Running a studio today you have to treat musicians well or you won’t survive, back then Wally did that because it was what was in his heart. Affordable multi track recording studio and remote drumming by Tony Antonio. Today with so much recording being done at home it’s hard to imagine how different things were back then when engineers had more or less a monopoly on the gear and expertise it took to make a decent sounding record. The latest Tweets from Imagine Sound Studio (imaginesoundstu). Because of the difficulties overdubbing presented in the recording studio. He also knew how hard it was for struggling musicians to pay for studio time and was very understanding if you needed a some extra time to settle accounts. Imagine recording your band where each instrument has a dedicated track or. ) When you went to Wally’s, he made you feel like you were in your own living room (except with a much better comic book collection) and especially if you were tracking everything live the relaxed atmosphere he created made a huge difference in what got down on tape. Wonderful set up It was such a unique and enlightening experience to walk through the whole recording process and have the opportunity to pick the minds of. (As I recall he even had a holder for one of his ldc’s made out of rubber bands and a colander. He cared about songs and the musicians who came to him to record them, His place back then was no frills but he knew how to find great gear for cheap and how to make the most of it. Back in the day if you managed to scrape together the cash to be able to afford to get into a decent place to begin with, more often than not had to deal with an engineer with a snotty attitude that couldn’t care less about your songs or how you thought they should be recorded. Things have change enormously since the first time I stepped into a recording studio. Imagine Sound Studio has been offering music lessons to the public since 2010. Wally’s clients include 4AD, Fantasy, Bloodshot, Warner Brothers, Ruby Works, Future Farmer, ABC television, Light in The Attic, Water, 4 Men with Beards and Ace Records London ,where with Alec Palao he has remixed rare unheard tracks from such bands as the Zombies ,Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Chocolate Watchband, Sean Bonniwell’s Music Machine, Zakary Thaks, Mel and Tim, the Paris Sisters, Wayne Cochran and the CC Riders, Sly Stone and many others.Ĭompetitive pricing, relaxed atmosphere and a really nice neighborhood with gobs of parking, good plces to eat (close to Bart too!) make the Wally Sound the logical choice for you next recording project. It is a perfect match for the Ampex MM 1200 2″ 8/16 track and the Apollo 16 / Pro Tools and Logic DAWs.Ī marriage of old and new, the studio is equipped with a large selection of vintage and new microphones- Neumann, Altec, Electro Voice, Shure, Oktava, Groove Tubes etc-lots of great outboard gear as well as 2 plate reverbs, cool echo devices and all that other good stuff like tube and solid state guitar amps, keyboards, basses and guitars that are all available when using the studio. The studio is based around a 1973 AUDITRONICS 501 “son of grand” quad console modified by Wally Heider and Dean Jensen, equipped with inductive (think Pultec) EQ.
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