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Title: Ocean Way's Website Post by: c-man on August 21, 2012, 10:45:16 AM About friggin' time they added this...been waiting for months!:
http://www.oceanwayrecording.com/news.php Title: Re: Ocean Way's Website Post by: Joshilyn Hoisington on August 21, 2012, 03:56:17 PM Nice. Fascinating to think that the Beach Boys have been recording stuff on that 6000s strip of Sunset for nearly 50 years.
Title: Re: Ocean Way's Website Post by: guitarfool2002 on August 21, 2012, 05:36:48 PM Is it just me or do certain studios seem to downplay their legacy too much on the websites? I get the feeling some of the fans and historians value the classic rooms more than the actual owners, and of course business is existing in the present and looking ahead to the future, but damn if I owned a studio with that much of a legacy and legend, I'd have classic photos pasted all over the website.
One studio that did that was Sunset Sound, if I'm remembering...good Doors, Stones photos and the like. I think it sells the studio as much as listing all the digital gizmos they have available. Example: They say: Brian Wilson recorded a few Smile tracks here! I'd say: SOLD! Them: But we haven't listed which versions of ProTools we have and which converters we use... Me: I DON'T CARE! Book it. :) Title: Re: Ocean Way's Website Post by: Joshilyn Hoisington on August 21, 2012, 05:42:55 PM Is it just me or do certain studios seem to downplay their legacy too much on the websites? I get the feeling some of the fans and historians value the classic rooms more than the actual owners, and of course business is existing in the present and looking ahead to the future, but damn if I owned a studio with that much of a legacy and legend, I'd have classic photos pasted all over the website. One studio that did that was Sunset Sound, if I'm remembering...good Doors, Stones photos and the like. I think it sells the studio as much as listing all the digital gizmos they have available. Example: They say: Brian Wilson recorded a few Smile tracks here! I'd say: SOLD! Them: But we haven't listed which versions of ProTools we have and which converters we use... Me: I DON'T CARE! Book it. :) You're absolutely right, and in my opinion, it's a valuable source of both promotion, and possibly even income, wasted. I know it's not like a huge market, but if these places maintained museums, there are people that would pay. You'd have to track down some artifacts and photos and put it all together, but if you set it up right you could get away with charging 10-15 bucks a head for people to come in and look at the museum, and then you could charge more when the rooms are available to see. I mean it's crass commercialism, but at least it gets you in there. I don't mind being sold a bunch of hooey to be able to go into something like, say, the tower of London, which they have to turn into some kind of horror show to get people in there. I don't mind being taken advantage of to get into Western 3, either. Title: Re: Ocean Way's Website Post by: runnersdialzero on August 21, 2012, 05:54:42 PM Who cares if some grandpas recorded there, mother fucking SHINEDOWN recorded there.
Title: Re: Ocean Way's Website Post by: SG7 on August 21, 2012, 09:07:36 PM I was in there too! Not recording, just visiting.
Title: Re: Ocean Way's Website Post by: DonnyL on August 21, 2012, 10:12:41 PM Is it just me or do certain studios seem to downplay their legacy too much on the websites? I get the feeling some of the fans and historians value the classic rooms more than the actual owners, and of course business is existing in the present and looking ahead to the future, but damn if I owned a studio with that much of a legacy and legend, I'd have classic photos pasted all over the website. One studio that did that was Sunset Sound, if I'm remembering...good Doors, Stones photos and the like. I think it sells the studio as much as listing all the digital gizmos they have available. Example: They say: Brian Wilson recorded a few Smile tracks here! I'd say: SOLD! Them: But we haven't listed which versions of ProTools we have and which converters we use... Me: I DON'T CARE! Book it. :) you're completely right, and it just illustrates how backwards the recording world is today ... a few years from now, we'll have guys who don't even know how to thread a reel on a tape machine, much less utilize a real space for echo! if they were to focus on their history, it would really just emphasize how far removed their current setup is from those great recordings. |