RSR343 - Brian Charles - 8 Alarm Fire Destroys Zippah Studio... What You Need To Know
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2022
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Brian Charles a producer, engineer, plugin designer for Rare Signals from Boston Massachusetts. Brian has been a fantastic guest on the podcast before on episode RSR174 to talk about working with indie rock bands. He's worked with thousands of artists over the years and has made albums in almost every genre imaginable.
Some of Brian's many credits include The Vatican Commandos featuring a young "Moby" as the lead singer, Dispatch, pop artist Marina and the Diamonds, Weakened Friends, and his longtime work as a producer and touring member of the band "The Sheila Divine".
Brian is also an educator working with Berklee College of Music, Emerson College, The Walnut Hill School for The Arts, and The Recording Workshop. And he is the creator of the "Transatlantic Plate Reverb" at his plugin company Rare Signals where he digitally recreated the iconic plate reverbs of Zippah studio.
Tragically in December 2021 His Home base studio, Zippah Recording (of 33 years), was destroyed in an 8-alarm fire. Incredibly the music community has come together to fundraise in support of Brian's studio and family recovery after the devastating loss of many decades of instruments, recording equipment, and musical history.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by OWC, Spectra-1964, sample, isotope, and API. |
| 0:10.0 | In fact, you're hearing my voice right now on the Spectra-1964 STX-100 mic-pre in an API |
| 0:16.7 | lunchbox mixed carefully through isotope RX and ozone, all recorded safely onto an OWCSSSD, so get ready to rock. |
| 0:27.2 | The vents had filled with water, so many parts of the ceiling were on the floor. And so it was |
| 0:32.0 | really difficult to navigate the space and move around in it. It was treacherous. And it's icy. |
| 0:37.8 | There's ice everywhere. |
| 0:39.1 | I mean, my monitors had icicles hanging off of them. |
| 0:41.7 | And the ceiling clouds had fallen in on the console. |
| 0:44.6 | And I could barely get to the racks. |
| 0:46.9 | I could see that the water level was about just above my knee in the control room. |
| 0:50.9 | I'm a the control room. |
| 1:03.3 | Welcome to recording studio rock stars. |
| 1:11.6 | 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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