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Originally posted by Cosmonauta
I don't know if they are top studios... but in 1997 I was in New York to participate (as a musician) in 2 projects.

The other was done in a crazy studio in NJ (Weehawken, 5 minutes from Manhattan) owned by Roy Ciccala. It was called IIWII. The place was formerly a train station, real messy, psychedelic vibe. It had a great API board, great outboard compressors and all vintage mic you can imagine.

Of course it was 1997, so my post may be REAL out of date .. 1.25 cents.


(ps: by the way... that spam thing is a shame )

Hi there; If you're on a budget, and keeping an eye on the bottomline, here's a few places to consider.
I am not spamming & I have no affiliation with any of these studios
(I don't have 88 fingers either, just 8 )

Check out Dubway on 26th street, Stratosphere, and Excello in Brooklyn; I have mixed stuff from the first 2, & heard unmixed projects tracked at Excello; can't vouch for the places personally, never worked in any of 'em, but what I either heard or worked on sounded fine.

I mixed projects at IWII (It Is What It Is) this past June, and in the fall of '03

IWII is an offshoot of SST, which is a backline rental company owned by John Hanti

The control room is one of the old Record Plant remote trucks, attached to a VERY large live room which is normally used for rehearsing touring show's sound and lights: we're talking big big room: It's not a slick, MIX Mag gear porn room; very much in the "raw" category; it's for touring acts rehearsing, not A&R guys impressing their girlfriends, if you get my drift

The control room is like stepping into a time capsule circa 1973; lovely vintage 24 chan API board, lotsa outboard, + mics that Mr. Ciccala owns: they even have the Steinway grand that John Lennon recorded "Imagine" with (not the white one in the movie, the actual studio one)
1/2" ATR 102, Pro-Tools, Genelec monitors, Studer 2" plate reverbs, LA2A, Lang, Vari-Mu, blah blah blah; they're not hurting for gear.

I worked there twice; one session mixing some punkpop stuff, and most recently for an entire week: the control room is basically a truck box: tight quarters, and certainly not a perfect acoustic: kinda like working on a submarine, so if you need a control room the size of a starter home, fuggetaboutit - but I've worked in worse scenarios.
the gear is sweeeet, and the folks are very nice. GREAT Italian food joints nearby too.
It's the first stop when you take a bus from the Port Authority, so it's actually very close to Manhattan.

I think the rate is pretty good: don't know, I was the mix guy, brought in by the producer:

And there ya' go; good luck