Eric Blomquist

New control room feels oh sooooo inviting! Thanks to everyone who has given us positive feedback on the new digs. We love that you’re as excited as we are! If you want to check it out in person, drop us a line. We’d love to see your faces and hang!! Big thanks to @bobisraelphotography for capturing the spaciousness and warmth. Bonus live room and lounge pics, because we love our space.

Another BIGGEST of thanks to @icombs ! He’s been here since the beginning. Always giving a helping hand, loaning some gear (SOOO MANY guitars, amps, pedals, mics, etc… ), or sharing a fun new tip or trick. Whether it’s painting, helping wire up the new patchbay, giving Margie some pets, or just giving us some well deserved shit, he’s been behind the scenes helping. He’s also the one who got Kevin his internship a lifetime ago!! We literally can’t thank Ian enough.⁣ Love ya buddy.⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Also a big thanks to:⁣ ⁣ @friendcenzio_dogatelle for helping lay some new floors in the A studio.⁣ Making the place look so fresh and so clean. ⁣ @stevebosmans for an extra hand with making our new speaker stands. He is also generously housing some fun guitar amps at the studio for us to use! We love new toys.⁣ ⁣ Speaking of new toys! Check out our new Neumann m49v! Anyone wanna cut some vocals?!?

🙏🙏🙏🙏𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞 is the only way to summarize how we feel about starting fresh in 2026.⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Turns out when you remove a 14 foot, 72 channel, 1500+ pound console, there’s a ton of work involved in getting the studio back up and running. Who would’ve thought??⁣ ⁣ So so many people showed up, and helped us get this place back up and running. ⁣ ⁣ EVERYTHING was wired to that console……….. So, that meant a full rewiring of the studio.⁣ ⁣ ⁣ @mrfurst wanted to help right off the bat. We needed new patch bays (which is how a studio connects to everything… think old telephone switch board). Chris immediately offered a couple extras he owned, and even had all the spare parts to get the wiring process started ASAP!! Not only a great engineer, but hell of a friend. Thanks Chris.⁣ ⁣ Where are we gonna put the new gear? We decided to make some other functional changes in the room, so we needed some new racks to go around our new console. We asked another good friend for some help.⁣ ⁣ @w.deblaey was our first and only call for making our new custom desk and gear racks. He met us at the studio, scoped out the room, asked so many detailed questions, made designs, and then completely exceeded our expectations. His attention to detail ensured everything not only looked great, but was functional and engineer-friendly. Every knob is perfectly within reach. Friend, bassist, woodworker, and really thoughtful human. Thanks a million Will.⁣ ⁣ We have many more people to thank, but that will be for tomorrow. :)⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Oh yeah… The new console is a beautiful API 1608 mkii w/ automation. We’re grateful for that too.

𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲! 𝐖𝐇𝐎 is Sun Dog Studios!? 𝐖𝐡𝐲 are you seeing this post?? Eric and Kevin are no longer part of “RiverRock Studios”. You might have noticed RiverRock hasn’t been posting as of late, and with good reason! With the changing of the seasons we have some very exciting news! 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 —————and most obvious —————the new name: “𝐒𝐮𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐠 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬.” We love sun, dogs, and Sun Dogs. Kevin is joining longtime owner Eric as studio partner! The new partnership felt like the perfect time for a fresh name. 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 - after 15 years, we are finally retiring the SSL console. We have something brand new and exciting to share with everyone…. but we will post more about that soon! Over the last 6 weeks we’ve been getting all the pieces in place to unveil our “new” studio, still conveniently located at 1121 Jackson St. NE. We’re really really excited to show off the new space, and to keep making incredible music with incredible people! Drop us a line and say hi — we’d love to make music with you. More updates over the next few days, but for now, there’s a teaser in the last picture. Stay tuned everyone!!

San Diego, we adore you. Your weather, the ocean, endless amounts of kid friendly activities, and the constant sun shining on our faces. We enjoyed a few runs by the ocean, one Greta mama swim in the brisk 65 degree salt water, so much zoo and safari park fun, one memorable visit to In and Out and lots of meet ups with my high school guy bestie, Barrett and fam.

Ten years of loving Logan and Greta! Cheers to family adventures yet to come.💕🎊🍾🥳🥰🎉🥹🎈

Adaptive Wilderness Within Reach @adaptivewilderness invited Logan to come up to Superior National Forest at the edge of the BWCA to go dogsledding this weekend and boy did we have an epic 48 hours. We even stayed at an accessible cabin @northofnorthresort . Cast Outdoor Adventures @castoutdoor was our amazing guide and has experience bringing people with disabilities on their adaptive sleds into BWCA. We’re so fortunate to have untouched wilderness at our fingertips in Minnesota. Life slows down up here and it is glorious.

Christmas came early! ✨Logan received a hot tub through Make A Wish! 🙌So naturally we ventured out in the MN winter tonight for a dip. The air temp was feeling 22, but the water was a balmy 100 degrees. Logan laughed continuously and especially loved the water feature faucet for the sensory input and the jets for relieving his tight muscles. We foresee lots of MN nights in the hot tub! So many people came together to make this possible. @shopbachmans Came out to prepare the area, @callheromn hooked it up with our silly old house electric, @valleypoolsandspasmn helped multiple times with teaching and delivery and saving things from freezing (story for another day), @marquisspas for their partnership with MAW, and it was all because @makeawishmn believes that kids with medical complexities and disabilities deserve to live their best lives. So much Christmas magic ✨is in the air tonight in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 🎅 🎄

We put together a “Nashville” style band for the day. There are 5 time slots available to help bring your song from acoustic to full band production. We asked some of our favorite musicians who have loads of recording experience to be your band. For time slot availability, pricing, and all other questions, send us a DM FOR MORE INFO! #singersongwriter #recordingstudio #livesession #minneapolismusic

A smooooth jam to commemorate the end of summer. Eric on production and instruments. Sequential Prophet 10 and Ana2 synth for the win. Fender Jazzmaster and Jazz bass. And a real good old Tom Tucker snare sample! #synthwave #synthesizer #synth #prophet10 #80svibes #80smusic #1980smusic #saxophone #ana2 #smoothjazz #recordingstudio