Indigo Ranch Studios

Indigo Ranch was an American recording and mixing facility located in Malibu, CA, founded in 1974 by Richard Kaplan and Mike Pinder, who sold his share of the studio a few years later to Kaplan and Michael Hoffman the studio's business manager, that passed away in 1990. In the first two decades of the studio existence it had an eclectic mix of artists recording there such as Neil Diamond, Olivia Newton-John, Megadeth, and Neil Young, in the mid-nineties Ross Robinson, then young music producer, began recording there and the studio became the epicentre of the genre later dubbed "Nu Metal", with groups such as Korn, Soulfly, Slipknot, and Limp Bizkit recording their debut albums there, Robinson stopped recording there in the beginning of the new millennium and the studio then fell on hard times, Kaplan sold the studio in 2005 and in 2007 the facility was caught by the wildfires that occurred in the region and burned to the ground. Some of the engineers that worked there where Bart Johnson, Chris Brunt, Chuck Johnson, Rob Agnello, Kevin Bosley and Zak Girdis.