Open Doors
Whether you are chasing your first mix or your thousandth, there is a seat at the console for you.
— A Studio for Everyone
Everyone Belongs Here
Retro Recordings XR was built with a diverse audience in mind. From professional producers to curious music fans, from audio engineering classrooms to bedroom beatmakers — this virtual studio opens its doors to everyone. The mixing console doesn’t ask for credentials. It just waits for your hands.
Live Room — Grand Piano
Control Room — LLC 4K G
Outboard — Vintage Processors
Your Session Starts Here
What Happens When You Walk In
Every person who steps into the studio has a different reason. Here is what the room becomes for each of them.
You Import Your Stems. The Console Does the Rest.
Bring your own tracks into the studio, route them through a vintage console, dial in analogue EQ and compression, and hear what decades of recording history sound like on your music. No plugin emulation — you are standing behind the real thing.Multi-track import · Channel strip processing · Mix export
The Textbook Comes Alive.
Patch an Galaxy Sound SF-2A compressor. Drive a Never 1073 preamp into saturation. Watch signal flow happen in front of you — from microphone to tape machine to monitor. This is how engineers learned before everything moved inside a laptop: by touching the gear.Signal flow · Gain staging · Hands-on mixing
VR That Means Something.
You have done the roller coasters and the zombie shooters. This is different. Walk through a recording studio built in Unreal Engine 5 with the kind of detail that makes you forget it is virtual. Pick up a guitar, sit at the piano, explore rooms designed by someone who has been obsessing over this for eight years.Unreal Engine 5 · Room-scale interaction · Creative sandbox
Racks You Have Only Seen in Photographs.
Racks of 76-Fighter compressors. A pair of Pushtone EQs glowing warm. Grandchild 670 limiters with every tube modelled. The outboard collection in this studio would cost millions in the real world. Here, you can open every unit, flip every switch, and hear the difference each piece makes.Vintage outboard · Detailed modelling · Interactive racks
Play, Record, Share — From Inside the Studio.
Pick up the acoustic guitar in the live room. Sit at the grand piano. Set up behind the drum kit. Record your performance, stream the session to your audience, and invite collaborators to join in real-time. No green screen required — the studio is the backdrop.Playable instruments · Session recording · Live streaming
A Classroom Where Every Student Has a console.
Stop explaining signal flow with diagrams. Put your students behind a console. Let them patch a compressor, set a threshold, and hear the result in real-time. Virtual studios scale infinitely — no booking conflicts, no insurance, no gear that breaks after a semester.Virtual classrooms · Scalable access · Experiential learning
Inside the virtual daw-less studio
Ever dreamed of walking into a studio packed with a classic vintage console and awesome outboard gear?? Now, you can!
This isn’t a plugin, it’s not on your laptop, desktop or hardware. It’s a fully immersive XR studio, built for artists, producers and gearheads like myself. Virtually touch the faders, twist the knobs, push the buttons, patch in an effect, walk around, feel the room and bob your head while doing it. Try that in your current DAW. It’s like loading a mix of Capital Records, Sound City, Abbey Road or Electric Lady on your private virtual music holodeck. And (as) soon (as possible), it’s dropping on SteamVR, Metastore or anything else I can get it on really. So yeah—get ready to produce music like they did 40 yrs ago
The Studios That Shaped Music
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Follow the devlog, join the Discord server, and be among the first to get early access when the studio doors open.
This project has been over eight years in the making — and the community is what keeps it going.
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