[6] Grammy Award-winning music studio engineer and producer Andy Wallace mixed tracks for Helmet and Rage Against the Machine,[2] as well as many others at Quantum in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

[2] In 1991,[7][8] Tim Gilles (nicknamed "Rumblefish")[9] and his then wife, Julie, as well as Joe Mahoney and Tom Aldi started Big Blue Meenie Studios in the basement of his house,[2] in Hackensack, New Jersey, primarily using an 8-track recorder.

After several years of growing success and a positive reputation among musicians in the area, the group began closing down their original locations and made arrangements to buy the former Quantum Sound Studios in 1998;[8] on February 2, 1999, the building was officially purchased.

Big Blue Meenie has worked exclusively with Apple and uses their software Logic Pro for mixing after analog recording.

Since the facilities inception in the 1980s, all genres of music have been worked on; although under Quantum, more pop and R&B artists were mixed as opposed to many of the bands that record at Big Blue Meenie today, which are mainly more rock or metal oriented groups.

[17] Over the years, the facility on Paterson Plank road has been renovated several times, and the business has grown from about $2000 of gear used by Gilles in his basement to record and mix his own band, to an estimated $2 million studio.