Mobtown Studios is an artist-friendly recording and mastering studio owned and operated by Mat and Emily Leffler-Schulman.

We moved the studio from Washington, DC to downtown Baltimore in 2006 with the intention of providing a warm living room environment in which local artists and bands could record affordably and comfortably. In April 2008, construction was finally complete and we opened our doors to the Baltimore music and recording community.

The studio is located in a light-filled 1890s rowhouse in Baltimore’s historic Charles Village neighborhood, near Penn Station and the Station North Arts District. Our 1000 square foot facility was masterfully planned by acoustical engineer Julien Robilliard and employs a variety of innovative and modular acoustical treatments to mold your sound.

Mobtown occupies a niche between the sterility and prohibitive costs of large commercial studios and the limited flexibility often found in home studios. (While we firmly believe that amazing things can happen in a basement with a laptop, nothing can replace a finely tuned room run by an engineer with a trained ear when you want the experience and sound of a professional studio.)

We offer an organic mix of vintage and modern in both our gear and our approach. We believe that the war between analog and digital is a bogus one in an industry that is continuously evolving. Each has its place and Mobtown bridges the gap as a hybrid studio.

We also love to find new possibilities in unconventional instruments. Whether it’s an African xylophone, a Quaker oatmeal box or a century-old pump organ, if it can make noise, it can make music.

Mat Leffler-Schulman

Producer and Owner

Mat has spent the better part of his life fascinated by manipulating and recording sound. It began over 15 years ago with a Tascam 4-track in the basement and continued with a BS from the renowned Music Recording program at Middle Tennessee State University. He’s a trained drummer, plays synthesizers and takes great pride in his collection of homemade theremins and tube preamps. He listens to an eclectic and diverse range of music and has produced/engineered/mastered everything from field recordings of Metro trains to indie rock to klezmer.

Eric Fuller

Engineer

Eric began recording live music 10 years ago and shortly thereafter began experimenting with multi-tracking. Since then he has been recording and mixing music at his small studio in Riverdale, MD, and more recently has honed his craft here at Mobtown. His skills as an arranger, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist are helpful at all stages of the recording process, as is his love for blending seemingly disparate sounds and styles. As a musician, he seeks an ever-deeper knowledge of music theory, but is careful not to let it impinge on his soulful, expressive guitar style, which can be heard in recordings by his various bands from the DC metro area (Serious Lee, Deep Sea Diver, Communist Bakesale).