Great guitar tone comes from air being moved: loudly, freely, and without compromise. The amp room at Hillroad Records is designed to let you push tube amplifiers right into their sweet spot, without bleeding into the live room or overwhelming the rest of the band.
It is an acoustically controlled, isolated space built specifically for tone. Connected seamlessly to both the live room and control room via high-quality patching, it allows you to swap heads, try different cabinets, and crank the volume as far as the song demands. Here, you get complete control over every mic placement, cabinet, and frequency, allowing gear to sound like it was meant to sound: full, dynamic, and unapologetically honest.
In many studios, pushing guitar and bass amps to their sweet spot means compromising the feel of a live take. At Hillroad Records, our dedicated amp room solves that problem seamlessly. It lets us crank tube amplifiers to their absolute sweet spot while keeping the live room completely clean and bleed-free.
The room is acoustically treated to capture the raw, organic character of cabinets and combo amps without boxy resonances or harsh reflections. Whether you are pushing a vintage tube head into heavy power-amp saturation or dialing in a delicate, ambient clean sound, the acoustics ensure every detail, transient, and harmonic frequency is captured with clarity and depth.
Connected directly to the control room and live room via high-end Ghielmetti patching and dedicated tie-lines, changing setups or auditioning different heads and cabs is fast and straightforward. It gives you full control over your signal routing, keeping the energy of the performance high while keeping the volume right where it belongs.
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Tech Talk
Marshall:
- JTM 45 Bluesbreaker
- JCM2000 TSL60
- Reverb 12
Vox
Fender
- ’65 Bassman (Original Blackface 1964, Pre-CBS parts)
- Bassman 100 (Original Silverface 1972)
- ’59 Bassman
- Twin Reverb
- Frontman 15B
Supro
Mesa Boogie
Peavey
Boutique & Custom Build
- Stamp 18 (Boutique build)
Cabs
Electric
- Duesenberg Falken
- Gretsch Baritone Duo Jet
- Fender Telecaster
- Epiphone Les Paul
- Yamaha Pacifica
- Cort Curbow Bass
Acoustic
- Martin D-13
- Fender Mandoline
- Ohana Ukelele
- Overdrive/Distortion/Fuzz: MXR, Boss, Fuzzy Drive, Foxy Tone Box
- Modulation/Delay/Reverb: Strymon, Boss, Source Audio
- Wah/Expression: Cry Baby
- Tuner/Looper: TC Electronics Polytune, Dito Looper
- Compressor/Sustain: Boss, Sustainer