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[[Image:therighttrack.jpg|thumb|Pete Koster, Trent Reznor, and Bart Koster at 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. [https://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16014coll5/id/37426/rec/27]  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. [https://www.thefader.com/2013/09/23/nine-inch-nails-oral-history-interview] The studio also employed NIN associate [[Sean Beavan]].

Koster changed the name of the Right Track to Midtown Recording in January 1992. [https://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16014coll5/id/44012/rec/1] It later moved from Cleveland to a home basement recording studio located in Westlake, Ohio, that Koster still operates today.