Hit Factory..

[djui5]

http://www.titfactorycondo.com/




Seems they sold the name too...wonder if they're getting "royalties" on the name?

[XSergeantD]

Yeah, saw the site. What a joke and a sad situation. They have names up there on the site that never even recorded there. John Lenon - The building was done in 1992 and I never saw John there, so WTF? Stones were never there, though Mick was in studio 1 once.

I don't think they'll tell the peolpe that are looking at buying these places because of those names that they recorded at one of the other buildings.

[djui5]

Originally Posted by XSergeantD

I don't think they'll tell the peolpe that are looking at buying these places because of those names that they recorded at one of the other buildings.

Marketing wins again...

[pan60]

marketing seems to always win.

[nlc201]

Well, if someone bought that huge penthouse, the daily rate they paid to live there (with an "average" mortgage)would start to approach what you would've paid for a lockout on one of the smaller rooms. So, in a sense.....prices have come down!!!!

[kingneeraj]

Originally Posted by djui5

http://www.titfactorycondo.com/

awessssssooommmmmmmeeeeeee....................

[ajfarber]

Wow. The opposite of NOLA. Nola used to be a penthouse appartment.

The Hit Factory had 3 locations over the years. First at 353 w48th steet, the present home of Sear Sound. Next on 42nd street between 5th and 6th, that room became the Big House and most recently, Mirror Image Recording. Finaly the Hit Factory ended up in it's present location, accross the street from Sony and around the corner from Avatar.

Now, if you're stupid rich, you can either live in the Hit Factory or live at the old Stanhope Hotel ( where Charlie Parker died).

I believe that the site of the old Columbia Records studio on 30th street has become condos as well.

Hit Factory Condo: I wonder if the rules allow residents to practice drums or trumpet at 3am?

[dbock]

The Hit Factory had 3 locations over the years. First at 353 w48th steet, the present home of Sear Sound. Next on 42nd street between 5th and 6th, that room became the Big House and most recently, Mirror Image Recording. Finaly the Hit Factory ended up in it's present location, accross the street from Sony and around the corner from Avatar.

Ummmm.......42nd st was an addition while the original 54th st location was going, before they moved to the new glitzy 54th st location.
regards,
David Bock

[Sqye]

Originally Posted by ajfarber

Hit Factory Condo: I wonder if the rules allow residents to practice drums or trumpet at 3am?

sound-proof baths?

tuned kitchen flat to 10Hz?

eventide-style canyon reverb in the broom closets?

hot-swappable hard drive bays in the dumbwaiter?

[matt thomas]

the cream of the original hit factories mics and outboard are at the studio I'm doing a session in at the moment in New Zealand. "hit factory" stickers everywhere here

narco

[Plush]

Condo renderings are ugly--like a Philippe Starck hotel.
The views look nice, however.

Whole place was and is an overpriced toilet.

[TonyBelmont]

Those apartments look like shit compared to what they use to look like.

[Screws]

Originally Posted by narco

the cream of the original hit factories mics and outboard are at the studio I'm doing a session in at the moment in New Zealand. "hit factory" stickers everywhere here

narco

My band and I recorded from 1970-71 into some of those mics. Sigh...

[TonyBelmont]

Originally Posted by Screws

My band and I recorded from 1970-71 into some of those mics. Sigh...

Most of the good ones are now at Criteria in Miami.

Where are you working at Narco? Neil Finn's place?...

[matt thomas]

Originally Posted by Screws

My band and I recorded from 1970-71 into some of those mics. Sigh...

I'll say hi to them from you

narco

[matt thomas]

Originally Posted by TonyBelmont

Most of the good ones are now at Criteria in Miami.

Where are you working at Narco? Neil Finn's place?...

yup, the engineer here was saying they got first pick, I don't know if he means that literally

mostly Neuman LDC's , a pultec and compressers I think. There is a 251 here but I think neil may have already owned that.

narco

[TonyBelmont]

Originally Posted by narco

yup, the engineer here was saying they got first pick, I don't know if he means that literally

mostly Neuman LDC's , a pultec and compressers I think. There is a 251 here but I think neil may have already owned that.

narco

They got first pick of whatever mics the people at the Hit Factory decided they didn't need anymore... Mostly U87's, etc. Also, if you look at the stickers, they were ugly white stickers with numbers on them and didn't say "Hit Factory" on them... If there is a sticker that actually says "Hit Factory", then thsoe were put on by someone else.

