Markosa Studios · Roeland Park, Kansas
Make your record in a room built for music.
Mark Thies began recording in 1982 and has made music his full-time work since 1996. Markosa Studios was purpose-built from the ground up, with floating floors and walls and beautiful wood and stone work.
- 1982Started recording
- 1996Went full-time in music
- 2005New facility opened
- 2,000Square feet, purpose-built
The Studio
Four rooms under one roof
A 2,000-square-foot facility, opened in spring 2005 and purpose-built from the ground up with floating floors and walls and beautiful wood and stone work.
Live room
A sunburst wood ceiling, stone accents and a grand piano.
Drum room
Stone walls, a drum kit and windows into both the live room and vocal booth.
Vocal booth
An acoustically treated booth for vocals.
Control room
Mark's console, monitors and keyboards, with couch seating.
Services
How Mark can help
Recording, engineering and production at Markosa Studios in Roeland Park, Kansas.
Studio sessions
Record in a purpose-built space: a live room, a separate stone-walled drum room and a vocal booth, connected by windows.
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Audio engineering
Mark is the lead engineer. He has been recording since 1982, moved from tape to digital early, and was asked on several occasions to lecture on digital audio in the UMKC recording program.
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Music production
Mark has been producing since his basement-studio days, when people heard what he was making and asked for help with their own projects. He's a bass player and songwriter, too.
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I've built a place that's comfortable and relaxing yet state-of-the-art technically. It's hard to make beautiful music in ugly surroundings.
— Mark Thies, owner & engineer
About
About Mark
Mark Thies started down the path of the recording engineer in 1982 as a budding bass player and songwriter. A Tascam four-track cassette recorder soon felt too confining, and the upgrades came quickly: an eight-track reel-to-reel, a 12-track beta machine, then a rack of DA-88 digital recorders.
His own music came first, but people soon heard what he was producing in his basement studio and started asking for help with their projects. After five years of working full-time as a printing manager and moonlighting as a musician and recordist, Mark made music his full-time work in 1996.
He enrolled in the recording program at UMKC, where he was asked on several occasions to lecture the class on digital audio. Everything was moving from tape to computer at the time, and Mark was an early adopter of Cakewalk software. As the business and his family grew, he built a 2,000-square-foot studio onto the back of his home in Roeland Park. The new facility opened in spring 2005.
A musician as the lead engineer is a beneficial thing for your next project.
Photos
Inside Markosa
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Contact
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