The studio has hosted a number of exciting music recording sessions. Greenday rented the Costa Mesa Studios facility the summer of 2008. They used CMS as a home base to write record a large portion of their now platinum record '21st Century Breakdown'.

In the summer of 2009, Dr. Todd Forman rented the facility and used it as his home base while he brought the band Sublime back together with Roman Ramirez as the new frontman. They wrote and recorded a lot of Rome's, the Dirty Heads and Sublime's new material we're now hearing on KROQ.

Costa Mesa Studios offers the following music production services:

1) Tracking drums, vocals, guitar, bass, piano, and string instruments
2) Mixing
3) Editing
4) Mastering
5) Licensing/Brokering music and songs

Performance stations are equipped with a sound mixer, headphones, and vanity table for each performer. The performer uses the sound mixer to adjust the level of individual stems into his or her headphones.

PIANO

The studio has a good backline (selection of instruments and amplifiers) that includes a fabulous yamaha upright WX-7 that is tuned and maintained by Bob Anderson every other week. This piano was built and is maintained specifically for the high standards recording a platinum record demands. A good piano is 'full of life' and is very rare and expensive find.

DRUMS

Recording Drums is an art and few neighborhood studios get it right. Here's a sample of what the house kit sounds like. Check out Even Killborn adding drums to a Jeremy James track.

TRACKING

Here's a couple tracks Brentt Arcement and I produced, recorded and mixed with Jimmy E and Rob Beaton - Mixed in the box' with hardware inserts. Each song took 2 days to track, a day to comp and a day each to mix.

MASTERING

Here is a track I tracked and mixed for Adrian Henson, Mastered by Rob Beaton. Notice the details. This was done all 'in the box'.