SH Spotlight Pictures of recording studios, old and new. Do you have any?

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Time again to ask. Do you have any photos of recording studios? Either your own or whatever. Add them here. Thanks!

Below are some random shots. You've seen some before..


Capitol Tower Studio B (the water cooler and coffee maker are now in this exact spot.)
Flintstones, 1960
EMI Abbey Road, Studio 1, 1971 (note the Tannoys)
Vitaphone, 1927
Beatles at EMI Abbey Road

 

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Vitaphone disk cutting
Vitaphone playback, 1927
RCA-Victor Studios, 1941
Same
Capitol Melrose, 1953

 

3
Bill Putnam designed 610 console Neil Young used to record HARVEST, etc.
Sarser Sound
Jan Berry & Bones Howe, Western, 1963
Bruce Botnick at Sunset Sound, 1965
Capitol, Melrose, 1953

 

4
Capitol Melrose, 1953
Cilla Black, EMI 1966
Columbia Church Studio, 30th Street, Frank Laico, engineer.

 

5
Decca, UK
Dave Forrest at Warner Bros. Music Scoring Stage, 1941 (Erich Wolfgang Korngold's KING'S ROW scoring session).
Federal, Kingston
Gold Star Wrecking Crew
Hanna-Barbara

 

6
IBC
Helios
Joe Meek at IBC
Recording "Grinch" at Radio Recorders with Thorne & Dr. Seuss and animator Chuck Jones
Larry Levine at Gold Star

 

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Malcom Addey at EMI No. 2 in 1958
Benny Goodman, Columbia 1941
Nat King Cole, 1956, Tower, Studio A "Love Is The Thing"
Russ Gary @ Heider recording CCR
Shadows at EMI

 

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Capitol, Melrose (Daws Butler, Freberg, June Foray, etc.), 1953
Abbey Road, No. 1, 1971
Sunset Sound next three shots..

 

9
Threepenny Opera at Beltone, 1954 with Lotte Lenya
Sinatra/Basie, 1963 United
United
Atlantic, NYC "Wheels Of Fire"
Who at IBC, October 3, 1966

 

10
Jamaica
Redd console
RCA 46A, 1941
Billy May & Nat King Cole, 1961, Tower studio A
EMI Mark IV!

 

11

 

I have many more but I gotta run out. I'll try and finish photo ID's later. Or someone else can for me!

Enjoy and add MORE!

 

That is a wicked small space. Worse than Joe Meek's closet!

 

Where are the headphones?

 

Two shots of my buddy Dave's very retro voiceover studio in Seattle, plus a photo of the Brubeck Quartet at NYC's 30th Street Studios -- look at how simple the set-up is! No gobos, no isolation booths, just 4 stellar musicians playing together in the same space, captured on tape. Lovely.

Matt

 

Our host posted these earlier. Notice that on two of the photos, the tape runs "oxide out" and on the third, it runs the way we are used to today, "oxide in." (Look at the position of the record heads.) The photos also show that Capitol used plenty of RCA mics, not just the Neumann's with which they are so well associated.

Matt

 

In post #22, he's working on "CAP 8393-1." Anybody know what that was? Matrix numbers were up around 11000 in 1953, so I'm guessing it was something originally recorded in 1950 or so.

Matt