About Newtown Recorders

Newtown Recorders is a ~1000 sf collaborative, full service sound recording and production space in Brooklyn, NY, USA serving mostly independent music creators and colleagues. The vibe is comfortable and informal, with a small kitchenette and bathroom in the studio. We've been in business at this location since 2008, and are proud to have assisted in the creation of a very great deal of fantastic original recorded music and sound, for the smoking hot local music and arts scene (yeah, ok, we're biased) as well as national and international bands, film and video productions, performance artists, etc.

The hybrid digital/analog recording environment at Newtown Recorders is designed for maximum transparency/minimum initial learning curve, featuring a collection of boutique microphone preamplifiers (incl GML, Crane Song, Great River, Sebatron, Weight Tank, Shadow Hills, Drawmer, AEA) normalled into 24 tracks (up to 32 available) of Pro Tools Ultimate/HD, Logic, or Ableton Live.

26 channels and counting of outboard processing are available, with 16 channels of dynamics processing (incl Drawmer, DW Fearn, Chandler, Overstayer, Tube-Tech, DBX, Audioscape Engineering) normalled across the inserts of the Neve 5059. 16 channels of outboard equalization (incl Retro Instruments, Great River, Nightpro-now Maag-Summit, CAPI) is patch-able. At mixdown both our Neve 5059 and Shadow Hills Equinox are available for hybrid mixing, summing through outboard processing or straight back into the box. Monitoring is via ATC SCM25As and the mastering grade monitor section of the Shadow Hills Equinox.

The mic locker at Newtown Recorders is deep and broad (incl Wunder, Lawson, Neumann, AKG, Josephson, Beyerdynamic, Sennheiser, Electrovoice, Shure, Royer, Mojave, Shinybox, Rode, Audix), and a comprehensive selection of instruments (incl Steinway L, vintage Wurlitzer and Fender Rhodes electric pianos, Hammond M102 w/ Leslie, a large collection of vintage and modern synths, 4 drum kits with many cymbals and optional pieces, and timpani), and amplifiers (Vintage Marshall, Hiwatt, and Fender; Bugera, Ampeg, Bogen, Amp Club of Cambridge, Egnater), rounds the place out.

Newtown recorders was built by Brooklyn producer/engineer Chris D. Butler with more than a little help from his friends, and is co-owned by Butler and Stephen Webber of the Brooklyn band The Ivory Piece.