#552:Paul Camarata -Owner of Sunset Sound Recorders

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🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

If you listen to music in the last 60 years chances are some of your favorite records were recorded right in Los Angeles at the legendary Sunset Sound Recording Studio.

The list of artist that recorded in this studio is insane.

Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Van Halen, Prince, Elton John, The Rolling Stones the list goes on and on.

It was an honor to sit down with the owner Paul Camarata and hear the history of this building and how it came about.

Paul's father Tutti open the studio 60 years ago and started out recording everything for Walt Disney including the music for some of the Rides. Quickly the studio became the hot room in Hollywood know for it's incredible selection of amazing vintage gear and amazing house engineers.

Sit back and enjoy this amazing episode.

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0:00.0	October 5th, a Monday and here we are with episode number 552. My guest today is
0:11.2	Paul Kamarata, owner of one of the most legendary recording studios in America
0:18.6	Sunset Sound. Let me just give you a list of who's who that's worked in this
0:25.3	studio. Just real quick you might have heard of these people. Prince, the doors,
0:31.7	Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Rage Against the Machine, Elton John. I mean it is it is
0:41.6	unreal when you walk through these studio doors and see the gold and platinum
0:48.8	records up on the wall. And to hear this man's story and his father's story was
0:55.9	an honor, an honor. I was in the studio. I recorded this episode right in the
1:04.4	same room that Jim Morrison sang every door song, every one of them. And it is
1:15.0	unreal. The same room where exile on Main Street did all the overdubs. I'm
1:23.3	talking about Jagger and Richards just in there after leaving France. And I mean
1:30.2	the stories are on and on. And you are going to love this episode even if you
1:35.9	don't care about recording studios, you are going to love everything about this
1:41.4	because what you don't understand is most people don't know this but a record
1:47.6	that you love, a record you love. Let's say it's Prince sign of the times. Let's
1:54.2	say it's Led Zeppelin 4, stairway to heaven. You love that record. You love the
2:02.2	songs and you love the band. But you know what else you love and you don't
2:05.9	really think about it is the sound. And the reason you don't think about it is
2:12.5	because it sounds fantastic. If it sounded like shit, you would talk about it
2:18.1	every day. This sounds like shit. I've never had a legendary classic record that
2:26.2	sounded like shit and it was still legendary. Not that I I mean maybe some of the
2:32.0	punk rock stuff. Not that it sounds like shit but I'm talking low-fi or a homemade
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