Colorado Recording Studios to Bring Your Songs To Life

You don’t have to be a musician to know that recording music is crucial. It captures and immortalizes the songs, albums and other releases we love to listen to, which end up serving as nostalgic time capsules for us later in life. There are more tools available nowadays to make do-it-yourself, homemade recordings sound better than ever, but Colorado is also home to several reputable recording studios that have been behind some of the most popular releases out there.

While studios are usually focused on helping artists track, mix,and master their songs, many of them also offer rentable rehearsal spots, with isolated, treated acoustic spaces, separated control rooms, and sometimes more.

Whether you’re looking for a studio that’s close to where you live or you want to skip town for a few days to record your masterpiece, here are nine of Colorado’s most-acclaimed recording studios that can help you bring your next big hit to life.

Blasting Room

Fort Collins
One of Colorado’s most notorious recording studios is the Blasting Room in Fort Collins. It was founded in 1994 by Bill Stevenson, who is an icon in his own right as the principal songwriter behind punk legends Descendents and as the drummer for Black Flag and ALL. The Blasting Room has built up a strong legacy in Colorado ever since, and has been behind several of punk’s biggest and most seminal releases. While there are way too many releases recorded here to name even the most famous, the studio’s work includes notable recent and older releases from Rise Against, the Yawpers, Dead Pioneers, Propaghandi, Gregory Alan Isakov, NOFX, Rise Against and, of course, Descendents.

Band Cave Studios

Denver
Under the helm of lead engineer Collin Ingram is Band Cave Studios, a Denver rehearsal space and recording studio that has built up quite a list of recent releases across punk and other rock genres, folk, hip-hop and so much more. The studio was opened in 2015, and it does just about everything in recording, including production, tracking, mixing and mastering. Recent releases recorded here include albums and singles from Elway, Big Dopes, Porcelain Twin, If You Drive By and Kyle Emerson.

Colorado Sound Studios

Westminster
Colorado Sound Studios has been open since 1977, along the way amassing a huge list of national and international acts that have come to Colorado to record near the Mile High City. From Colorado’s own Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats to the Lumineers and other high-profile clients such as Eminem, Mumford and Sons, Gogol Bordello, Halsey and so many others, Colorado Sound has some truly wild credits in its discography. So it’s hardly a surprise that this studio has been making beautiful music for almost fifty years.

Deep Down

Fort Collins
The studio known as Deep Down is one of the newer ones on this list, having been opened in 2024 by engineer and Gleemer frontman Corey Coffman. Nestled in an unassuming Fort Collins neighborhood and tuned by Mathias Schlachter, the studio has been at the forefront of some of today’s top releases across shoegaze, emo and other rock-adjacent indie genres, including releases from bands such as Prize Horse, Modern Color, Soft Blue Shimmer, Seer Believer and a bunch of others.

Evergroove Studio

Evergreen
Evergroove Studio in Evergreen was founded in 2006nby multi-platinum engineer Brad Smalling, who offers a range of recording, production and mastering services, along with a focus on spatial Dolby Atmos mixing. The studio has worked with outfits across genres ranging from indie folk to metal, with a little bit of everything in between. Several Colorado acts have cut records at the studio, including iZCALLi, itchy-O, Church Fire, Altas and Soulive, while Smalling has also worked with such noteworthy national acts as Story of the Year, JID and Carly Simon.

Friendly Collective Studios

Denver
Friendly Collective Studios was founded by Denver musician ego n friends and videographer/photographer Christian Hundley, and it acts as a creative collective as well as a recording studio that welcomes artists from Colorado and beyond. One of Friendly Collective’s most enticing offerings is its residency program, which will buy you access to top-tier gear, six months of studio time, and entrance into events hosted by the collective.

Green Door Recordings

Englewood
Green Door Recordings was started by brothers Felipe and Ruben Patino in 2010, not long after Felipe’s time working at the Blasting Room in Fort Collins, where he gained a host of knowledge and experience. Originally located in Aurora, the studio has since relocated to Englewood, and the two have worked with Denver bands such as Muscle Beach, King Rat, Almanac Man, State Drugs, Suicide Cages and more.

Side 3 Studios

Denver
The Grammy-nominated studio known as Side 3 Studios was founded by CEO Adelio Lombardi in 2011. Now boasting a massive team of producers and engineers, the studio has worked with huge music industry names such as Post Malone, Vince Staples, Lil Wayne, Justin Bieber, Ed Sheeran and more.

World Famous Studios

Lakewood
Last but not least is World Famous Studios in Lakewood, a studio space run by engineer Pete deBoer that’s notably home to the biggest Neve console in the Rocky Mountains. The studio was established by deBoer in 2001; since then, the producer and engineer has landed several credits with Denver metal bands Blood Incantation and Spectral Voice, along with national acts like Les Savy Fav, Wayfarer, Faceless Burial and many more.