It started out as a traveling lounge, moving from place to place, city to city, state to state...but always remaining "The Mambo Room". The Mambo Room was wherever Tim Lacy could string up some Christmas lights, plug in a blender and listen to some great music. The Mambo Room is, and continues to be, a state of Mind.

             Eventually, Tim's love affair with the music business took over and he decided to take The Mambo Room a step further. It was no longer just a scene...it was now a place to get things done.

            Leaving  New York City in 1996, he settled 100 miles north in Woodstock. A good portion of the late Eighties and early nineties was spent working with Producer Paul O'Neill on several recordings for Atlantic records. "I was in a baby band then, we were signed to Leber-Krebs mgt. Paul was an up and coming Producer.  We worked together on 2 Savatage records, "Hall of the Mountain King" and "Gutter Ballet" and finally the First "Badlands" record with Jake E. Lee and Ray Gillen. I was basically a studio rat. I worked all the time in studios all over Manhattan. It never really dawned on me how much production exposure I was getting back then. I spent alot of time at "The Record Plant" on W.44th street in NYC where Paul would record most of the bands he produced." Lacy also worked as an In-House sound engineer for SIR studios in New York from 1991 to 1994. "If you are a musician looking to get ahead, you gotta pay your dues at SIR. Every great musician rehearses there, from Sonny Rollins to Roberta Flack, and from Radiohead to White Zombie. That was quite an experience! I was constantly honing my chops. When I wasn't mixing sound for bands like "INXS" or "David Sanborn" I was sitting in with whoever was crazy or desperate enough to let me jam with them."

                      The first version of the Mambo Room was located in Woodstock NY. It was an 8 track Yamaha digital recorder set up in 2 rooms in the basement.  "I had no money because my wife, Liz, and I had just bought a house. I had made sure to let her know that whatever house we purchased I was going to set up a recording studio. My idea was to start the recording process and make the rest up as we went along". The Mambo Room was finally completed in early 2001. Danny Cartwright and Colin Almquist were the first to sign on as the rhythm section. "Hypnotica Del Sol" was recorded in the Winter of 2001 and released in the Fall. As crude as it was, "Hypnotica" did manage to catch the attention of a few people. Enough so that a 2nd CD emerged (Autodive) and 3rd one on the way (Blisterene).

            The Mambo Room has since moved its headquarters to New Paltz New York. It has expanded into a self indulgent, totally overblown media production facility. It incorporates a state of the art recording facility as well as a video production house. Future projects include an indie motion picture and more recording projects. Stay tooned! 
             
 

Recorder: AKAI DPS24 Fully automated 48 track digital audio workstation.

Software: Pro-Tools M-Powered 7.3, Adobe Audition 1.5, Izotope Ozone3 mastering software.

Preamps: Symetrix 302(4),Studio Projects VTB-1(1),M-Audio DMP3(1), DBX-286A (1),ART TUBE-MP(1), Presonus TUBE-PRE (1) ART Pro Channel(1), ART MPA Gold(1)

Mics: Shure:  KSM27, SM7, Beta52, SM57, Beta57, PG57 (1 ea.)
        Rode:  NT5 (matched set) NT1A (2)
        Audio Technica; AT3035 (2),ATM63HE (1),ATM650(1)
        AKG: D112(1)
        Nady: RSM-2 Ribbon Mic (1) SCM980 (2)
        Electro Voice: N/D468 (2)
        Sennheiser: MD421 (2)

Monitors: KRK K-Rok, Behringer TRUTH B2031P.
Power Amp: ART SLA-1. 
Guitars: Various Fender Strats, Danelectro DC35, Peavey Milestone "P" Bass, Fender DG-7 Acoustic.
Drums: DW Pacific CX series, Zildjian & Sabian cymbals.

Guitar Amps: Ampeg VT40, VT22, Fender Bassman 10, Music Man HD130 head, Epiphone Valve Junior head. Various cabinets
Keyboards: Casio CTK-691,
Pedals: Marshall Shredmaster, Boss Metal Zone, Dunlop Cry Baby Wah, Dunlop Rotovibe, delays, flangers etc.etc...


RATES: If you have to ask...........

COMMENTS: Just don't stink the place up!

OUR MOTTO:  Get your own damn studio!