Vintage King Nashville Launches

Music City has a new place to lust for gear – and then take it home.

This sonic HQ is Vintage King Nashville, a retail store and demo studio established by new/vintage recording equipment retailer Vintage King Audio. Now open for business, the store follows in the footsteps of Vintage King’s flagship Los Angeles location, which opened in 2012. Both stores are set up to allow gear to be demoed and compared in a studio environment, while the local vibe and studio culture are integral to their design.

VK tapped Nashville studio designer Carl Tatz to design and tune the control room, which is outfitted with an API 1608 console with automation and features custom furnishings by Sound Construction. The control room utilizes Tatz’s PhantomFocus System and the Carl Tatz Signature Series products from Auralex Acoustics.

At the Vintage King Nashville showroom & demo studio (L-R): Clint Culberson, Kurt Howell, Chad Evans, and Sarah Miller with Tom Menrath, Head of VK Strategic Development. (Photo Credit: CJ Hicks)

Vintage King Nashville is located 2826 Dogwood Place in the heart of the Berry Hill district, a.k.a. the 2nd Music Row, which is home to almost 40 recording studios – including Blackbird, House of Blues and Alex the Great – and music publishers. Read on for more details, direct from Vintage King:

Bringing together a veritable greatest-hits from Vintage King’s website, the new Nashville location offers up a variety of classic and current pro audio gear in a beautiful retro-inspired facility. Customers will find monitors, mics and outboard processors as well as studio essentials like analog tape, cables, and hard drives.

Brands that VK is well known for like Shadow Hills, Barefoot Sound, Neve, API, Retro Instruments, and others are all present and on display, giving the Nashville audio obsessed the opportunity to try out gear in a friendly, relaxed environment.

For the musicians in town, Vintage King Nashville is stocking a hand-picked selection of boutique guitars, amps and pedals plus analog and virtual synths.

Visit vintageking.com/nashville for more details.

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