About – Mystic Valley Studio

Studio owner Alex Garcia-Rivera is a platinum awarded recording engineer / producer. Before beginning his career in recording, Alex was a drummer with a career spanning over 3 decades. He had played in dozens of bands, most notably American Nightmare, Shelter, Piebald, Saves The Day, Cold Cave, and Bloodhorse. He has also been a drum technician in the Boston area for over 20 years, shaping the drum sounds for many notable albums, including those by Converge, Madball, Mutoid Man, and a Grammy award winning album by High On Fire.

Mystic Valley Recording Studio is Boston's boutique analog recording studio, located just north of the city, in an unassuming location in Medford, Ma. With purpose-built, soundproof, sound-treated rooms and a focus on great sounding gear, it is one of just a handful of 100% analog recording studios in the world.

If you’ve never worked with tape before, you might be surprised at how flexible it can be. You can track a full band “live”, or you can lay down each instrument separately as overdubs… whatever makes sense. For those that don’t know, punching-in/out is indeed possible on tape, and we can even splice two or more separate performances together.

*Although Mystic Valley is primarily an analog studio, outside engineers and bands may bring digital sessions here for tracking and mixing with use of our Mytek and Motu AD/DA converters. Additionally, tracking of drums, bass, guitar, etc, can be done in analog and transferred to digital to be finished elsewhere. Digital projects may also be sent in for remote mixing.