RSR274 - John Storyk - Designing Electric Lady Studios For Jimi Hendrix & Advice For Your Home Studio
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2020
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is John Storyk, registered architect and acoustician, is a founding partner of WSDG (Walters-Storyk Design Group). He has provided design and construction supervision services for the professional audio and video recording community since the 1969 design of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studios in New York City.
John Storyk received his architectural studies from Princeton and Columbia Universities. As an independent designer, engineer and principal designer of WSDG he has been responsible for over 3.5k world-class audio/video production facilities, including studios, radio stations, video suites, entertainment clubs and theatres.
His work includes private studios for Whitney Houston, Bob Marley, Ace Frehley, Russ Freeman, Taylor Dayne's producer Rick Wake; Johnny Yuma Recording in L.A.; Greenway; C & C Music's Robert Clavicles; Oven Studios (Alicia Keys); Roc the Mic (J-Z) and others.
Professional audio video installations include Soundshop, Nashville; Crawford Post, Atlanta; Talking House (San Francisco); screening rooms for NYC's Planet Hollywood and Technicolor; conference facilities for Mercury (Polygram), EMI, CEMEX, Sumitoma; large scale educational and performance facilities for Full Sail/Platinum Post (Orlando), Ex'Pression Center for New Media (San Francisco), and Jazz at Lincoln Center / XM Radio (New York city).
He is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Acoustical Society of America, Audio Engineering Society (AES) and a frequent contributor to AES convention papers and professional industry periodicals. John is also a frequent lecturer at schools throughout the nation. He has established courses in acoustics at both Full Sail and Ex'pression Center for the Media Arts and is an adjunct professor of Acoustics and Studio Design at Berklee College of Music, Boston.
As an architect turned music producer myself I feel very honoured to have John with us today on the show to see what we can learn about studio design and the ways it can help us make better records.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by OWC, PreSonus, API Audio, Isotope, Sound Porter, Mastering, JZ microphones, and Spectra-1964, |
| 0:14.0 | on the JZB-B-29 microphone through the Spectra-1964 STX-100 Micpre, C-610 Complementer, and Isotope RX, and Ozone. |
| 0:24.4 | So get ready to rock. |
| 0:27.2 | I can make a bright room dead. |
| 0:28.9 | I can have curtains. |
| 0:30.0 | I can bring in rugs. |
| 0:31.3 | I can bring in goboes. |
| 0:32.7 | There's a lot of tricks that are not even particularly difficult. |
| 0:36.2 | I can have doors that open and shut that give variable acoustics. |
| 0:40.3 | Okay? |
| 0:41.3 | But it's kind of hard to take a dead room that's way too dead, particularly if it's dead in an uneven |
| 0:46.3 | manner and make it bright. |
| 0:48.3 | What are you going to do? |
| 0:49.3 | Bring in 20 pieces of plywood? I would. |
| 1:03.2 | Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm Lid Shaw, and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
| 1:21.6 | I've got two words for you that will help you make your best record ever and not lose it. Storage and backup. You want fast drives for composing and recording and reliable drives for backup so you don't lose all |
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| 1:50.5 | The Spectre 1964 STX-100 mic pre provides unequaled headroom and linear output regardless of transient |
| 1:58.5 | audio peaks, capturing critical details from your microphone. |
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