Address: Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, United States
Fiounder: Bob Clearmountain
Current Status: Active
Mix This! is the personal studio of world-renowned engineer and producer Bob Clearmountain. Built in 1994 in Los Angeles, Mix This! was designed from the ground up as a purpose-built mixing environment that reflects Clearmountain’s philosophy of precision, clarity, and musicality. Equipped with both vintage analogue hardware and the latest digital technology, Mix This! has become one of the most respected private studios in the world, serving as the sonic base for Clearmountain’s legendary mixes for artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, The Rolling Stones, and David Bowie.
By the early 1990s, after decades working in major commercial studios such as Power Station and Electric Lady in New York, Bob Clearmountain sought to create a controlled acoustic environment tailored specifically to his workflow. Working with acoustician George Augspurger, he designed Mix This! in the Los Angeles hills with perfect room balance, linear frequency response, and seamless integration of analogue and digital systems.
From its inception, the studio was built around an SSL 4000G+ console, the same model Clearmountain used on many of his classic albums, complemented by a carefully curated collection of vintage compressors, reverbs, and effects units. Every element, from cabling to monitoring, was optimised for transparency and repeatability, allowing Clearmountain to reproduce the sonic quality of his major-studio work within a personal environment.
Over the years, Mix This! has become a destination for mixing top-tier records and live projects. The studio’s hybrid analogue/digital configuration allows for fast recall while maintaining the warmth and punch associated with classic SSL mixes. Beyond album work, Mix This! has hosted film, live concert, and remastering projects, continuing Clearmountain’s tradition of precision and excellence.
In early 2025, a devastating fire broke out at Mix This! in Los Angeles, causing significant damage to the control room and much of the original analogue equipment. Fortunately, no one was injured, and many of the studio’s most valuable items, including Bob Clearmountain’s archive of master tapes and custom hardware, were safely recovered.
In the months that followed, Clearmountain oversaw a meticulous rebuild of Mix This!, restoring the studio to its exact original specifications while upgrading its digital infrastructure for modern workflows. The newly rebuilt Mix This! reopened later that year, (in a ne wloacation) combining the warmth and character of its original design with state-of-the-art acoustics and next-generation mixing technology, reaffirming its status as one of the world’s premier private studios.