BTW, all of the great outboard gear was sold about 5 years ago when Troy decided to cycle out all the "old stuff"... So, any HF gear they bought from the closing was typically no older than 5 years old(especially the 1176's, LA2A's, etc) with a few exceptions..

[dudleys100]

are the guitars supposed to be out of tune on the site? Hmm

[Lynn Fuston]

And that vintage A-T 4047 in the picture?

Gotta love it.

[Fletcher]

I dunno... the kitchens look pretty awesome to me... but I like to cook way more than I ever enjoyed working in the "new" HF... the "old" [farther east on 54th St.] location was a better recording facility in my opinion... then again, nobody asked me.

Peace.

[C.Lambrechts]

I'm surprised at how 'cheap' they are. I mean ... really ... Manhatten / NY ... that's one of , if not the most expensive city in the world. I would have expected them to cost more.

[TonyBelmont]

OMG.....

A 1 bedroom is $1,025,000, plus $1,697 per month in real estate tax and monthly common charges.

[TonyBelmont]

Originally Posted by Fletcher

I dunno... the kitchens look pretty awesome to me... but I like to cook way more than I ever enjoyed working in the "new" HF... the "old" [farther east on 54th St.] location was a better recording facility in my opinion... then again, nobody asked me.

Peace.

I think it looks a little too Ikea for me. But, the fridge looks cool.

[warhead]

Originally Posted by dudleys100

are the guitars supposed to be out of tune on the site? Hmm

Noticed the same thing...ouch...

War

[picksail]

I must say that the penthouse is very cool.

The Viking kitchen is a major bonus!!!!

[XSergeantD]

Originally Posted by TonyBelmont

BTW, all of the great outboard gear was sold about 5 years ago when Troy decided to cycle out all the "old stuff"... So, any HF gear they bought from the closing was typically no older than 5 years old(especially the 1176's, LA2A's, etc) with a few exceptions..

Tony, most of that stuff was from the Rental Co. almost all the blackface 1176's and old LA2A's were kept in the rooms (Hell, I bought 2 old LA2As when Hit closed - pre limit/comp mod). the 1176 and LA2As we bought from you're old workplace were mostly for the new rooms, and yes the cream of the gear was sent to FL, but that was a very funny meeting as to what went down. Some of the things that were and weren't selected left me laughing.
Though a lot of the good stuff did get sent down. I did send them the fairchild 670 - if ayone down there has experience with this unit and knows how to cal it, I doubt it, but Simon is quite capable and hopefully should be able to get it going properly.

I just opened my spreadsheet from the shipment to FL and yes the cream o the mic's went down to FL, the M50s, M49s, 251s,C12s, C24, 4006, 7, 11, SM57s, SM58s OK, so I threw some in that aren't cream which didn't go, but you get the point.

[Mike Caffrey]

Originally Posted by djui5

http://www.titfactorycondo.com/




Seems they sold the name too...wonder if they're getting "royalties" on the name?

I think they did the condo conversion themselves.

[kingneeraj]

Originally Posted by XSergeantD

Tony, most of that stuff was from the Rental Co. almost all the blackface 1176's and old LA2A's were kept in the rooms (Hell, I bought 2 old LA2As when Hit closed - pre limit/comp mod). the 1176 and LA2As we bought from you're old workplace were mostly for the new rooms, and yes the cream of the gear was sent to FL, but that was a very funny meeting as to what went down. Some of the things that were and weren't selected left me laughing.
Though a lot of the good stuff did get sent down. I did send them the fairchild 670 - if ayone down there has experience with this unit and knows how to cal it, I doubt it, but Simon is quite capable and hopefully should be able to get it going properly.

I just opened my spreadsheet from the shipment to FL and yes the cream o the mic's went down to FL, the M50s, M49s, 251s,C12s, C24, 4006, 7, 11, SM57s, SM58s OK, so I threw some in that aren't cream which didn't go, but you get the point.

When I was down there, they hadn't opened the shipment yet.. it was all still sitting in storage!! I hope they do take everything out soon! there's so much COOL stuff sitting in that storage!!

[audioez]

hit factory condo, makes me sad...

but cafe ole right down the street

[Kestral]

I just checked out the condo website. It's $1000 USD per square foot

Is this "normal" in New York??