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''These two racks of gear moved practically intact to Studio B in the United building. The Phase Linear 700 on top of the left rack was mounted between the main monitors in B to power the woofers with as short as possible speaker cable runs. The Marantz Model 9s powered the RCA horns and the custom aluminum tweeters.''
from Ocean Way Audio founder; Allen Sides:
“These are the only pictures that exist of the original Ocean Way Garage Studio taken around 1973 and which I ran until 1976 when I moved to Hollywood. There were three different consoles and setups in the garage, this is the first one with Bill Putnam’s Western Recorders Studio 1 tube console. It had 18 inputs and was the console Frank Sinatra had recorded “New York New York,” “Strangers in the Night” and “The Summer Wind” on. I had a UREI 16-channel monitor console next to it. I had worked a summer job at Western Recorders in 1969 and this console was still installed. I remember being in Studio 1 during the recording of Michel LeGrand’s score for “Summer of ’42” with Lee Hirschberg engineering and it sounded amazing. I was 16 at the time and certainly never dreamed that I would own this console or even conceive that I would eventually own all of the Western/United Studios which of course became Ocean Way.”
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Allen Sides:
“this Bill Putnam designed tube board was built and installed around 1961 at which time 3-track and 4-track was state of the art. Mono mixes were considered the most important at that time because that’s what AM radio played, so stereo mixes were somewhat secondary. Bill created a very unique sub mix section on this console that allowed him to create three live mixes simultaneously for mono/stereo/and multi with different balances and reverb for each, which was very valuable for the time. As much as I loved the sound of this console, it had no pan pots and only one echo send and 4 busses, so I pulled it out after a year and replaced with a Universal Audio 20-input Bushnell console that I kept for the next two years which I then switched out for the Custom Dal-Con UA Yellow console that I also bought from Bill, which stayed in the garage until we moved it to the new Ocean Way Studio B in Hollywood.
I sold my UA tube console for 12K to a friend in Long Beach and he used it for a couple of years before he sold it. But he couldn’t remember who he sold it to. It has never resurfaced; it just disappeared. It’s the largest and most sophisticated UA tube console ever built and is probably worth 300k. Anyone know where it is??”
'' a 3rd version was in Chicago that Bob Ezrin recorded early Alice Cooper LPs on.''
 
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