Mobile Audio Recording

Night Owl Recording has been multi-track recording in the Austin and central Texas area for over 15 years.  We use a custom, modular recording rig that scales to any project.  We come to you, where you're comfortable, to help get the best possible recording.

You might be surprised at the affordability of live location recording, especially alongside today's commercial recording studio rates. Combined with a high-class, high-quality rig, Night Owl makes recording sound so sweet that you should probably give us a HOOT

We can't wait to hear from you.  512 825 5685 or allen@nightowlrecording.com.   

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With the Austin, Texas based Night Owl Mobile Recording Rig, owner and engineer Allen Kyle has done live multi-track location recording for:
Billy Joe Shaver
Laika and the Cosmonauts
Chris Cornell (Soundgarden)
Mudhoney
LeVar Burton (Reading Rainbow, Star Trek)
Slightly Stoopid
Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis
the Meat Puppets
J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr.
Raul Malo, James McMurtry
Ruthie Foster
Texas Tornadoes
Voivod
Hudson Moore
Elephone
Jack Ingram
Flaco Jimenez
the Gourds
Malford Milligan
the Josh Abbott Band
the Austin Lounge Lizards
Maldroid
Eric Moore
Federico Abuele
Thomas Dolby
Ray Wylie Hubbard
War Daddies
She Craves
Stonehoney
Make It Stop
Cory Morrow
the Austin Jazz Band
Two Tons of Steel
Skyrocket
The Derailers
Grace Temple Ministries
Augie Meyers
Sugar and Gold
John Wesley Harding
Mo Robson
Blowing Trees
Max Stalling
the Deep River Ministry
the Geezinslaws
the Krayolas
Kid Beyond
Dan Crary
Tish Hinojosa
the Lost Trailers
Built for the Sea
the Octopus Project
Dead Confederate
Dale Watson, and many others.

At the Promiseland Recording Studios in Austin, Texas, Allen co-engineered, alongside Gold/Platinum recording engineer Mike Hersh, nearly 100 multi-track live recordings of the Awakening, a live praise and worship music television program airing in millions of homes on digital cable television networks like TBN and Daystarr.  Featured Awakening artists included Denver and the Mile High Orchestra, Russ Taft, the Katinas, Israel Houghton, the Crabb Family, Becky Fender, and many, many more.  Also at the Promiseland Studios, Allen had the privileage of recording and mixing Alabanza Reala live, Latin praise and worship music program televised on TBN, Enlace, FETV, and in several parts of South America.


As a member of the now defunct Star System radio network and KVET FM in Austin, Texas Allen was fortunate to able to record some of country music's biggest stars, including Willie Nelson, Dwight Yoakum, Larry Gatlin, Jerry Jeff Walker, Pat Green, Gary P. Nunn, The Derailers, and many others.

You can trust Night Owl Recording as a partner in your production.

Equipment
  • Microphones:
            Audio Technica 4050
            Audio Technica 4041
            Audix D 6
            Audix D 4
            Audix Micro D
            Octava MK12
            MXL 2001
            Sennheiser 421
            Shure Beta 57
            Shure Beta 87a
            Shure SM 57
            Shure SM 81
  • Recorders:
            Presonus Studiolive 24 AI w/ Macbook Pro
            Joe Co Blackbox (24-bit, 96k)
            Mackie MDR 24 Track (24-bit, 96k)
            Mackie SDR 24 Track (24-bit, 96k)
            M Audio 8x8 Audio Interface
            Alesis Masterlink ML-9600 Stereo
  • Preamplifiers:
            ATI 8MX2 - 8 Channels
            Mackie ONYX 800R - 8 chs
            True Systems Precision 8 - 8 
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  • DAW Platforms: 
            Pro Tools 2020.5
            Presonus Capture
            Presonus Studio One
            Mackie Hard Disk Editor
  • PLUG-Ins
    • CLA Classic Compressors CLA-2A and 1176
    • SSL 4000 Collection
    • API 2500
    • API 560 series
    • CLA Effects
  • Monitors:
            Event 20/20 Biamplified System
  • Mixers:
            Presonus Studiolive 24 AI
            Behringer DDX 3216 Digital 
  • Compressors/Limiters:
            Aphex Compellor
            DBX 166 XL
            FMR Audio RNC
  • Effects:
            TC Electronic M-One XL
            Roland SRV 3030
  • 24 Channel Transformer Isolated Mic Splitter with 75' Trunk and 10' Trunk
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Area Venues
  • Stubb's
  • Coupland Inn and Dancehall
  • Paramount Theatre
  • Threadgill's
  • Cypress Creek Cafe
  • Continental Club
  • Hole in the Wall
  • Rosedale Park
  • Guadalupe Theatre
  • Spiro's
  • Hogsett Theatre
  • Brizo's Restaurant
  • The Mohawk
  • Vibe
  • Leon Springs Dancehall
  • Casbeer's
  • The Belmont
  • ND Studios
  • Antone's
  • BD Riley's
  • OK Mountain
  • Emo's
  • Hill Country Church
  • St Peter's Church
  • Promiseland Theatre  
  • Promiseland Church
  • Dog and Duck Pub
  • Many, Many, Many more