The Crash Factory is a small but perfectly formed recording studio placed comfortably in the Hockley area of Nottingham City Centre. We pay little attention to trends and fads in music, trusting our ears to tell us what sounds good rather than relying on our clients’ haircuts to be in fashion.

The Crash Factory comprises several acoustically designed rooms: a pentagonal-shaped Control Room offering a perfectly flat listening environment; a Live Room with changeable surfaces (from bright and reflective to clean and close) and a well-isolated dead room to record more intimate things like vocals, or to lock away drummers who can’t play in time.

You can get a feel for the differing sounds of our rooms by checking out our new Room Sampler.

Above all, The Crash Factory is a real studio. We have a nice big vintage analogue desk, not a little box of twiddly knobs and flashing screens. We didn’t rent a house and glue foam on the walls. We didn’t put a computer and some speakers at one end of a barn. We spent months building walls and ceilings and floating floors, calculating the frequency response of the dimensions of our rooms, lugging bale upon bale of itchy, scratchy rockwool up our stairs. We made it and we love it, and we think you will too.

As well as the main studio rooms, there is a client lounge kitted out with comfortable seating, TV and 8-bit NES console (of course we have Mario 3) and a near-perfect library of video cassettes. The lounge also houses our client workstation where you can mess about with tracks outside the main studio, come up with drum loops and keyboard lines or write a review of any of the cool videos we have.

By all means, bring your gear – It’s probably the best way to get your sound after all. We do however have a full backline of great gear for you to use.