Engine Studios

Engine Studios October 1999-May 2012 Engine Music Studios opened in 1999 and is located in Chicago's convenient and popular Bucktown neighborhood.

We offer a pair of Vintage studios that house a Sphere Eclipse C in our A studio and a Trident 80B in a our B room, we have a wide selection of Vintage outboard gear, tape machines, and guitar amplifiers, not to mention one of the best Microphone collections in the Midwest. With decades of personal experience behind us, Engine has a 12 year history of working with some of the brightest and best artists of our day. Engine is owned and operated by Jep Thornton, John Humphrey and Brian Deck.

05/09/2018

Engine Studios shut its doors permanently in May of 2012. This page exists as a reminder of all who worked there- from the ownership, management, staff and clients who made the great music created there over 13 years a possibility. If you know someone who worked there or dig a record made there, please give us a like!..

04/30/2012

IF you think you have analog tape masters at Engine, please get ahold of me...I've sent out numerous requests for people to pick up there reels over the years, this time for real its bulk erase or the dumpster. I have very very few reel pre-2000 (they must have went in early purges) but but post 2000 recorded at Engine its probably here if you left..come get it please! if you want a digital transfer we can do it for short period of time cheap..but get ahold of me ASAP.

04/16/2012

While people that follow these things already now, its time for a public announcement:
Engine Studios as you know it , is closing its doors on Memorial Day Weekend this year.
We aren't going away -we are just re-organizing if you will, in a new location. Merging with our old friend John McEntire at Soma studios we will now all be operating under the Soma roof and name.
Same great people, same great gear, making the same great records.
The Engine space has been a great asset for the musical community for last 12 years and we had a good run but if
you want to keep doing this, you need to be able change with times, we do and so we did. look for future updates here. until we get the transition fully sorted out.

Soma Electronic Music Studios is a fully featured 24+ track analog and digital recording studio owned and operated by John McEntire in Chicago, IL.

01/27/2012

Dawnbringer, Stinking Lizaveta, with Sanford, Kids These Days with Deck ongoing/ Upcoming.

12/31/2011

Happy New Year from Engine Studios. January is jam packed with Records from Moritat, Bare Mutants, Local H, Dawnbringer, and more..

12/31/2011

Disappears doing some pre NYE show recording yesterday....awesome.

Four of Sanfords records made in 2011 made this top 20 list, nice going Sanford. Word.
12/20/2011

Four of Sanfords records made in 2011 made this top 20 list, nice going Sanford. Word.

Five Brooklyn bands, a few members of the Big 4, two albums named 'Path of Totality,' and one sinister minister in a rubber skull mask. Watch the throne room.

Neil's been working with Tim on Joan of Arc stuff quite a bit this year. Back again Monday...
11/20/2011

Neil's been working with Tim on Joan of Arc stuff quite a bit this year. Back again Monday...

In this weekend with Sanford...
11/20/2011

In this weekend with Sanford...

BLOODYMINDED's official profile including the latest music, albums, songs, music videos and more updates.

With Sanford on the Sphere this week, What I am hearing is unbelievableSanford agrees and I quote " the best tones I've ...
11/15/2011

With Sanford on the Sphere this week, What I am hearing is unbelievable
Sanford agrees and I quote " the best tones I've heard, period." prepare to be crushed in the best way imaginable.

We're a fu***ng triumphant band

Check this out...This was done at Engine awhile back, one of the few records I got a bit hands on with, Recorded by my m...
10/28/2011

Check this out...This was done at Engine awhile back, one of the few records I got a bit hands on with, Recorded by my man Neil. I like it quite a bit (Adam is one my favorite Guitar slingers in town) and its aging quite well so pick it up at least digitally, and go see these guys live playing tonight at Cal's, I might even make it!

6 track album

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1644 N Honore Street
Chicago, IL
60622

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