Tree & Booms is a studio in Charlottesville, VA built around the idea that great music happens when an artist feels comfortable and inspired enough to take risks. Producer, mixer, and musician Matt Wyatt works directly and intentionally with every artist – whether it’s through recording, mixing, or a full production – in a space that feels more like a hi-fi living room than a commercial facility.
The Room & Gear
Tree & Booms is an acoustically treated, sound isolated, 700sf room with 14’ ceilings and a classic collection of vintage amps, keyboards, and other instruments. The signal path is hybrid analog-digital and includes vintage Neve preamps, Burl converters, Inward Connections summing, and hardware Tube-Tech, Highland Dynamics, API, and Retro tube compressors and equalizers pulled together over years of studio work, selected for warmth and depth of tone.
Production & Recording
If you’re tracking at Tree & Booms, collaboration often happens through production, arrangement input, co-writing, and/or direction with session musicians. Or sometimes a project just needs an engineer to get out of the way and record. That’s ok too. Recording and production rates are shaped around your specific project. Session musicians are available upon request.
Mixing
Whether recorded in-house or not, your music will be mixed through boutique analog gear and a musician’s ears. Some projects just need a clean and compelling mix, while others want more creative or sound design style input. Rates and turnaround time depend on the scope of the project. Link to examples of recent mix work here.
For more information or to talk specifics related to your music, contact mattwyatt@treeandbooms.com
LOCATION
The studio is located in a wooded setting 3 miles from downtown Charlottesville, VA.
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)
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)
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)
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)