Kalle L.
August 13th 04, 10:54 AM
Hi there,
This summer, I had a pleasure of visiting Sun Studios in Memphis, TN
for the second time in my life. The place is now really taken care of
properly: there is a nice tour with a funny and informative tour guide
(the guy is a musician himself), and they have built a museum room
upstairs with original gear from used in the studio in the 50's. I've
always been a huge Elvis fan and somehow Sun Studio was always THE
neatest EP-related place...sure gave me some shivers down my spine
when I looked at those original wall tiles and imagined the music that
was created there in the 50's.
Aaanyway, I just though that some might be interested to know that it
is still actually used a studio. You can rent it for $75/hour,
engineer included. Wouldn't it be cool to record there... to make your
own 'Sun Single' :) Perhaps they'd still let you use Shure 55 that
Elvis used in his recordings (that's still there on display).
Here's some info about the original gear if someone's interested:
http://www.scottymoore.net/studio_sun.html
Kalle
This summer, I had a pleasure of visiting Sun Studios in Memphis, TN
for the second time in my life. The place is now really taken care of
properly: there is a nice tour with a funny and informative tour guide
(the guy is a musician himself), and they have built a museum room
upstairs with original gear from used in the studio in the 50's. I've
always been a huge Elvis fan and somehow Sun Studio was always THE
neatest EP-related place...sure gave me some shivers down my spine
when I looked at those original wall tiles and imagined the music that
was created there in the 50's.
Aaanyway, I just though that some might be interested to know that it
is still actually used a studio. You can rent it for $75/hour,
engineer included. Wouldn't it be cool to record there... to make your
own 'Sun Single' :) Perhaps they'd still let you use Shure 55 that
Elvis used in his recordings (that's still there on display).
Here's some info about the original gear if someone's interested:
http://www.scottymoore.net/studio_sun.html
Kalle