Hi Will:

Usually at Audio Resource (the old Sounds of Hawaii) but they closed
the room last year. It was where I worked as a novice engineer WAY
back on a brand new 24 input Neve 8058, 2 EMT plates, a Gold Foil,
Pultecs, all the classic Neumann mics and tape machines from Ampex
1200, a Stevens 40 Track, then Lyrec 24. High ceiling, Allen Sides'
monitors he set up and room designed by Jack Edwards and Bill Putnam
himself. I was tracking "Don Ho's 30 Greatest Hawaiian Hits" with some
incredible cats playing on it. I never realized then how good I had
it! Billy Preston, Sly Stone, Larry Graham stopped by to jam, I got to
do a George Benson session, all in my first 2 years as an engineer!
When they closed and crated the Neve for storage, I thought I was
going to be permanently depressed.

Can you believe it, I used to go water skiing, to lunch, to the beach
and out to dinner every night with Bill Putnam when he visited? Nicest
man in the world.

Now I usually work at home (Radar 24 Nyquist) except for drum overdubs
and if the budget permits, I go to LA.

I remember Bill Valdez, great player! Actually, I re-wrote the KGMB's
"One of the Good Things About Hawaii", expanding it so they could
make it into a video for the station when I did their whole News
package and station promos. Also did "Let's Go Fishing", "Hawaii's
Kitchen" for KHON and a bunch of others.

Are you from Hawaii Will?

If you come over for a visit, I'll show you around all the newest
studios and Hawaii Convention Center (I was the state's consultant for
all the audio and acoustic design from design to completion).

Aloha Brah!
Audy O


ospam (WillStG) wrote in message ...
(Audy

Oceanway (L.A.) Studio A had a 72 input Focusrite, one of the first. I
tracked on it and it was awesome. I still miss the custom DiMedio in
Studio B though. The sound of an Ampex ATR-124 through those 2
consoles was BIG! I hope they haven't been chopped up and sold.

So where do you work when you record in Honolulu Audy?

BTW, I know you wrote that "One of the good things about Hawaii" KGMB jingle
that I still have stuck in my head from when I was a kid, but did you also
write that Illikai Hotel jingle "It just happens to be happening"? My old
jazz guitar teacher, the late Bill Valdez used to love that one...

Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
Audioist / Fox News
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits