Flying Blanket Recording --  Now Offering Discounted Rates for Fall 2010*

Call us at 480.621.7901

or even better email us at booking@flyingblanket.com

Welcome to the online home of Flying Blanket Recording and producer/engineer Bob Hoag.  

Bob is currently entered into the Mad Men Casting Call Contest.  You can vote for him below.

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The studio is a two-room facility located in Mesa, Arizona (a suburb of Phoenix). We specialize in analog recording and mixing, but both rooms are also equipped with Pro Tools HD 3 Accel.

We have some of the best vintage gear you can get - and we don't only have toys for the kids behind the glass. We're proud of our collection of vintage guitars, basses, amps, keyboards, and drums, as well as a bevy of other weird instruments.

As a producer, I really care about all of the records I work on, and hopefully I'll help you to make a record that's just a little bit better than you thought you were capable of. And maybe a little unique from all of the other records floating around out there. (You know, originality seems to be a dying concept these days.)

You'll find mp3s of a good deal of my work on this site, which are free to download, as well as complete gear lists with photos and descriptions.

Our studio is located in the heart of historic Mesa, in a converted 3500-sq ft house, built in 1947. We have two lounges, a full eat-in kitchen with all the necessary appliances, laundry and shower facilities, as well as accomodations for out-of-town bands. 

Studio A is fully equipped with a 1978 Neve Custom 8078 Music Console, a 10-channel Neve BCM-10 sidecar, Studer 800 2" 24-track analogue tape machines, and an Ampex ATR-102 1/2" mixdown tape machine, as well as a massive collection of vintage and modern outboard gear, as well as Pro Tools HD3 Accel which is configured to make flying between tape and PT easy. There are three live rooms for Studio A - a large one (Huerta Room) with 15' ceilings and vintage oak floors, a medium one (Rincon Room) with 9' ceilings with vintage oak floors, and a smaller, dead isolation hallway.

Studio B is fully equipped with a late 70s, hand-wired Amek 2500 36-channel console, Studer A800, Pro Tools HD3 Accel, and another big pile of great vinatge and new outboard gear. The live room, while not too big, still boasts vintage oak floors and was designed to sound like a much larger room. We think it sounds pretty great!

We also have a large collection of guitars, amps, and drums (mostly vintage), as well as two vintage pianos, a Rhodes, and a bevy of additional instruments and percussion.

Take a look around the site, please check out the mp3s (and there's a lot of variety there), browse the gear lists, look at pictures of old drums, and check out the photos of the studio!

*Discounted 2010 Fall Rates are:

A Room with Engineer/Producer Bob Hoag - $450 per day weekdays, $500 per day weekends.

B Room with Engineer Gerald Schoenherr - $250 per day weekdays, $300 per day weekends.

Our day rates are based on a 9am - 6pm-ish workday as we are of the belief that people do their best work when they are awake and alert and rarely find that things start getting better after ten hours.