Studio G. 

Wall coverings in, wood floor done, trim done, carpeted stage. 

Studio H- top photo shows where the door was moved from, bottom shot shows back window which is being knocked through to the deck.

Heres my room again- studio G, viewed from the deck door. As you can see, some of the fabric on the walls has gone up- its blue. You can also see the wood floor- good for catching the sweat from my troubled brow as I pound out commercials by the dozen. Easy clean up. Always good. The hole at bottom center is for engineering personnel to poke their heads out during sessions so they can mend stuff.

This is Studio H, as viewed from the back of the room. The door on the right of the pic has been moved 10 ft towards the vo booth to allow for more client space. The whole schtick with both studios is to allow for more client party space- this one is massive: enough room for about 75 clients and their dogs. Not really.

Nick Garside dismantling Logic panels. 

Left: studio after al racks cleared out. The back wall is going to be demolished on saturday and moved back 4 feet.

I was doing a session on a saturday afternoon about 5 years ago, and the audiofile kept overheating. We ran out and got this $22 fan from Savon, and its been running ever since. True story.

POP Studios G and H Refit February 2009

Heres what studio G looked like at 9am on friday- pretty messy, but we were about to gut it so who cares? The AMS Logic 1 console you see at the front of the room is going to be the biggest change- that thing was invented in 1988, has been in constant use at POP sound since 1994 and has lasted pretty well... its also paired up with Audiofile, an editing system, and I've been using it since 1998. I'm going to kind of miss it, and its a good solid warhorse of sound engineering excellence, but over the past 3 years its been like driving around in a 1964 Aston Martin DB5- a classic with a really nice smell of cracked leather and oil, but I never know if I'm going to make it to the end of the session without crashing 37 times or having a complete meltdown. As a sad footnote to this consoles illustrious (and highly profitable) career, it actually passed away horribly on thursday afternoon during a session- a power spike fried all its drives. I think it had heard us joking about going "office space" on it in the parking lot- we didn't mean it, we were going to put ole' Nelly out to pasture with all the other obsolete consoles in LA where they could frolic together until the end. So sad.