Rancho De La Luna is a recording studio in Joshua Tree, California that was founded in 1993 by Fred Drake. David Catching became Fred Drake's partner at the Rancho in 1994. After Drake's death in 2002 to cancer, the studio was operated by Drake's collaborators Anthony Scott Mason, Ted Quinn, Dean Chamberlain, Billy Bizeau and Fred Burke until 2004 and has since doubled as Catching's home, where he has been known to cook for bands and allow them to stay at the house for weeks at a time while they record.
Notable bands and artists to record at the Rancho include Midget Handjob featuring Keith Morris, Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, earthlings?, Daniel Lanois, UNKLE, Twilight Singers, Masters of Reality, Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Victoria Williams, The Duke Spirit, Eagles of Death Metal, Mark Lanegan, Dave Grohl, Desert Sessions, including sessions with PJ Harvey, Hulk, Sparta, and recently, The Giraffes, Arctic Monkeys, Smith & Pyle and Bingo's Dream Band.