Avast! Recording Company

Avast! Recording Company
Founded1990 (1990)
FounderStuart Hallerman
StatusActive
GenreRock, grunge, hard rock, metal
LocationSeattle, Washington, U.S.

Avast! Recording Company is a music recording studio in Seattle, Washington.[1][2] It was established in 1990 by producer Stuart Hallerman,[3] who was soundman for Soundgarden and involved in the grunge movement coming out of Seattle at the time.[4] The first CD released by Avast! was Crime Pays When Pigs Die by Nate Mendel and Eric Akre's Christ on a Crutch project,[2] and the company has since worked with a number of other artists, including Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, Built to Spill, Steve Fisk, Bikini Kill, and Supersuckers.

The so-called "Avast! Classic" studio, located at 1325 N 46th St., operated through 2008,[5] and the present studio was set up in 2005 at 601 NW 80th St. and features two separate units: Studios A & B. The use of this building as a studio dates back to 1978, and some rooms are still as they originally were, while others have been modernized.

  1. ^ "Home". Avast! Recording Co.
  2. ^ a b "Stuart Hallerman: Avast! Studio", Tape Op, Book 2, ISBN 0977990303, 2010, pp. 154-155
  3. ^ "Stuart Hallerman | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
  4. ^ Yarm, Mark (September 8, 2011). Everybody Loves Our Town: A History of Grunge. Faber & Faber. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-571-27650-9.
  5. ^ Pecknold, Aja (July 31, 2007). "Best Escape From A&R Reps: Stuart Hallerman". Seattle Weekly. Archived from the original on January 30, 2016. Retrieved November 10, 2015.