The Village (also known as Village Recorders, or the Village Recorder) is a
recording studio
A recording studio is a specialized facility for sound recording, mixing, and audio production of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds. They range in size from a small in-home project studio large enoug ...
located at 1616 Butler Avenue in
West Los Angeles,
California.
History
The building was built by the
Freemasons
Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 13th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities ...
in 1922
and was originally a Masonic temple. It remained that way until the 1960s, when
used the building as a center for
Transcendental Meditation.
The temple was converted into a recording studio in 1968 by composer and meatpacking heir
Geordie Hormel.
The Village is home to a vintage
Neve 8048 console as well as two Neve 88R consoles. The Village is renowned for its extensive inventory of vintage microphones and
outboard gear
Musical outboard equipment or outboard gear is used to process or alter a sound signal separately from functionality provided within a mixing console or a digital audio workstation. Outboard effects units can be used either during a live perform ...
. The studio also has
Oscar Peterson's
Steinway & Sons
Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway (), is a German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in Manhattan by German piano builder Henry E. Steinway, Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway). The company's growth led to ...
Model L, which Peterson used extensively from the 1940s through the 1980s.
Many major motion picture and television soundtracks have also been recorded at the studio, including ''
Ace Ventura'', ''
Dead Poets Society'', ''
O Brother, Where Art Thou?'', ''
The Simpsons'', ''
Toy Story 2'', ''
Walk the Line'', ''
The X-Files'', ''
Wall-E'', ''
Revolutionary Road
''Revolutionary Road'' is American author Richard Yates's debut novel about 1950s suburban life in the East Coast. It was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962, along with ''Catch-22'' and ''The Moviegoer''. When published by Atlantic ...
'', ''
The Shawshank Redemption'' and others.
The Village becomes home to
KCRW's ''
Morning Becomes Eclectic'' radio show, hosted by
Jason Bentley, during on-air membership drives when the station's own performance room is unavailable.
References
External links
*
Interview with Jeff Greenberg - NAMM Oral History Library (2014)
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Recording studios in California
Companies based in Los Angeles
Masonic buildings in California