Professional recordings for DC musicians, at no cost.
A great-sounding, small-but-mighty studio, free for the artists selected to participate.
Helping grow the DC music scene into the towering national monster it should be.
Greater Society Studios was formed with one simple goal in mind: to provide all DC-area musicians, whatever their means, with access to inspiring, professional recordings.
Everything you need to record your music the right way.
A tuned, designed room
A perfectly-tuned and professionally designed recording and mixing space, built to create and capture inspiration.
Gear with character
Every recording runs through an all-analog API Box II console, with all of its transformer-laden harmonic richness and warmth. Alongside it are racks of analog outboard gear and a plethora of high-end ribbon, tube, and dynamic microphones.
Pick up whatever inspires you.
Recording equipment is only as good as what’s being recorded. That means providing access to instruments that not only sound great and work flawlessly, but that inspire, each selected for its quality, dependability, breadth, and character.
Guitars, basses, and amps
Sparkly Jazzmasters to aggressive Les Pauls, jangly 12-strings to crushing baritones. And the vintage and boutique amps you need to let them rip.
Pedals
A wall of fuzz, drive, delay, and modulation. From A(nalogman) to Z(vex).
Keys and drums
A Schimmel grand piano, a restored ’78 Rhodes, a ’60s Slingerland drum kit, and a shelf of snares, cymbals, and percussion.
Synths and modular
Moog, Sequential, and other synths, plus a full Eurorack system ready to patch.
Full gear listInstruments, outboard, mics, and whatever else you need.
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(No really, totally free.)