What is the Hideout Studio?

Whether you are looking to record a few songs or your next large project, The Hideout is a great alternative recording studio. Advantages to recording here are the comfortable rooms that are indicative to a relaxed enviroment that enables you to achieve a great performance while recording.

Currently we can record 24 discrete tracks at the same time and with editing software to cover over 100 tracks. This makes it possible for your entire band to do a live performance in one pass. This helps you capture your bands dynamic. This style of recording is a way to accomplish more in one day at a great value.

Of course other traditional recording techniques can be applied to your tracking as well. This depends on your ideas and budget. This flexibility enables you to decide on the studio rate.

Since we are musicians that own and operate the Hideout, we are passionate about your experience here, and can help with your production on many levels if required.

The Hideout Studio is a place focused entirely on the final process of making music: recording. The Hideout Studio's power duo, Al Chizmar and Jim Sullivan, have nearly 40 years of combined and diverse experience to make musicians sound incredible and feel understood in the process.

Who is Al Chizmar ???

Owner Al Chizmar established himself in the Seattle area, hailing from the east coast. As a "hands-on" sound professional, his decades of experience as a live monitor technician have made him the expert in making musicians sound the way they feel they should.

Beginning in the late 70’s Al has worked with live sound crews supporting national acts in large venues. Today, Al owns and manages The Hideout Studio, where he rolls up his sleeves daily to ensure his clients have the equipment, the space, and the attention they need to sound their best.

Who is Jim Sullivan ???

Jim Sullivan is the engineer brain and musician heart of The Hideout Studio. Jim's origins as a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist from Pasadena, California, have lead him down a path of sound beginning in the early 80s, when old-school analog was the norm, yet the dawn of digital recording would soon happen upon the music scene.

Highly skilled in both forms, Jim has recorded over 200 bands, reading the environment and the acoustic values of a space, experimenting with equipment and devising innovative ways to create what sound musicians are after.