown studios 
  
  

• Rock, Pop, Blues, Country, Metal, Folk, Jazz,
  Hip Hop, Rap, Beats, and more. 
  
  

• Wide range of musicians available for projects, and engineers on call for specific needs. 
  
  

• Convert LPs 33, 45, 78's and Reels to CD's

 
A little history... Energy Command Studios opened its doors in 1991 in a small location in Glenview, Illinois. Within 3 years, the studio was busting at the seams and grew into a multi-room facility. The studio increased the console size to 32 channels and became a 24 Track facility. In 1999, the studio moved to the current building location in Arlington Heights where the console expanded to 48 channels and grew into 56 tracks. 

While bands & artists knew the 2nd location in Arlington Heights as a cozy place, they always valued the big sound out of the mixes that came from the studio. An off-site B-Room in the northwest side of Chicago was added for mastering, edits, and Digidesign ProTools mix-downs in 2003.

In 2004, Energy Command Studios began the labor intensive move & buildout of what is now the new studio in the same building. Major upgrades were done to the studio, including customizing room structure and adding an impressive array of state of the art high-end gear.

- Renowned DBX Blue series 786 Mic Pre-Amp
- Two DBX Blue Series 160SL dual channel Compressors
- Groove Tubes VIPRE all tube mic pre-amp adds incredible warmth for vocals and instruments, and is a nice compliment to the assortment of large diaphragm condenser vocal microphones the studio has.
- Eventide Orville Harmonizer & Special Effects Processor
- TC Electronics M3000 reverb and other TC & Lexicon Reverbs.
- Mesa Boogie Roadster Amplifier and Rectifier Recording pre-amp
- Manley/Langevin Pre-Amps
- Manley Massive Passive Tube EQ
- Brent Avril (BAE), Rupert Neve, and Avedis Pre-Amps
- API 500 series w/ compressor, Great River Harrison EQ
- Additional Class A pre-Amps
- Other gear from Antares, Lexicon,
- TC-Electronic Gold Channel
- TC Electronics Multi-Band Compressors
- Yamaha Motif, Vintage Roland Keyboard & sound modules.
- For remote recording we have Onyx Pre-Amps (16) to go with older Tube Mic Pre's.
- Great Ribbon Mics including Royer 121's & Shure 313.
- Really nice acoustic guitars including the Taylor 414-CE (M414-MACE), Taylor 310CE, Seagul Cedars - 12 and 6 strings, vintage Epiphone 12 string, and more.

The addition of Quad Core PC's and Mac G5 to run Pro-Tools HD along with the power of the DM-4800 for 24 tracks of external HUI based fader, mute, and controller capabilities adds incredible power & flexibility to Energy Command Studios.

The studio also has a PC based Quad Core machines for running other Pro Tools rigs and other software. Video Editing capability with Sony Vegas and Final Cut. High Speed Wireless internet and Cable TV for those who need to stay in touch with the outside world between/during sessions.

The Waves Platinum plug-in's round out the Digidesign Pro-Tools effects processing along with Steinberg Wavelab. We are experts with the acclaimed Celemony Melodyne software - this system can truly be magic for those in need.

Sony's Sound Forge 10, 9 & 8 (by Sonic Foundry), Sony Acid, & Sony Vegas, Steinberg Cubase SX3. 

Other great gear available includes 8 channels of Focusrite Class-A Mic Pre's, DBX Tube Mic Pre, Vintage Shure SM-7 and a later model Shure SM-7B's, the 2 largest diaphragm Shure KSM Series Microphones, Shure KSM-313, the classic AKG C-414 (three of them), vintage EV mics, 70's {Les Paul} Recording Guitar, Gibson Les Paul Standard, US Made BC Rich, AKG C-12 Clone. For special projects, we can bring in select guitars & cabs (Marshall & Egnator). Guitars range from PRS's, Gibson Les Pauls, '56 NOS Strat, PRS Mccarty, and other PRS's, Strat's, Rickenbacker, Godin, Washburn, Seagull, Taylor, and more. Some specific guitars indicated here are available for rental for attended in-studio use sessions. 

Click here to see pictures of the studio during the reconstruction!

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