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Toronto rap studio booth at Lush Recording Studio — Sony C800G, purple LED wash

Toronto Rap Studio

A rap studio in Toronto for
hip-hop, R&B, and every flow —
record and own the rollout.

All genres, all styles. This is what we do.

The Sony C800G. Punch-in loops. Engineers who comp in the pocket. Walk out with the song AND the full multicam session — you edit, you post, you flood your own feeds on your own terms.

Lush Recording Studio is the Toronto rap studio for artists who cut their own records, their own way. We're not a band-tracking room. We're a vocal booth tuned for the rap take — the Sony C800G on the mic stand, the Neve 1073SPX on the preamp, and engineers who know the difference between a trap flow and a drill pocket. Walk in with reference tracks, walk out with a mixed hook and the full multicam session to cut your own clips for the rollout.

Why Lush for Rap

Built for the rap take.

Punch-in loop as default

Bar-by-bar drop-ins, not restart-from-the-top. Your engineer is already set up for punch-in workflow before you hit the booth.

Trap, drill, boom-bap fluency

Our team has cut every rap subgenre in this room. Trap doubles, drill ad-libs, boom-bap pocket — the engineer already knows the editing pass you want.

Beat prep handled

Send your beat before the session and we'll load, BPM-check, and set markers in the session file so you're tracking the second you walk in.

Fuel for the content flood

Optional multi-cam captures you in the booth while you cut — the full session, yours to keep. Cut your own clips, or add edit packages at checkout. One block, one invoice, full rollout material.

The Setup

The rap chain, front to back.

Every rap take in this room runs the same signal chain elite studios run — Sony C800G through a Neve 1073SPX preamp, into a Tube-Tech CL1B compressor, through a UAD Apollo x8 interface. No stage compromised. No "budget" substitute pretending to be the real thing.

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Sony C800G

The rap-industry mic. The one on the records.

02
Neve 1073SPX

Preamp character that defined a generation.

03
Tube-Tech CL1B

Musical dynamics. Keeps the take alive.

04
UAD Apollo x8

Studio-grade conversion. Session-ready files.

Who You'll Record With

Hip-hop engineers, not generalists.

Every rap session at Lush is run by our senior engineer team — hip-hop and R&B lived in, punch-in workflow as a default, and the editing pass already in muscle memory. We route your session to the engineer best fit for the record based on genre, subgenre, and block length.

Pricing

A-List Quality, Streamer Level Production — at a working-artist rate.

$75/hr

Vocal recording with an in-house engineer. 2-hour minimum. Every session on the same Sony C800G chain.

$400

6-hour daytime block (10AM–4PM). Best rate for mixtape / EP tracking.

Want us to edit? Edit packages (short-form clips, BTS reel, grid stills) are available as add-ons at checkout.

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FAQ

Rap sessions at Lush.

Do you have a punch-in loop for rap sessions?

Yes. Our engineers run punch-in loops as a default for rap tracking — drop in, bar by bar, no rebuilding takes from the top. The team runs fast punch-in workflows in Pro Tools and Logic, so your flow stays in the pocket while the session moves.

Can I book a single track or do I need a full session?

Both. The minimum booking is a 2-hour block at $75/hr, which is plenty for one track plus rough comps. If you're cutting a mixtape or EP, the 6-hour daytime block at $400 (10AM–4PM) is the move.

What mic do you use for rap vocals?

The Sony C800G — the same microphone behind the records you've been playing for years. It runs through a Neve 1073SPX preamp into a Tube-Tech CL1B compressor and a UAD Apollo x8 interface. It's the chain rap engineers build their rooms around.

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Rap session, mixtape, EP — drop the details and we'll route it to the right engineer on the team.

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