Residential Recording

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Recording didn’t start in Hollywood, but it sure was perfected here. Yeah we all love those great British Abbey Road / Beatles records. Did you know that George Martin came to Capitol Studios in Hollywood, at Paul McCartney’s request, to see for himself why Sir Paul’s rightfully said: “Why do American Records sound better then ours?” He then ordered several Fairchild's and Pultecs for Abbey Road creating Ringo’s distinctive drum sound and George and John’s bitey midrange guitar tone (already heard on Buck Owen records recorded in the basement at the Capitol Tower) respectively. (scroll down, it get's better)

What about those in the spoon South of France, Exile On Main Street / Rolling Stones tracks? Where do you think Keith and Mick mixed them? Just east of The Strip at Sunset Sound.

Don’t go looking for Gold Star-home of Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound”-it’s been a mini-mall since the early eighties. The infamous echo chamber of all echo chambers was at Santa Monica and Vine in Hollywood. Did you know that Dr John’s classic voodoo album, “Gris Gris” was recorded at Gold Star. The sessions took place during the off hours of Sonny & Cher’s “I Got You Babe” LP for Atlantic. Most of the players for both projects were New Orleans brothel-cum-session musicians in exile.

And of course, the godfathers of residential recording, The Band, recorded their second album, “The Band” at Sammy Davis Jr’s house in where else: The Hollywood Hills.

Well I’m sure you don’t have the budget that guys like Richard Perry, Rod Stewart, and Harry Nillson snorted in the seventies out here ($500,000 minimum per record.) However, you do want to live in style and record with the best vintage and state-of-the-art gear at your fingertips in a sonically tuned and adjustable environment (those big theatrical curtains are not just for looks.) All our gear is top notch, perfectly maintained, and immaculately pleasing to the ear. And is the same stuff that everyone uses and has used for over fifty years of Rock-N-Roll!-Jimmy

Hear is some of the gear. You an click on a picture for a larger view.

Quicktime Clips

Patio Control Room behind con In front of con Living Room

Rates start at $1,000 per day. This includes accommodations for two people, maid service, and use of studio (30 day minimum). Housing for any additional guests/ entourage can be arranged in any number of nearby Hillside accommodations. Engineers, assistants, etc. can be ordered-up just as easily as a gourmet meal from any one of thousands of great restaurants located just minutes away.

The New King Sound Equipment List as of June 2003:

Recording Devices

Pro Tools HD-3 System, Full Blown, state-of-the-art, Complete

Focusrite / Digidesign Control 24

(2) Apogee AD/16 - DA/16 (16in/16 out) 24 Bit / 96khz converters

22” Mac Cinema Display

Mac G4 1Gig Dual

Emagic AMT 8 midi interface

AMPEX ATR 102 W/ ORIGINAL AMPEX 1/2” HEADS, 4 SPEED PAD NET

3M M-79 1/2” Tape Machine

Apogee AD-500E AD Converter

Panasonic SV-3800 Dat Machine

Sony TCD-7 Dat Machine

HHB CDR 650 CDR Recorder

Microphone Pre-Amplifiers / Equalizers

Neve 1073 Modules (6)

Neve 1084 Modules (2)

Pultec EQH-2 EQ (2)

Telefunken / TAB V76 Mic pre (2)

Compressor / Limiters

Universal Audio 1176 Black Face /Original Vintage Limiting Amplifier (2)

Urei 1176 Silver Face / Original Vintage Amplifier (2)

Teletronix LA-2A / Original Vintage Leveling Amplifier Serial #296

Fairchild 670 Stereo Compressor Serial #53

Neve 32264a Compressor/Limiter (2)

Alan Smart C2 Stereo Compressor

Tubetec Compressor CL1B (2)

Reverbs / Tape Echos

Roland SRV-2000 Digital Reverb

Roland Space Echo RE-201 (2)

Monitors / Amplifiers

Hafler Pro2400 Power Amplifier (2)

Genelec 1031 A Studio Monitor (2)

Yamaha NS-10M Studio Monitor (4)

Guitars / Amplifiers / Drums

Martin 0-18 1964 Acoustic Guitar

Martin 00-18 1956 Acoustic Guitar

Dobro Steel Resonator Guitar 1984

Fender Super Amplifier 1960

Fender Amplifier Bassman Combo 1959

Vox AC30 Amplifier 1961

Watkins Dominator Amplifier 1959

Ampeg B-15 Bass Amplifier 1964

Gretsch 3 piece drum Set 1959

Ludwig 3 piece drumset 1965

Ludwig Snare Black Beauty 1959

Fender Precision Bass Guitar 1972

Fender Stratocaster Guitar 1960

Fender Telecaster Electric Guitar 1966

Gibson Firebird III Electric Guitar 1964

Gibson Les Paul Goldtop 1952

Gibson Les Paul Jr. 1959

Gibson SQ Jr. 1968

Gretsch Malcom Young II Electric Guitar 2004

G&L Skyhawk “Strat” Electric Guitar 1989

Schecter “Strat” w/Supro Ouai lap-steel pick-up 1985

Microphones

Neumann Tube Microphone KM-54 (2)

Neumann Tube Microphone U-47 (2)

Neumann Microphone U-47fet

Langevin Condenser Mic CR-3A

Sennheiser Microphone MD-421 (2)

Sennheiser Microphone MD-409 (2)

AKG Stero Tube Microphone C-24

AKG Condenser Microphone 535-EB

AKG Microphone D112-EB

Shure SM-57 (2)