los angeles recording studo

Finding a person who does not like any kind of music is a task ‘next to impossible'. The choice for music varies from person to person but it is something that everyone enjoys. While some people find pleasance in classical music some enjoy listening to pop and rocks. Some people look for CDs of fusion music while others are just crazy about music videos where special sound effects and instruments are used. We just listen to music and sometimes appreciate the voice of the singers and the expertise of the person playing the instruments. But never think about the contribution of the recording studios where these items are prepared. Recording studios play a very vital role in making a music album hit in the market. It is actually the place where experts put their best efforts to manufacture an item that we buy from the music stores and play at our home and enjoy our leisure time.

A recording studio is actually a place which is designed specially to achieve the acoustic properties that are needed to make a good musical item. Sound diffusion, adequate reverberation, proper ambiance and low level of reflections are some of the most essential prerequisites of creating a music album and it is a recording studio where all these are available. There are different types of recording studios and the need depends on the type of music to be recorded. Recording studios where songs of rock bands and artiste are recorded require facilities that are completely different from that where music for television shows and movies are recorded. On the other hand, recording studios for classical songs and musical performances have got completely distinguished set up.

Generally Recording studios consists of a room where singers and instrumentalists perform and a control room from where equipments for recording and mixing sounds are operated. Generally loud instruments like electric guitars and drums are played in small rooms called ‘isolation booths' to keep the sounds away from the microphones that are recording the voice of singers or the sound of the instruments that are being played by the instrumentalists. Microphones, mixing consoles, multi-track recorders and loud speakers are some of the most common equipments that a recording studio possesses. In this new age of digital sounds, availability of digital audio workstations, music workstations and equipments for providing outboard effects like equalizers, compressors and reverbs has also become essential for recording studios.

Los Angeles, the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in USA is a place that houses some of the top recording studios of the world. The city, which is nicknamed as ‘The City of Angels' is known for its huge contribution to the entertainment industry. Los Angeles is the home base of Hollywood, the largest entertainment industry in the world and is called the ‘Entertainment Capital of the World'. Majority of music that are used in movies and television shows are recorded in the recording studios of Los Angeles because these are the best in the world, as far as updated infrastructures and availabilities of equipments are concerned. Most of the recording studios have got colorful histories of recording performances of leading vocalists and rock bands. Though modern recording studios have come up in large numbers all over USA, the facilities in Los Angeles are way ahead as far as volume of work is concerned.

Names of some of the leading recording studios in Los Angeles are given below:

• Capitol Studios
1750 North Vine Street
Hollywood, CA 90028

• Hollywood Sound
6367 Selma Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90028

• Atlantis
1140 N. Western Ave.
Hollywood, CA 90029

• Digital Sound Recording
607 N Ave 64
Los Angeles, CA 90042

• Echo Sound Recording
2900 Los Feliz Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90039

• Grand Master Studios
1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028