About ES Sounds
Tayvian Johnson and Avery Pearl both grew up in East Moline, and both landed at Augustana College, two years apart- the practical choice for two guys from the area. Avery had already built a studio in his college house, and that's where the brothers ran their first paid sessions.
Those sessions were the start of something bigger. They decided the next step was building a place of their own.
That became ES Sounds. The brothers opened the studio in East Moline in January 2019, built around a simple idea: a home base for artists who'd had as hard a time finding a studio, a scene, and a community as they did. The goal was never one artist carrying the whole Quad Cities scene alone. It was building a network.
6+ years later, that's still the mission: three rooms, engineers on site, and a space built by two brothers who knew the space needed to exist.
Instruments and Equipment
House instruments and recording equipment are included in the room rate at no additional
charge, unless noted otherwise.
Studio B — Backline
Drum kit
Congas and hand percussion
Deagan vibraphone
Yamaha Clavinova digital piano
Yamaha portable keyboard
Eden Metro bass amplifier
Peavey Bandit 112 guitar amplifier
Fender FM15 DSP guitar amplifier
Line 6 Spider III guitar amplifier
House acoustic guitar (electric players should bring their own to plug into the house amps)
JBL EON10 G2 and EON615 powered PA speakers
Studio A — Recording Equipment
Mojave MA-50 and AKG P220 condenser microphones
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 interface
PreSonus Studio Channel tube preamp, compressor, and EQ
JBL 3 Series MkII monitors
Studio C — Recording Equipment
Shure SM58 dynamic microphone
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 interface
JBL LSR305 monitors
Two-camera video setup
All Rooms
Studio One and FL Studio pre-installed, or dock your own laptop and take your session files
with you.
