![]() ![]() The console sat on a platform, which was about six or eight inches off the floor. The whole control room was all brick, and it had individual panels of acoustical tile to deaden it down. ![]() ![]() He designed a lot of those consoles, and then brought that technology over to Sunset Sound. He was also one of the design engineers who originated the design of the tube amplifiers that United Recorders used. Alan recorded Dave Brubeck's “Take Five,” the famous Stravinsky recordings at the American Legion Hall, things like that. He also built Elektra studios, and was one of the original mixers at Columbia Records when they had their studios here in Hollywood. The console was a custom tube console with 14 inputs that Alan Emig built for Sunset Sound. The left was a block wall covered with acoustical tile, and then there was a big door, which held the famous Sunset Sound echo chamber, and then there was the entrance into the control room. Then there was the glass window, and there were three Altec Lansing 604e loudspeakers hanging above that. That's where we put the tapes, because we didn't have a tape vault. It was a compression room.the back wall was all brick, the floor was asphalt tile, the right wall looking out to the studio was shelving with sliding doors. MG: Can you give us some idea of what Sunset Sound was like in terms of the room and the equipment?īB: Well, we had one room, which was Studio One, which still exists today, although the control room has been heavily modified over the years. When Jac was looking for a good place to record out here in California, after he had signed Arthur Lee and Love, he asked Herb where to go, and he told him about me and Sunset Sound Recorders. As Rhino readies the new Doors LP box set (now set for April, 2008), we figured it was a good time to present it here-ed.Īnd he was good friends with Herb Cohen, who managed Tim Buckley, and Herb was a friend of Jac's. This interview, conducted by Matthew Greenwald back in 1997, first appeared in issue 14 of The Tracking Angle. ![]()
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