About Us

With over 40 years producing music, we are in our custom designed and built State of the Art, 1,000 square foot facility including:

4 uniquely designed Isolation Rooms, spacious Control Room with comfy couches and our Lounge with all the amenities including XBOX, TV and fridge.

 

Instruments & Equipment

 

  • 6' grand vintage 1925 Ivers & Pond piano
  • Gliga Upright Bass
  • full studio Yamaha / Zildjian drumset & Alesis Electronic Drum Sets
  • Guitars & basses by Guild, Yamaha, Line 6, Epiphone, Ibanez & Fender
  • Keyboards by Roland and Yamaha
  • Microphones by AKG, Rode, Shure, Beyer, Audix, CAD, Audio Technica, Nady & Sennheiser
  • Tascam DM-4800 64 track digital mixing console,
  • Sonar Platinum with plug-ins effects & synths by Native Instruments, Lexicon, Roland, Antares, TC Works, Ultrafunk, BBE, ApulSoft, Sony, Drumcore, XLN and more.
  • Individual 16 channel digital headphone mixers so you can dial in your personal headphone mix.

 

Rates

 

  • Our hourly rate is $65 per hour which includes an engineer.

 

 8 Hour Special

 

  • Book 8 hours for only $439 includes Engineer, 5 Master CDs
  • Weekends available!

Staff

Brent Godin

 

Brent Godin is a Producer/Engineer at Night Train.  Brent has worked with artists such as Brendan Asquith, Zac Mac Band, Quantum Paradox, Logan Piercey, drummer Frank Hegyi and guitarists Scott Card & Russell Kniffin.  Brent is also a musician and talent scout for Black Cloud Productions.

Zac Cataldo

Zac Cataldo was raised on The Beatles and Barry Manilow although he has forgiven his parents for the latter. At fourteen he formed Straight Edge, a ten-piece Boston rock band (that's 4 girl backup singers and a cello) and played local clubs like the Rat and the Channel (gone but not forgotten). As the Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist, Zac figured out how to keep beer bottle throwing to a minimum. As the band's Babysitter/Manager he learned the ins and outs of the local music scene, and could be seen pawning tickets in Kenmore Square to a show (back then you paid to play). To put himself through college, Zac worked as a mobile and radio DJ, in the days when you needed a van to lug around your "record collection".

Truthfully, Zac started playing in a band when he was thirteen that recorded in his Math teacher's 8-track basement studio. Although he'd like to forget about most of the music, it was this eye-opening experience that sparked his interest to become a sound engineer. At 15, Zac began interning at Boston's 24 track studios like Newbury Sound and Pyramid, working with producers like Drew Townson and WBCN's Lisa Traxler. Zac was highly sought after and worked with 80's bands like The Next, Bang, and Anastasia Screamed because he would gladly run off to the corner store for coffee and guitar strings (or dirty magazines for a certain bassist who will go nameless).

In the early 90's, Zac relocated to L.A. (why - he still can't tell you) and returned with memories of egocentric music executives, corporate power lunches, and earthquakes. Upon his return in the mid 90's, Zac started Night Train Studios, a digital recording studio, when digital was still a bad word. Today, Night Train Studios is a busy place where musicians from heavy metal act Silencio to jazz diva Barbara Dolan go to record with Zac at the helm.

Zac's credits include: the voice and music behind Disney's High School Musical and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody book series. The music & voice of the audio books Who Were The Beatles, Who Was William Shakespeare, Who Was Claude Monet. The music for "The Zack Files" by Dan Greenberg audio book series. The music for the Newbery Award winning book "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman. The music for the book "Baby" by Patricia MacLachlan. The music for the Scholastic book series "Rainbow Magic" by Daisy Meadows. The music & voice for the audio book "Stone Fox" by John Reynolds Gardiner.

Zac has Produced the Barbara Dolan Group, Baza, Have At It, Marmalading, Jason Fickel, Francesca Reggio & Blue Shift, Paul V, Stilburnin', Slap That Cat, The Lascivious Trio, Asley Jordan, Wastleand Within, Fever, Workin' Stiffs, The Pass, Montgomery Clift, Insigniya, The Cranks, Ramble On, Patrick McKenna, Ben Cesare, Shaun Merrill, Deep C, Scott Dockendorff, Booty Vortex, Sunshine Riot, The Heat Moon, Acoustic Curve, Meet The Day, Too Many Drivers, Steve LaBonte, Victoria Dehesa, Mirichle, Katie Sullivan, RTP Racer, The Dij, Sidpa Bardo, Chiemi, Dread Rocks, Phylo Ray, Leslie Hitelman, Depths of Underground, P.J. Shapiro, Lisa Locke, Logan Piercey, Errata, Gardy Gonzalez, The Zac Mac Band, Sounder, Offensive Jill, Interfere, Aontaigh, 3rd Man Factor, Good Night Sheffield, Run 4 Cover, Levity, Red Box Panic, Jason Baron, Jeff Wolfsberg, Paul Hamilton & Operation Guillotine, just to name a few.

Contact

The best way to contact me is by email at zac@nighttrainstudios.com or via the Contact Form.

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