ECHO MOUNTAIN RECORDING

Echo Mountain has literally been my second home for the last 11 years. In the beginning years, I spent most of my waking hours working to get this fully analog and digital, residential studio off the ground. Over the last 11 years the studio has hosted such clients as The Avett Brothers, Widepsread Panic, Band of Horses, War on Drugs, and Zac Brown, just to name a few. 

Today, the studio is still the base of operations for all things I do, but it is a tight run ship thanks to our talented family of engineers, managers, and interns. I am eternally grateful for this place because it's not only been a launching pad for my career in music, it's connected me to some of the best friends and colleagues anyone could ever ask for. 

ABOUT ECHO MOUNTAIN RECORDING

In 2003, Steve Wilmans left California and moved to the mountains of WNC to build his dream studio.  He found the perfect place in an old church on the edge of downtown Asheville.  The Church was upfitted into a state of the art recording studio while preserving as much of the original decor as possible.  The antique wooden doors were split down the middle and soundproofed.  The original wall panels were reclaimed and used around the newly built control room, designed by George Auspurger.

In 2006, Steve purchased the neighboring building, which originally housed the Asheville Salvation Army, and built the API Studio.  The tracking space is split between two levels, with the control and isolation rooms on the lower level and a large tracking room on the middle floor.

In 2024, it was time for the next chapter. We purchased 68 acres outside of Asheville and started designing a studio to fit our original vision, a mountaintop destination studio named in honor of Steve’s dog, Echo: a future sanctuary for musicians and artists to create their best work.