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Electro-Vox Recording Studios (or simply Vox) is a recording studio formerly in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States. It was historically located on Melrose Avenue across from the Paramount Pictures gate. In 2009, it was purchased by American musician Woody Jackson, who has since moved its operations to Tucson, Arizona.
Initially a single-room studio, Blackbird's Studio A featured a Neve 8078 analog mixing console that was custom-built for Motown's Los Angeles studio before being owned and used by Donald Fagen. McBride purchased the console from Fagen in 2002, and restored and modified it for Blackbird. [6] Studio A's live room features a moveable ceiling. [7]
The studio was created by Joe Gottfried and Tom Skeeter, who wanted to start a record company and get into artist management. After a rough start, Skeeter and Gottfried purchased [4] [5] [6] a state-of-the-art recording console for $75,175 from the English electronics engineer Rupert Neve: [7] "One of four in the world ... a 28-input, 16-bus, 24-monitor 8028 with 1084 EQs and no automation".
Caigan renovated the control room, adding a state-of-the-art API AXS Legacy console. The recording booths and equipment were upgraded, and the studio’s 1974 Steinway B grand piano was restored.
The typical recording studio consists of a room called the "studio" or "live room" equipped with microphones and mic stands, where instrumentalists and vocalists perform; and the "control room", where audio engineers, sometimes with record producers, as well, operate professional audio mixing consoles, effects units, or computers with ...
Power Station opened in 1977, [7] [8] The studio's largest room, Studio A, is a pine-paneled 52 x 48 foot space with 35-foot ceilings and several isolation booths and a control room equipped with a 40-channel Neve 8068 mixing console.
Capitol Studios are located in the rectangular ground floor base of the 13-story circular Capitol Records Tower, just north of the intersection of Hollywood and Vine.The Capitol Studios facility has business offices, five mastering rooms and four studios, three of which were constructed within a layer of asphalt-impregnated cork to insulate them from outside vibration. [3]
The Hit Factory is a recording studio in New York City owned and operated by Troy Germano. Since 1969, The Hit Factory recording studios have existed in six different locations in New York City, as well as facilities in London and Miami. [1] Today the studios are located at 676 Broadway in the Noho neighborhood of New York City. [2]