We are recording engineers, producers and musicians who’ve dedicated our life to crafting and recording great music.
We exist to bring musical ideas to life. We want you to do it in a comfortable setting, surrounded by instruments and toys that inspire. We want you to have a flexible headphone mix, lighting to fit the mood, excellent gear, and inspiring spaces in which to get great takes.
We recognize that what comes out of the studio reflects on us as recording engineers, mix engineers and producers as much as it does on you as a musician. We care about every aspect of the recording.
Matt Parmenter - Recording engineer, producer, musician
HISTORY
Matt is a Grammy nominated, Emmy, and multiple Austin Music Awards winning producer and engineer. His focus is on coaxing the best performance out of the talented artists he works with, and making great mixes with tracks both recorded in-house and sent in from outside studios. He’s a hardcore gear geek who loves to find new ways to put things together to find new sounds in old and new gear. With over twenty years of experience producing, recording, mixing, and mastering music for albums, film, commercials, and art installations, he’s prepared to enhance any style of music that he works on. Keyboard player, bassist, lover of good coffee and science fiction books.
Matt started his recording career with a pair of boomboxes in his parent’s basement, learned more about recording at Lansing Community College, and moved to Chicago to attempt to infiltrate the Industrial music scene. He performed with Colla Destra and met and worked with members of 13mg and Blue Eyed Christ, ran sound for one of the first web broadcast concerts with Invisible Records artists, and met many of the Wax Trax! crew and artists during his time there. After six years of working in Chicago with mixed success, he moved to Cincinnati, where he founded original home of Ice Cream Factory Studio around 2002 in an old warehouse. In a former life, the warehouse was the home of Sterling Ice Cream, thus the name. After several years in this wonderfully strange art collective space, he moved the studio to Austin, with high hopes of getting into in the music scene as a bassist, keyboardist and recording engineer. Performances and connections happened very quickly, and by 2014 he had moved the studio into its current space, a studio formerly used by …Trail of Dead, Paul Barker (Ministry, Lead Into Gold), and a few others.
In 2017 Ice Cream Factory and Satellite Studio decided to combine forces. The addition of Satellite’s gear has set Ice Cream Factory at the forefront of Texas recording studios, with a complete tracking and mixing facility filled with extremely rare and desirable vintage microphones, compressors, a vintage Studer console beside a custom Tree Audio 16 channel console, a wide variety of outboard preamps and EQs, top of the line Burl A/D D/A conversion and monitoring, as well as an enviable selection of amps, keyboards, drums, basses and guitars.
In 2024 Ice Cream Factory Studio was awarded Austin Chronicle Music Awards “Best Studio in Austin”, and continues to work with hundreds of Austin area artists, as well as tracking, mixing and mastering for clients from all over the U.S., Canada, and Germany.