The Rubens Bunker Down
“I FEEL HAPPIER RUNNING AROUND CHECKING IF A MICROPHONE IS IN PHASE. IT KEEPS ME MORE INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS”
Two weeks before Run the Jewels’ producers were due to fly out from New York to work on The Ruben’s latest record, the right hand channel of Will Zeglis’s console master bus stopped working. Talk about stressful. He’d already been anxious about what the New York producers would think of his space, now he had to find a tech to work on his Soundtracs IL3632 console, quick smart. “I ended up getting sick from the stress thinking the whole hub of the studio has gone down,” said Will. “At first I had problems even getting a tech to come look at the console. Then he couldn’t fix it. Eventually, at the final hour he came good and got it to work.”
Will isn’t just a studio co-owner with his friend Tim Duric, he’s also bass player for The Rubens. The studio is The Rubens’ home turf, and where they recorded almost all of their latest album LO LA. It’s a WWII bunker on the family estate of Tim’s ex-girlfriend’s father. An “artistic science-fiction writer,” described Will. It was filled with rubbish, but the deal was if Tim cleared it out, they could jam and do whatever they wanted in there. That was over 10 years ago, and slowly but surely Tim moved the junk. Once that was done, between his carpentry skills and Will’s studio know-how, they turned The Bunker into a vibe-y studio.
