Three studios
under one roof.

Panda West

This is the room. What You Don’t See, Colourmeinkindness, The Finer Things: if you know a Panda drum sound, you have heard this live room.

A 14-foot ceiling, acoustics designed by Jeff Hedback, then built and obsessively refined by Sam Pura around the records made here. The "Drumbrella" moves the kit from tight and controlled to wide open without touching a mic stand, and the amp collection lives here too, which is how the wall of guitars gets built.

Panda West is also built for extremely fast tone decisions. A custom iPad control system can switch between eight amp heads and eight cabinets running simultaneously, letting us audition combinations instantly instead of spending the session repatching gear. That keeps tone hunting creative. The performance stays identical while we move through radically different amps and cabinets until we find what actually belongs on the record.

Baby Panda

Every room at Panda is calibrated to the same standard, so work moves around the building without losing quality. Baby Panda handles everything that doesn't need a large live room: vocals, DI guitar and bass, writing, programming, editing and overdubs.

That calibration is the point. A vocal cut in here sits alongside one cut in West without anyone hearing the difference, which means a session can run in parallel across the facility instead of queueing for one room. Solo artists and producers use it as a home base; bands use it to keep a record moving while the big rooms are working.

One of India's biggest voices

Shreya Ghoshal in Baby Panda

Shreya Ghoshal recorded in Baby Panda with producer and engineer Sanjoy Deb, who produced the track and engineered the session.

Watch the session →

“Great session... incredible gear.”Sanjoy Deb

Sleep here.
Finish the record.

Most studios end at the door. Panda has beds, a shower, a fridge, a microwave and a coffee machine, so a band travelling in doesn't burn budget on hotels or lose the thread driving back and forth every day.

You wake up where you're working. If an idea shows up at 2am, the room is right there and the building is soundproofed, so nobody's asking you to stop. Fremont has a huge amount of food nearby and every delivery option you'd want, so the only thing you have to think about is the record.