Get Connected

A prelude to AES…
The first-ever Get Connected Summit (GCS) has been announced for October 2 – 3, 2008, at Pyramind Production and Training, 880 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA.  The Get Connected Summit is an unprecedented industry development and networking event bringing together leaders and enthusiasts in the electronic music, media and technology industries to [...]

John Cuniberti Opens Digital Therapy Lab

Engineer John Cuniberti, who has operated The Plant’s mastering facilities since 2000, has left the historic Sausalito, Calif., recording studio to open up his own mixing and mastering studio, Digital Therapy Lab, located in the hills above Oakland, Calif.
“During my stay at The Plant I had the privilege of working with some very talented artists [...]

Hyde Street Studios Update

Sad news:
http://www.examiner.com/a-1351471~Historic_recording_studios_sing_last_song.html

Coast Recorders V1

My poor neglected blog. I’m so sorry for leaving you alone for so long, but I promise to pay more attention from now on.
Like most cities, the San Francisco studio landscape continues to expand and contract in all sorts of mysterious ways. Fantasy Studios (see previous post), has found a way to carry on. Different [...]

Shameless Self Promotion: New Book!

Okay, so this has absolutely nothing to do with Bay Area recording, aside from the fact that it pertains to the author of this blog! So here’s my plug — my second book, Born in a Small Town: The John Mellencamp Story, is set for a Nov. 1 release by Omnibus Press. It’s the result [...]

Recording Academy Honors

Hi,
On April 29, 2007, I attended the Recording Academy Honors Awards in SF. What a fabulous night! This year, the gala honored songwriter/producer Linda Perry (previously 4 Non Blondes frontwoman), Sammy Hagar, and Narada Michael Walden. The whole night couldn’t have been better.

“If These Halls” Got Nominated for ARSC Award

Hi,
I guess you’d file this under the “shameless self-promotion” category, but I’m excited and feel like spreading the word!
If These Halls Could Talk: A Historical Tour Through San Francisco Recording Studios, by yours truly, was selected as a finalist for the 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded [...]

Never Gonna Get It

Hi!
In honor of En Vogue’s upcoming performance at Nob Hill Masonic on Friday, March 30,  I thought I’d share a “Classic Tracks” story on their song “My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It)” from their album Funky Divas. Denzil Foster and Tommy McElroy produced the album, which soared up the charts and brought both the [...]

Hyde Street Studios Survives and Thrives

Apparently, rumours have been swirling about town that Hyde Street Studios is either closed or closing. Just this past weekend, a musician friend of mine told me that his band was booked there in April, and they were going to be one of the last! Well, it’s true that this historic studio — a haven [...]

Columbia Studios Spins The Automatt

Here’s the rest of/rest of the story on Columbia Studios, who stuck in out in S.F. until 1977…around the time producer David Rubinson held the grand opening party for The Automatt, the studio he opened in their Folsom Street building. The Automatt started as a one-room studio here; he had time to install some pretty [...]