Tree & Booms offers recording, mixing, production, and mastering services.
Located in Charlottesville, VA, Tree & Booms Studio is a unique recording studio owned and operated by musician, recordist, producer, and mix engineer Matt Wyatt. About the studio Wyatt says, “I built Tree & Booms to be a collaborative recording environment that feels comfortable, professional, and welcoming. I deeply value the opportunity to support musicians with their recorded work and the creative practice that feeds it. I experience recording as an inspiring endeavor, one that offers we musicians a chance for meaningful insights around our playing and our sound. I hope for Tree & Booms to be a place where artists leave not only with an exceptional recording, but also having had a positive and supportive experience through the whole process.” The studio values are rooted in a clean, creative space, excellent room acoustics achieved through extensive acoustical treatment, a live room recording approach, and a great sounding analog signal chain. The workflow is hybrid analog-digital with house instruments that are fully functional, largely vintage classics (Mellotron, Hammond Organ, Wurlitzer, Rhodes, etc).
As a recordist, mixer, and/or producer, Wyatt has worked with many artists including Night Teacher, Lowland Hum, Marie Tatti, Nicole Mitchell & Ballake Sissoko, Dillingham, Jack Tierney, Thomas Gunn, Amber McBride, Ryan Trott, Beleza, Dear Black Gold, Jaewar & Vibe Riot, The Pollocks, Frontier Diplomacy, Ted Coffey, David Wax Museum, Golden Hour, Wells Hanley, Eli Cook, Vevlo Eel, Orion Faruque, Joel Streeter, Farewell Friend, MacMillan Publishing, UVA Department of Drama and Dance, Unsettling Grounds (App curated by Marisa Williamson), WarHen Records, FPE Records. Wyatt released the solo album Exist Everywhere in 2025.
LOCATION
The studio is located in a wooded setting 3 miles (6 or 7 minute drive) from downtown Charlottesville, VA.
Gear: preamps including vintage Neve 3115 (1970’s from a Melbourn console), Chandler Limited, API, etc; conversion by a Burl Mothership; microphones by Coles, Neumann, Pearlman, Royer, Beyerdynamic etc; and various outboard EQ + compression by Inward Connections, Retro, API, Highland Dynamics, etc.
PEOPLE SAY…
Tree & Booms is one of my favorite places on Earth to be. The studio is a cornerstone, both for all kinds of recording purposes and for cozy, quiet, self-caring workspace. It's a perfect symbiosis of high artistic value and functionality. Matt is incredibly skilled across multiple instruments and implements, plus he's an effective communicator- a self-reflective, emotionally intelligent, introverted people person who knows first hand the challenges that an artist can face when putting their "baby" out into the world.
-Marie Tatti (Singer-Songwriter and Performance Artist)
In the process of working with Matt on my first record I began to regard my own music with more discernment, attunement, and respect; a shift I will always treasure. From the (welcomed) workshopping of songs to the final stages of the mixing process, Matt was thoughtful, talented, respectful, meticulous, passionate yet utterly professional, and extremely knowledgeable about a wide range of topics regarding the making, practice, and recording of music.
-Lilly Bechtel (Night Teacher)
My music has never sounded better and more authentic than when it is filtered through the production mind, heart, and soul of Matt Wyatt. Everything from the setup of his studio to his unorthodox recording philosophy to his accepting and loving attitude make for an expansive and adventurous creative climate. My best vocal takes ever were recorded lying on my back on the floor of his studio. He is open to trying everything to help the music come out in the most unobstructed way possible. His ideas always feel fresh and experimental but also never contrived, always perfectly in tune with what is trying to emerge.
- Wells Hanley (Pianist, Composer)
Working with Matt has always been such a pleasure. He creates an environment that is easy to create and collaborate in and his space, gear, and experience are all top notch and on par with any of the larger studios I've worked in. Thanks for always being an excellent engineer and simply a great guy to work with!
- Tucker MacDonald (Songwriter)