Which Miami studio helped record the Eagles album Hotel California?

Criteria Studios in Miami helped record the Eagles’ Hotel California.

The album was made between March and October 1976, with sessions divided between Criteria Studios in Miami and Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles. Producer Bill Szymczyk favored recording in Miami after becoming uneasy about living on a fault line in Los Angeles, so the band and producer compromised by using both cities.

Criteria was an important South Florida recording facility and provided the setting for much of the album’s work. The sessions were not always quiet: Black Sabbath were recording Technical Ecstasy in an adjacent room, and the noise reportedly interrupted the Eagles. “The Last Resort” had to be recorded again several times because of sound bleeding through from the neighboring studio.

The answer is sometimes confused with Record Plant, which also appears in the album’s recording credits. The most precise response to a question asking for the Miami studio is Criteria Studios; Record Plant was the Los Angeles location.