Endings and beginnings

[mddock58]

You don't like classical? OK, how about Miles Davis/Gil Evan Sketches of Spain? How about Dizzy Gillespie and Bird? How about John Coltrane?

But, No...J Lo recorded there.

It's enough to make me puke.

Well while I was here I saw Pavarotti, David Bowie, Aerosmith, Beyonce, Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr., Neil Diamond, and many more.

It was always fun to see people walking down the street realize that the person walking in front of them with a coffee is Steven Tyler, and watching their jaw hit the ground!

I almost "ran over" Renée Zellweger as she was coming out of a studio after a rehearsal/session (for Chicago). Being 6'2" I almost didn't see her!

J Lo was here quite a bit, but I don't think of her as a foundation of the studio.

Actually I'm not one to "drop names" in general, (as well I do not ogle over celebrities, though I enjoy talking to some of them) but looking back it's been a great job!

[wsk]

Years and years ago when I worked for Soundstream (the Original digital audio Soundstream not the car radio company) I did a mixdown / edit at the CBS studios. It was Kabalevski and Shostakovich cello concertos with Yoyo Ma as the cellist.

This was in the early days of digital. Soundstream sampled at 50kHz, Sony at 44.1kHz. So this mixdown was, in part, the "dirty" way of doing the sampling frequency conversion - mixdown to analog stereo and record that to digital at the other sampling frequency. The clean way is all digital.

I remember spending the better part of a day rewinding and playing the same fifteen second segmant over and over and over again while the producer tweaked various levels to get that phrase to sound just as he wanted it to sound. I can still identify that phrase when I play the CD.

[mddock58]

Well it looks as though the final days of the Studio is upon us. The Studio has ceased operation, and will be empty at the end of this month.

The good news, for me at least, is I have an interview tomorrow, so be praying for my possibilities elsewhere.

[ccga3359]

Best of luck.

[McMurdo]

Good luck with the interview.

[mddock58]

Just like normal, The interview has been moved to later in the week.

[Galician]

Hey, Mark, Sorry that I didn't know about your situation over there. Hell's Kitchen will miss Sony, and we kilted locals will miss your presence. I'll have to pass the building to see what's happening.

Hope things work out well for you!