RSR326 - Jay Messina - Recording at The Record Plant with Aerosmith, KISS, and John & Yoko
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 111 minutes
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My guest today is Jay Messina who grew up in Brooklyn, NY finding his first gig at Don Elliott's studio using Les Paul's one inch, 8 track machine. He then went to A & R Studios for 4 years, and the next 15 years at Record Plant NY recording all genres of music including Aerosmith, Kiss, Miles Davis, and lots more.
His studio today is called West End Sound and I'm excited to talk with Jay about some of the iconic records he has made including: Aerosmith Toys in The Attic, and KISS Destroyer to name a couple.
Thanks so much to Steve Marcantonio for making our introduction. Steve of course has known Jay for at least 150 years making records together since before the Gramophone was invented!
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by OWC, JZ microphones, Spectra-1964, Adam Audio, and Isotope. |
| 0:11.3 | You're hearing my voice right now on a J-Z pop filter and BB-29 microphone through the Spectra-1964 |
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| 0:28.3 | So get ready to rock. |
| 0:31.8 | Jack and I did an experiment once during an Arismuth record. |
| 0:35.6 | We set up 13 amps, you know, |
| 0:39.0 | all the amps that we had from record plant in our arsenal there, |
| 0:43.0 | and miced them all up, |
| 0:44.6 | got the guitar signal into all of them, |
| 0:47.0 | and discovered that 13 amps isn't 13 times better than one amp, |
| 0:52.3 | or maybe not even better at all. |
| 1:04.9 | Welcome to Recording Studio Rock Stars. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm Lid Shaw, and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
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