TallCat Studios - Recording Studio & Video Production - Phoenix, Arizona

Gretchen Bell

I think it's a shame that more people don't post their experiences here. tbh, I think everyone wants to keep this place a secret. The amount of talent and quality that is produced and housed in this studio is unbelievable. Hands down the absolute best studio recording experience I've ever had! Tom has the most impeccable ear for quality and refuses to produce anything less. He might be opinionated, but that's what makes him so valuable. He pushes clients to be their best and brings out the finer details that can make or break any production. If you are looking for a place to take your music to the next level, look no further. You will definitely get more value than you bargained for!

Trenchh

I was trying to get booked to record these guys never called me back they don’t be answering their phones this company is poor at communication I don’t recommend anyone to waste their time with this company.

Wayne Wright

Avoid this studio at all costs! I live in Los Angeles and wanted to record some tracks with a bass player who lived in Phoenix. Tom wanted a deposit upfront for 10 hours, so I paid him, set up time for the session, and drove 6 hours to Phoenix for the session. We had reserved a block of 4 hours, but when we showed up to record, Tom said that he had another gig in Northern Arizona and would only be available for an hour or so. We did what we could and could never pin down Tom for another session while I was in town. He would make promise after promise and never follow through. This whole fiasco cost me a lot of time and money, including the drive and two nights in a motel. The bass player also kept hounding him for studio time after I left and only got the run around. I would sue Tom in small claims court, but frankly, it's not worth the time or the aggravation. I wish that I could rate TallCat Studios with negative stars, but that isn't an option. This is the most unprofessional studio that I have ever worked with.

S K

A friend and I had met Tom after asking for a tour of the studio. He was kind and answered all of our questions on that first visit and offered a reasonable price to record as well as to produce a track. After a few months we decided to start recording and a rough copy of the song was sent to Tom for him to produce for us.
He agreed to do so for a great price and so we paid him upfront and after a couple of reschedulings (from both parties) I was finally able to make it in to record a rough copy of the vocals.
In the studio everything seemed to go well aside from a couple of technical difficulties that Tom was able to fix after several attempts.
I informed him that the song had to be produced and recorded by the end of the month (due to a deposit being put down on a music video for the song) and he agreed to expedite the service. He did tell me he'd be out of town the following week but he'd start working on it as soon as possible and assured me we'd meet the deadline.
After a week and a half I contacted him asking for a progress report, but no response. My friend tried calling him, texting him, emailing him, everything he could to try and get a hold of him to no avail.
The deadline was drawing near for the deposit to be forfeited and the beat wasn't even made yet let alone the final vocals even being recorded. Tom didn't even give us the courtesy of responding to our many messages.
If he even just told us he was unable to do it by the deadline and refunded us, we could've found another studio to record the song.
Thankfully I was able to work with the music video studio who didn't forfeit the deposit and they even referred us to a different studio who was able to complete the song in less than a week.
I had such high hopes for Tall Cat Studios because of the great reviews and good first impression of Tom, but unfortunately not was all as it seemed.
I'm hoping Tom behaves more professionally with future clients and doesn't end up scamming anyone else, whether it's intentional or not.

Dub City

I've recorded in a good amount of studios and TallCat is among the best! Tom is awesome at his job and I would recommend recording here. Atmosphere is great and they take their time to make sure the sound is what you want. If you ask for feedback, Tom will be honest which is great! Looking forward to doing more projects with them.

Josh Hester

I blame myself for hiring TallCat for a serious video production. I am out-of-state and needed a portion of my project shot in the Phoenix area. I contemplated expanding my production budget to travel there myself to supervise. Boy should I have. They projected plenty of confidence on the phone. In our industry, what I was asking of them was not terribly complicated and they seemed unconcerned about their ability to deliver on the request. I provided them sample footage. I provided them detailed technical direction. I even provided them a lighting plot. My clients in this case included several well-respected public officials. The events that followed are hard to believe. They became difficult to get a response from in the days following the shoot when they were supposed to be delivering the footage. When they finally did deliver a week later, it was clear why it took so long. It was shockingly bad. By any standard, it was not even close to a professional product. Astonishingly, when I shared this view with them, they denied it and somehow found a way in their conscience to blame me and describe it as my fault. To this day, they have refused to provide me a refund of their required up-front fee for the work even though my client and I are unable to use the footage in our project. Unbelievable. In short- they have no idea what they're doing when it comes to professional video production. They project confidence on the phone, require an up-front fee, and then deliver unusable garbage and describe it as your fault. No joke. Again- don't be like me. I blame myself for ever making the decision to do business with TallCat Studios.

Ryan Portwood

I am a repeat customer at TallCat and there are multiple reasons why: Tom is a very professional and friendly guy who is versitile with the genres of music he can work on. Want to work on a boom-bap style rap song like I did? He's got you covered. Maybe something a bit more radio friendly? He can do that too! Maybe you're a singer going for a sound in a completely different genre? He's got that nailed down. With quality equiptment, an experienced & efficient engineer, and an overall quality studio session I would definitely recommend TallCat to people looking for a recording studio

Matt O Martin

The most unprofessional place I have ever been in my entire life. I called to book a session, he required me to pay the full amount upfront for 2 hours, which I did. The session was supposed to be from 1-3 o’clock. Then he texted me asking if we could do 2-4 instead and I said that’s fine. I showed up 15 minutes earlier. I knocked, no one answered. I texted you je guy, he didn’t reply so I called him multiple times and finally reached him. He said “my guy was supposed to be there blah blah blah.” He showed up almost an hour late. So I asked him for a refund, then he start saying “I’m sorry, I’m sorry I’m sorry” that’s all I heard. So he didn’t want to give me my refund so I ended up taking the session.

We did two tracks, he barely mixed the first one and the second one, he didn’t even have time to touch it. Remember I had already paid him the full amount. So he asked if he could send the track through email to me the next day, since he didn’t have “time” to get my stuff done that I had already paid for. He finally sent it the next day at 9pm (my bed time). When I listened to it, trash trash trash.

Overall, this is place is the most unprofessional I have ever been to. Place didn’t clean, some lady came to clean the place DURING THE SESSION? Who does that? All of the dusts be flying right in left in my face. I wish I could give this place 0 star.

DO NOT GO THERE! ALL THEY SEE IS THE MONEY.

I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS PLACE.