We built this place by hand.
From the Big Leaf Maples that grew on this land, milled and dried and planed ourselves. Around an 18th-century English cathedral door we’d been saving for years without knowing why. With friends who believed in what it could become.
The result is Temple of the Trees — a recording, mixing, and mastering studio in Seattle that doesn’t look like a studio, doesn’t feel like a studio, and doesn’t sound like anything you’ve heard come out of a studio.
Lady Gaga said “I love the gothy vibes” and shot her Super Bowl commercial here. Tape Op called it one of the coolest recording spaces they’d ever been in. American Songwriter called it the spookiest studio in the world.
We just call it home.
Step inside.
Our Story
We’re Joe and Karyn. We make music, we record music, and we built this studio ourselves because we couldn’t find the room we were looking for.
Not as a business decision — as a calling. During the pandemic, on a wooded property, we cleared the land, milled the trees that stood on it, dried the wood for months, and hand-cut every plank. We hung an 18th-century English cathedral door at the front and built the rest of the studio to live up to it.
We’ve been running Orbit Audio in Pioneer Square for over two decades. We play music together in Society of the Silver Cross. We know what it feels like to walk into a room and immediately want to make something. That’s the room we were trying to build.
We just wanted somewhere that felt like ours.
It does. And now it’s yours too.
CLIENTS
Some of the artists who’ve called this room home.
Lady Gaga · Macklemore · Puscifer · Jorja Smith · Car Seat Headrest · Steel Pulse · Greensky Bluegrass · Flatland Cavalry · King Dude · Skeletor · The Long Winters · Duckwrth · The Accüsed · Fastbacks · Society of the Silver Cross · Blood and Sun
And many more
Contact Us
206-381-1244
templeofthetreesstudio (at) gmail (dot) com