Was that John Agnello?
John assisted me on She's So Unusual and was my engineer on lots of records after that until he went off on his own to produce (and became an indie god)
That empty warehouse space on the 10th floor was affectionately (and sarcastically) called Studio E...
it was in the back behind the Mixroom.
When we had moved up to the Mixroom to finish the record, there were some vocals remaining to be done.
And for some of them, Cyndi decided she wanted to sing in 'E'.
First off, it was big and empty and weird and i think she liked that!
And second, we couldn't see her at all in there and it was somehow liberating for her.
Half of Girls was sung in there and half was the vocal from downstairs in B... i made the switch, in the mix, during the solo.
What was your band called?
B was an INCREDIBLE room.
Perhaps the best sounding rock band room I've ever heard anywhere.
Ridiculously live for its size; which is why it worked if you could figure it out.
Some pople went in there and made it sound just awful... you had to know how to USE the room, not fight it.
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Originally Posted by powerjoe
Mr Wittman,
It is my pleasure to say "hello". My Band was one of that last bands to record at the NYC Record Plant in the "b" studio. The Hooters had me sing on a song of theirs while they were recording there at the same time.
The engineer (I believe his name was John, dark hair, mustache) who worked on our sessions took me upstairs to show me where some of Cyndi's vocals were done. This was a torn down area of the 2nd floor with much debris from walls crumbling and so on. I am not certain if it really was the area where her vocals were done (on the last record there), but if it was, could you elaborate on why that area was desireable for such?
A big fan,
Joel DuBay