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 6000 W. Sunset Boulevard | |
| Industry | Music |
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| Predecessor | Cello Studios |
| Founded | 2006; 20 years ago (2006) |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Area served | US |
Key people | Doug Rogers |
| Products | Recording studios |
| Website | eastweststudios.com |
EastWest Studios (formerly known asWestern Studio, a component ofUnited Western Recorders and laterOcean Way Recording) is a recording studio complex located at 6000 WestSunset Boulevard inHollywood.[1] Originally constructed byBill Putnam in the 1960s, the studios are currently owned by sound developer Doug Rogers and managed by Candace Stewart.[2][3]
EastWest Studios was first known as Western Studio, one half of theUnited Western Recorders studio complex located on 6000 and 6050 West Sunset Boulevard. In 1984, United Western Recorders was sold and renamed toOcean Way Recording. In 1998, the former Western Studio half at 6000 Sunset was divided from Ocean Way Recording, sold, and renamed to Cello Studios. In 2005, Cello Studios ceased operation.[4]
On January 17, 2006, Doug Rogers acquired ownership of 6000 Sunset. Rogers commissioned designerPhilippe Starck (SLS Hotel Los Angeles, St. Martins Lane hotel, London)[5] to refurbish and redesign the artist lounges, kitchen, and reception areas,[2] which had previously suffered water damage. Careful to preserve the integrity of the original recording facilities, Starck and Rogers implemented a brand-new design to create "a place where artists can meet, mingle, and be inspired".[6] The studio complex became Starck's first and only recording studio design.[6][7]
In March 2009, the renovated studios, renamed EastWest Studios, opened to the public. As of June 2020, it produced over 120 Grammy nominations, more than any other studio in the world.[8]
EastWest Studios consists of three main studios.[1] Studio 1 features a live room which is 58' × 42', an isolation booth measuring20' × 23', 9' Bechstein piano, concert lighting system and one of a limited number of classicNeve 8078 consoles remaining in the world today. Studio 2's live room measures35' × 24', with a10' × 14' isolation booth and8' × 6' vocal booth and a classic RCA custom Neve 8028 console.[9] The smallest of the rooms, Studio 3, is31' × 15' with a Steinway piano and a classicTrident A Range console. All three rooms are fitted with flying fader automation and ATC main monitors.[10]
EastWest Sounds was founded byrecording engineer Doug Rogers in 1988 as a manufacturer ofsample libraries. The company partnered with high-profilemixing engineerBob Clearmountain to release two commercially-successful Bob Clearmountain Drums sample collections in the early 1990s.[11]
In the early 2000s, Rogers (head of EastWest Sounds) andNick Phoenix (co-founder ofTwo Steps From Hell) conceived the EastWest/Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra orchestral sample library. Recorded byGrammy-winning recording engineer "Prof" Keith O. Johnson in a 2200-seat concert hall starting in August 2002, the resulting multi-channel recordings were edited and programmed for another year before the library was released.[12]
In 2006, EastWest Sounds purchased Cello Studios to curtail the cost of booking sessions at recording studios to record samples.[11][13] Since then, EastWest Sounds offices have been located at the studios,[14] and the company'svirtual instruments, from the Hollywood Orchestra series, recorded at Studio 1 with some of Hollywood's film score orchestral session players and engineer Shawn Murphy, to numerous genre-specific collections, are recorded there.[11]
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