The Right Track

The Right Track was a recording studio in Cleveland, Ohio, at which Trent Reznor was employed as a recording engineer and recorded demos and songs for Nine Inch Nails' debut album, Pretty Hate Machine.

History

The Right Track opened in June 1987 in the Film Exchange Building at 2106 Payne Ave. in Cleveland. [1] Bart Koster, the owner, was a regular customer at Pi Keyboards and Audio, where Reznor was working as a salesman. He found Reznor to be skilled, intelligent, and funny, and thought he could easily pick up recording engineering, so he hired Reznor before he even finished building the studio. [2] The studio also employed NIN associate Sean Beavan.

Koster changed the name of the Right Track to Midtown Recording in January 1992. [3] It later moved from Cleveland to a home basement recording studio located in Westlake, Ohio, that Koster still operates today.