Native Restoration

Tucked into the mountains of rural Utah is a recording studio that specializes in ethnic music for record companies, film and television broadcast, and music libraries. The studio features state of the art recording equipment, a floated tracking room, 32+tracks of digital audio, automated mixing, hard disk recording/editing, time-lock for film and television, and much more.

Higher Octave (formerly w/Windham Hill) recording artist Douglas Spotted Eagle has recorded all of his projects for film, television, and publicly released records at the studio.

John, Josh, Ron, Spot, Brian, Jim...........Part of the crew at Native Restoration.

Clients include: Windham Hill, Narada, Higher Octave, CBS, HBO, Turner, Disney, Showtime, TNT, PBS, Universal, Epic, Capitol, BMG, Fox, Warner Brothers, Robbie Robertson, Brian Keane, Utah Jazz, and more.
The above photo is in our old location, photos of the new location coming soon. The studio features:

John Hardy M-1 Mic preamps, (The best non-sounding pre in the world, we think!) Digitech VTP Preamps
Tascam DA-88 tape machines w/Apogee 1000 converter
96 input automated TASCAM M-5000 console
CakeWalk, Musicator, Voyetra sequencing software
Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge, Architect, Waves Plug-ins, Digidesign ProTools Sound Editing Software
SEK'd multitrack Hard disk editing software
Event Layla 8 channel interface
Mark of the Unicorn Midi Timepiece II interface (2)
Event Tria monitors
AMR-308 nearfleld monitors
AMR 2112 Farfield monitors
Lexicon 300, Digitech TSR 24 verb (2) Alesis Microverb (3) DBX 1066/166 compressors (2) Peavey VTC Tube compressor, Alesis 3630 compressor (2) Aphex quad compressor, Digitech DSP 256, BBE processor, many older lo-res DDL/Verb boxes available as well. All Cabling Canare/Mogami oxygen free
Korg Trinity, WaveStation, O1WR, M3R, M1R, Roland JV-880, Yamaha DX-7, Alesis S-4, D-4, D-5, Emu Proteus World, Procussion, Proteus 1, Akai CD-3000 Sampler, Ensoniq ASR-10 Sampler.
Peavey DPM C-8, DPM 4, DPM SI controller keyboards.
Pintech Electronic Drum pads for percussion control both acoustically and via midi. Spot also tours with these drums.
All power provided by Equitek power distribution system, balanced and cleaned.
2-21" Visual monitors for cues-to-film
700 sq ft control room 150 sq ft floated tracking room, 400 sq ft tracking area (not floated)

The studio has entertained and produced over 100 powwow recordings, over 100 film and television projects, and has won Telly awards. We were also nominated for an Emmy in 1996 with HBO's "PAHA SAPA" a story of the Black Hills of South Dakota. Native Restoration only takes on special projects, and is not for general public hire. Ethnic projects are our specialty. Certain selected ethnic projects are recorded or produced for little or no cost. Call for a rate.
Being nestled in the hills of Stockton, Utah, makes for a very intimate setting. There are rooms on site for overnite guests, with a Best Western about 20 miles away. Horseback riding, hiking, mountain climbing, and general peace and quiet are found at this little studio in the west desert.

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