I want to record
Producer and Studio Manager Dave Dinsmore and up-and-coming artist Casey Herd in the Big Boy Studio at Sound Kitchen. Three Doors Down lead singer Brad Arnold recorded with the band at Sound Kitchen in Franklin. Franklin is blessed to have a large number of professional recording studios. If that’s not for you, then you can always build your own recording studio in your home.
Sound Kitchen
Sound Kitchen, located on Seaboard Lane in Franklin offers a wide variety of services, according to Dave Dinsmore, studio manager with Sound Kitchen.
“We offer a wide variety of services,” he said. “First of all, we’re one of the best recording studios in the county and have the best drum room in the Big Boy studio. We do demos to full-scale albums an also offer pre-production, songwriting, cover dubs and more.”
In addition, they offer vocal or instrument lessons at the 19,000 square foot facility, which comes complete with seven studios.
“We’ve recorded some of the top acts out there,” he said. “We’ve had everyone here including Dolly Parton, Bruce Springsteen, Three Doors Down, Saving Able and more.
“We runs the full gamut of music here. There’s not just country. There’s folk, rock, Christian and more. We’re off music row, but are still one of the most popular studios around.”
Dinsmore said the studio wears “many hats as one of the largest studios in the Southeast. We are also extremely committed to customization. If the artist wants a budget, we can provide it for them and give them a line item budget with every cost on it. We’re very transparent.”
He added the goal is for the studio employees to “get to know the artists. We want to know their style, and can hire musicians, Grammy-winning producers and more, based on the compatibility of the artist. We offer very customized services. We’re not just a cookie-cutter studio.”
