About Imirage SoundLab
Imirage SoundLab is the longest running commercial studio in the state of Nevada. It opened September 29th, 1982, under the name “Axe Trax.” In 1998, Tom Gordon teamed up with owner Dr. Lawrence Davis to give the studio a facelift and a new name. For nearly a year designer Bill Furman transformed Axe Trax into Imirage. January 2000 the studio reopened with its new name, gear, and look. Since then, it has put out several hundred physical and digital albums and singles, offered recording arts classes, done some remote & charity recordings, audio restoration from vintage formats, plus audio post production for several short and feature length films.
It’s a mid-sized room originally tailored for local artists to track their material. Now it’s fully equipped for national quality tracking, mixing, and mastering. Acoustically the control room was painstakingly built to create an optimum listening environment. The live area consists of one semi-live large room, one completely live iso room and one nearly completely dead iso room. The three-room treatments give us many tracking options for a facility of our size. See floor plan HERE.
Our centerpiece console, a Euphonix CS2000, was formerly a film score desk that was used on over a 100 film scores including “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, “The Wolf of Wall Street”, “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” as well as albums for Alanis Morrisette, Seal & Robbie Robertson. We have a fun selection of house instruments and outboard gear, plus the biggest mic collection in the region. That’s why call it a Sound Lab. A place to experiment on your music. See the equipment list HERE.
The place is just dripping with “vibe”! Autographs related to famous music & film, a venerable museum of historic audio pieces, and just fun toys, games and knick knacks for the heck of it! Come see for yourself. Book a tour with one of our ENGINEERS and we’ll show you what we mean!
National Clients include:
ABC
Universal Pictures
Paramount +
Hallmark Channel
Whitesnake
The Beach Boys / Mike Love
Creedence Clearwater Revisited / Doug Clifford
Lionel Ritchie and Diana Ross
G Love and Special Sauce
E-40
Shock G (Digital Underground)
Arabian Prince (NWA)
Mickey Thomas (Starship)
Dillinger Escape Plan
Intronaut
Sleater-Kinney
Frank Funaro (Cracker)
Brian Landrus Project
Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles
Raz
American Bandmasters Association
College Band Directors National Association
Dark Glass Electronics
Black Potatoe Entertainment
Michael Martin Murphy
Lee Greenwood
Film and TV work include:
Role Models
Endless Love
Wife Swap
Milli Vanilli Documentary
Nowhere Nevada
Three Tickets To Paradise
Desert Shadows
Escape of the Dragons
Charity Work Benefiting:
JDRF: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Native Forward Scholars Fund
Nevada Aids Foundation
Washoe County School District Music & Arts Department
Awards for Work Completed:
Local & Regional Clients include:
A Ghost for All Seasons
A Year from Monday
aka Keen
David Ake
Alias Brass Quintet
All About Me
Eric Andersen
Anura
Appalachian Space Train
Aren & the Neighborhood
Matthew Axton
John Bankhead Inc.
Lily Baran
BBQ Dadies
Nick Bentz Quartet
Blasphemous Creation
Blue Turtle Seduction
The Blues Monsters
The Bonfire Set
The Boogie Monsters
Bourns Productions
Adriana Bravo
Nicolas Bullentini / St. Nick
Buried
Matt Bushman
C-Dash
Liam Kyle Cahill
Max Case Trio
Pat Casey / BBQ’d Salad
Tony Cataldo Quartet
Changing the Design
Chris Clark Quartet
Amy Clawson
The Complex
Comstock Movie Studios
Ed Corey Trio
Kate Cotter
Sarah Coyl, Angelo Monroy & Max Case
Cranium
Criambique
Darabello
Davis
Days No Different
December
Delusions of Grandure
Dirt Communion
Dorcia
Jim Duvall & the Gauchos
Eat At Joe’s
EEA (Engstrom, Epstien, Ake)
Egress
Element
Buddy Emmer Group
Bryon Evans Films
Evenground
The Exchange
Fall Silent
The Fantods
Flannel Fish
Jakki Ford
Freak Hayride
Danielle French
Ce Ce Gable & Ken Pettiford
Greyscale
Gypsy Moth Productions
Rick Hays American Steele
Hear Me Arizona
Hellbound Glory
Homage, the Lion Killer
The Home Team Band
Zack Howarth Quintet
Idiot
Monique Jade
Adam Jaffi
Ryan James
Jellybread
Derrick Julian
Darcy Kathleen
Keller
Keyser Soze
Luigi Board
Eric Lundholm
Made For Shelter
Erika Malone
Mama’s Trippin’
Danny Marona
Max P.
David May
Gabriel McDowell
Niall McGuinness & the New World Jazz Project
Ryan Meagher
Mic Rob
Mnemonic
Mojo Green
Moondog Matinee
Moonlight Hoodoo Review
Whitney Myer
Native Root
The Novelists
Jason Owens Trio
Mathew Owens
P Dub
Brother Dan Palmer
Richie Panelli / Apprentice
Erika Paul
Vincenzo Pellegrino
Emilia Pierce
The Pretty Unknown
Prince Da P
Pufferbilly
Miki Rae
Raksha Paksha
Reno Modern Brass
Reno Jazz Orchestra
Rob Ford Explorer / Greg Lewis
Johnny Rolling
Rolling With the Punches
Gena Ruschmeyer
Cindy Sabatini
Sacred Moon
Jan Savage & Bob Braman
Lexi Scatena
Janine Elise Scott
Seasons of Insanity
Seedless 10dencies
Tristan Selzler / Reno Jazz Syndicate
The Sextones
Sierra Sweethearts
Mike Sion
Six Mile Station
Smokin’ Bulldogs / Geoff White
Sol Jibe
Spirit Wind
Stamp Collection Suicide
Tyler Stafford
Clayton Stansfield
Steel Breeze
Steve Dave
Dave Strawn
The String Beings
Supernatural Heroes
Christopher Tapia
Teez
Ten Ton Newman
Surely Temper
Cami Thompson
Trevino
Twice
Uncut
UNR “The Collective” & Jazz department
UNR Guitar Ensemble
UNR Theater Department
UNR Wind Ensemble
Vincent Valentino
Elise Weatherly
Weight Of the Tide
Western Roads
Wild Eye Releasing
Wheatstone Bridge
Whiskey Dawn
Whitton
Yelsa
Young Presley