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A World-Class Recording Rig. Parked Outside Your Door.

We run two identical, fully decoupled acoustic float-room studios across Southern California. You skip the commercial studio politics and the drive across town, and cut a record outside your own door.

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SonikBox mobile studio control room, neon-lit, with an engineer at the desk.

Acoustic Engineering

NC-15 Certified Mobile Float Room

Fully decoupled walls, custom damask broadband trapping and neon ambient tuning, for a quiet room to track in.

SonikBox leather lounge seating against backlit damask-patterned acoustic wall panels.

// The Lounge

Room to Sit Between Takes

You sit on custom-stitched leather against back-lit acoustic paneling, under RGB lighting zones you set to the color temperature you want.

Hub 01 - Greater Los Angeles Basin: We cover Hollywood, Burbank, Santa Monica, Silver Lake and the Valley.
Hub 02 - San Diego County: We cover downtown San Diego, North County, La Jolla and Chula Vista, and we drive out to El Cajon or the desert venues.

SonikBox Studio Rider

The same gear in both mobile hubs.

The Gear In Both Vehicles// Signal Chain Manifest

Both vehicles carry the same gear, so you get the same signal chain whichever hub takes the job.

Module 01 - Monitoring & Room Tuning

Main Reference Monitors: KRK Rokit 7s
Nearfield Reference: Avantone Pro Active MixCubes
Headphone Distribution: Dangerous Music SOURCE & Audio-Technica M50x (x4)
Room Tuning: Custom Vicoustic Diffusion & Bass Trapping

Module 02 — Analog Signal Chain & Processing

Microphone Preamps: Neve 1073OPX (8 Channels of Pure Analog Warmth)
Tube Dynamics: Tube-Tech CL 1B Opto Compressor Reissue
Audio Converters: Universal Audio Apollo x16 Heritage Edition
DAW System: Mac Studio M2 Ultra (Pro Tools Ultimate, Logic, Ableton)

Module 03 - Microphone Locker

Vocal Flagship: Neumann U87 Ai Large-Diaphragm Condenser
Multi-Pattern Condensers: AKG C414 XLII (Stereo Matched Pair)
Tube Condenser: ADK A48
Vocal / Broadcast Dynamics: Shure SM7B (x1)

Module 04 - Clean Power & Network

Power Delivery: Victron Quattro Inverter (120V / 60Hz) & Backup Cummins Generator with Auto Start
Studio Isolation: Furman M8x2 Power Conditioner
Network Connections: Starlink Mobility for Real-Time cloud tracking/collabs

Module 05 - Instrument & Performance Locker

Synthesizers Included: Moog Sub 37, Dave Smith Instruments Prophet ’08, Behringer DeepMind 12, Korg microKORG, Akai Professional MPK Mini
Drum Machines & Pads Included: Elektron Digitakt, Akai Professional APC64, Akai Professional MPD218
DJ Gear Paid add-on - not included: Pioneer DJ CDJ-3000 (x2) & Pioneer DJ DJM-A9 Mixer +$150 flat Pioneer DJ XDJ-RX3 +$100 flat Ask for DJ gear when you book.

Price Your Session// Session Rate Builder

Pick your hub, set the hours and add-ons, and send us the estimate when it looks right.

Hub

Tracking Hours

4 hrs

Distance From Hub

Add-Ons

Grammy-vetted Tracking Engineer - +$80/hr Antares Auto-Tune Hybrid Real-time Rig - +$100 flat Full Stereophonic Mixdown & Reference Master - +$250 / track

Status: Ready

Ready to Track?

Tell us your hub and your date. We'll come back inside one business day with gear, crew and arrival time.

Email Us to Book book@sonikbox.studio