Corey Miller, Travis Moore and Tim Walker operate the Round Table Recording Company, located at 6345 Carrollton Avenue in Broad Ripple Village [E3 on map]. Travis and Corey are Chief Engineers/Producers at RTRC while Tim (their studio manager), co-founded RTRS with Travis. They recently discussed their interest in music and how they met.

Tim explained, "I was in a band, but my business career had taken a different direction. I wanted to get back and play music. You listen to music as a consumer, though once you start to really listen... that got me excited about it. To get my musical ideas down, I wanted to record. That's how I met Travis and Corey at (Azmyth) Recording School. They were instructors for me."

Corey mentioned, "I think it was kind of standard. You're a musician first. I was always in a band and was always appointed to handle the recordings and went to school to study (at The Recording Workshop in Chillicothe, Ohio.) I was four years old when I started using headphones and would listen to my parent's vinyl records. I was probably critiquing records when I was four."

Travis recalled, "I mainly enjoyed music as a kid and always would dance to it. As I got older, I became fascinated with how people reacted to it. I became a disk jockey, but I got tired of playing other people's music. That was kind of all just intertwined. I decided to become a musician and bought a drum machine when I was in high school. Once I realized this was something that I wanted to do, I went to school for it (at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida). Corey and I met in 2006 when he was working at the Lodge Recording Studio and I interned there. We've been friends ever since and have worked together on a bunch of projects, whether it has been producing music or writing for national TV."

They started planning how they could work together. Tim said, "We toured the Jack White recording studio in Nashville and spent a few days there visiting the city. We started talking about what we wanted to do in 2015-2016. After that, we just developed a relationship. We tried a way to develop and expand by getting into the production studio. We're very different, but we are like-minded and similar in how we collaborate with fellow students."

The future studio space was the prelude to a musical epiphany. Tim exclaimed, "It was just a miracle! We were looking at different properties and thought we found one that was suitable. A real estate agent said, 'It was more space, but I think you should look at this building.' We walked in the door. This was it!" Travis added, "I think we were originally thinking of Carmel, but we didn't think it was an option."

That discovery has composed new opportunities for them. With three different recording studios (A, B and C) on the premises, they provide options for local bands, solo artists, regional and national acts visiting town, in addition to podcasts and voice actors. Their Diamond Room (Studio A with 1,600 square feet) can accommodate a choir or string section with a grand piano available, while The Raven Room (Studio B with almost 1,000 square feet) and Studio C, which offers a smaller, intimate setting for bands, solo artists, single vocal and acoustic artists, respectively. A description of each studio is found on their website, https://thertrc.com at these links: https://thertrc.com/studio-a, https://thertrc.com/studio-b and https://thertrc.com/studio-c.

There is also a kitchen/musician lounge, classroom and conference room that provide additional space for musicians to receive input and playback from Studio A & B. Group and private lessons, in addition to workshops can be offered in their classroom writer's lounge. Their conference room can accompany production meetings as well.

With these amenities, RTRC can provide unique opportunities for local music producers and artists with home studios that need a professional studio for a larger project. "There's a lot of things that people can't do in their home studio," Tim noted.

They each reflected on the rewards of their work. Corey mentioned, "For me, it's helping artists achieve their vision and dreams they have with what they want to do with their music. We have a pretty wide array of friends who are talented engineers. We wanted a place that we could share with others."

Tim cited, "It's about the collaboration and relationship with Corey and Travis in working together and creating this dream together. The other thing is that all of us have is a passion for education. The audio program has let us bring that passion to a student's love of music and dream of recording and in making them a credible, competent professional as they make that first step in their career. Corey has spent a great deal of time with our education programs and makes it more challenging for students in a more collaborative, streamlining way and focusing on the things that matter most as audio producer and engineering. Those are the two passions that drive us - engineering and recording."

Travis noted, "The most rewarding thing for me is that when someone walks in and they come to me with an idea that they want me to produce. I see it from the ground up and now we are producing Billboard Top 10 songs and taking a complete nobody and turning them into somebody, making them a household name. We're full-time educators, but also working full time in teaching. We wanted to provide a service."

For more information, visit their website, www.TheRTRC.com, e-mail: booking@TheRTRC.com or call (317) 981-5351.

For solo artists, bands and related artistic projects, musicians/entrepreneurs Corey Miller, Travis Moore and Tim Walker can help make your musical ideas a reality at the Round Table Recording Company in Broad Ripple Village.