Presto! Recording Studios is located in

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, and run by brothers

Mike Mogis Mike Mogis is an American producer/mixer/engineer and multi-instrumentalist who owns ARC Studios (Another Recording Company) in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, Omaha. Mike, along with his brother A. J. Mogis, A.J. Mogis, founded Presto! Recording Stud ...

and A.J. Mogis. The studio began in the brothers'

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, Nebraska basement and around 1995 moved to the basement of a Lincoln home. First known as Whoopass Recording Studio, the name was later changed to Dead Space Recording. When the brothers moved the studio to its current downtown Lincoln location, they found a vintage Presto brand vinyl recorder left behind by the studio's former occupant, from which the current name was taken. Because of Lincoln's plan to dismantle most of the streets around the facility in the distant future, Mike Mogis is planning to relocate Presto! Studios to a indoor

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, Nebraska. The new studio will be co-owned by Mike Mogis and

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. A.J. Mogis has not yet decided if he will be involved.Lazy-i: Column 62 -- Mogis Speaks (but not to me)
at www.timmcmahan.com

Artists who have recorded at Presto!

Record labels that have worked with Presto!

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