Joe's Garage

Joe's Garage Central Bristol based recording studio specialising in capturing exciting live recordings. The studio is located in a basement with a comfy, down to earth feel.

Joe's Garage is a recording studio located right in the heart of Old Market in central Bristol. We specialise in capturing exciting, vibey live performances with varying (or no) degrees of separation for live 'band in a room' sounds or more Hi-Fi results. Joe’s Garage has a large main live room, separate amp booth areas and control room. The main live room is big enough to have 5-6 people playing

live together. The studio houses a great selection of equipment and is constantly being upgraded

Thermionic Culture Little Red Bustard
(valve summing mixer)
SSL Nucleus 16 fader controller with 2x SSL pre's
SSL, RME and Universal Audio convertors
Neve 1073 DPA (2 channel preamp)
API 3124+ (4 channel preamp)
16 channels of Audient preamps
(Able to record up to 28 mic channels live)
Roland RE201 and SRE-555 Space Echos
Vesta Fire RV2 stereo spring reverb
Great British Spring
Empirical Labs FATSO and EL8 Distressor
TK Audio BC1-S (SSL style bus comp)
2x DBX 160
2x Universal Audio UA610 valve preamp
Universal Audio LA610MK2 valve channel strip
2x Klark Teknik Pultec style valve EQ
2x Klark Teknik KT2A valve comp/limiters
SPL Transient Designer
2x Phoenix DRS-1R pre's
2x CAPI VP312 pre's
Mac Pro 5.1 running Logic Pro X 10.1
Plug ins from Slate, Sound Toys, Waves and UAD among many others

Adam A7X monitors

Wide selection of mics including:
Neumann U87ai
2x Earthworks SR30 (MP)
2x Neumann TLM102
3x AKG C414ULS
2x Josephson C42s (MP)
Ear Trumpet Labs Edwina
Audio Technica AT4041
Sennheiser MD441
EV RE20
Solomon LoFReQ sub kick
Shure SM7b
Blue Bluebird
Blue Ball
2x Crown CM310a
2x Sennheiser e906s
4x Sennheiser e904s
Sennheiser e935
6X Telefunken M80
Telefunken M82
Shure KSM9
2x Audio Technica ATM450s
Audio Technica AT804
STC 4032
Shure Beta91a
Realistic PZMs
2x Beyer M88
Beyer M69
4x Beyer 201s
4x Shure SM57s
Beyer TGX-50
EV ND868
2x Bang & Olufsen BM3 (RCA ribbons fitted by Xaudia)
2x Bang & Olufsen BM5 (stereo XY ribbon)
2x Bang & Olufsen MD8
Beyer M130 figure 8 ribbon
4x Beyer M260 ribbons (refurbished by Xaudia)
Radial JDX48 and Palmer speaker DI/sims
Sansamp, Orchid, Radial, EMO and BSS DI’s

Guitar/bass amps (usually many others to close from)
1970’s Fender Twin Reverb ‘silverface’
1970's Laney LC60 (modded)
1970’s Burman Pro501 combo
1970’s Burman Pre/Power 100w head
1969 Ampeg SVT / Aguilar GS412
1970’s Ampeg V4 + 4x12
1970’s Ampeg B25B + 2x15
1970's Orange OR120 + 4x12

Beyerdynamic DT770 and DT150, Audio Technica ATH M50, AKG K271 and K171 and Superlux 'Iso' headphones

Premier Genista drum kit
(22" kick, 12", 13", 16" toms and Big Dog 13" snare)
Premier pre international vintage drum kit
(20" kick, 10" and 14" toms with snare and bongos)

Loads and loads of FX pedals including pieces from Strymon, Bugbrand, Earthquaker Devices, Snarling Dogs, Proco, EHX, Catalinbread, Alesis, Boss, Vox, Jim Dunlop, DOD and Marshall among others

We also have some great contacts to hire in vintage amps, keys and drums when required.

07/02/2026

Topette!! are extremely excited about our new recording "Tazon".
We hope to have preorders ready by the end of the month on our Bandcamp page AKA The Shopette!!

Meanwhile, you could head there this Friday the 5th of Feb and snap up any of our previous albums or our tune books while it's Bandcamp Friday, and we get a little extra income to help fund the release of Tazon... Merci beaucoup!
https://topette.bandcamp.com/music

Joe’s Garage is moving! We’ll be starting 2025 in a fantastic new space, we’re buddying up with House of Dunce and movin...
01/01/2025

Joe’s Garage is moving!
We’ll be starting 2025 in a fantastic new space, we’re buddying up with House of Dunce and moving into St Dunstan’s House in Bedminster, Bristol.

The studio has two good sized live rooms - one with a dry sound and a low ceiling and the other with high ceiling and original church windows. There is also a good sized booth in between the two rooms with windows between all three spaces. Excellent for tracking full bands live with separation and flexible ambience. The control room is on an isolated mezzanine with plenty of space to comfortably fit a band and pedalboards/keys etc for mixing and overdubs.
Initial rate will be £250 pd. We’re taking bookings now for February onwards.

We’ll be sharing some more pics during the moving process throughout January.

Huge thanks to all at Exchange which the studio has called home for 10 years! It’s been an amazing community of wonderful people to be a part of and we’ll miss you all.

28/12/2024
Here's an extremely lovely thing that was a real pleasure to get to work on
30/08/2022

Here's an extremely lovely thing that was a real pleasure to get to work on

London-based folk duo Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell announce their debut album ‘You, Golden’, and share a live video for album opener Adson’s.

02/03/2022

Second single from the forthcoming LOOP album recorded and mixed in the Garage dropped last week with this mind melting video

Some great pics here from last weeks Davey Woodward session by PhotojB
10/01/2022

Some great pics here from last weeks Davey Woodward session by PhotojB

18/11/2021

First track from the upcoming Loop album up for streaming ahead of the albums release on March 11 2022. Recorded and mixed in the Garage.

Preview new track by Wilderness Hymnal mixed in the Garage from his upcoming split LP with Duncan Evans.
08/10/2021

Preview new track by Wilderness Hymnal mixed in the Garage from his upcoming split LP with Duncan Evans.

It’s our pleasure to premiere an upcoming track from Wilderness Hymnal! “I Buried My Teeth” from his upcoming split album with Duncan Evans (whose name you will recognize from AltCtrl bylines). Until Liars Fear You will be released on November 5th via Trepanation Recordings. Javier Wallis o...

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BS20

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