Location Audio Recording

Artists and Producing Organizations have been encouraged to think outside the box with their venue choies – and to accommodate that, our location recording systems have been engineered to be as portable as possible, without any sonic compromise.

We’ve built our location recording system around the Avid Venue series of consoles, and our in-house mixing and mastering system around a trio of Universal Audio Apollo X-Series interfaces. This allows our engineers to capture up to 64 channels of audio during each session – suffice to say, large-scale orchestral projects are our bread and butter.

Our systems allow us to operate, record, and mix in any space, no matter how large, small, or remote. Whether we are capturing your art or mixing your project in post, it will be worked on using the finest tools available.

When conducting an orchestra – much like recording a piece of classical music – success will be found in the care and attention to a lifetime’s worth of tiny details, rather than by painting with a few strong, broadly painted strokes. We will work tirelessly to ensure that your recording is done right and we will obsess over the finest of details – because it is our job to care about your sound just as much as you do.

Our engineers know what a quality performance is, because they’ve spent their lives training in the same circles as our clients. Pair our location recording systems with a locker full of the world’s finest microphones (Schoeps, Neumann, Audio Technica, and AKG) and the keen ears of our recording engineers-cum-musicians, and and your recording will be in the best hands possible.

Sure, anyone can throw up some expensive mics, turn on an audio interface, twist a few knobs, and email you a WAV file. But at the end of the day, who do you want to trust with your art – an outfit that frantically rushes through your pieces so they can tear down and get to the next gig? Or rather, a team who will keenly listen to you, support your performance, and make sure that every detail is found and every nuance heard?

Do you need to track a session, yet aren’t able to make it to a studio? Let our technicians work with you remotely. Valhalla Media is a certified Source Connect Pro studio, and we can work with you and your talent from anywhere in the world. Whether we’re tracking your session from your home booth through our own recording and editing suite, or if your engineers need to connect with us to record you from our studio booth in Chicago, Illinois – whatever your recording needs may be, we’re here to service them all throughout the COVID-19 epidemic.