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The Christmas album recorded last year at The Sound Palace was a huge success and now The Angel City Big Band is returning to the studio for a follow up album of new arrangements for release later this spring.  Sessions may start as early as March 15th. Stay tuned.

RCA 44 ribbon microphones have remained an essential part of studio life well after RCA stopped manufacturing them in 1955. The sound and response of the 44 B/BX were unlike anything else available, and was cherished for its smoothness, forgiving nature and unique tonal balance. As collectors began to buy up the supply of RCA […]

The Angel City Big Band released its Christmas CD this week. The album, recorded at The Sound Palace, was produced by Jim Baldree and is available for purchase through the band’s website: Click Here

Farmers Insurance Group distributes periodic training videos for its nationwide employment force. Through a contract with Mothership Creative Services, the voice-over work was recorded today at The Sound  Palace.  Billy Savage handled the recording and mixing for the project.

12 year old Andrew Muccitelli, has completed his run on the television show The X-Factor and has now been accepted into the Artist Development Program jointly run by The Sound Palace and Grammy-winning  producer and songwriter Chuy Flores.   A gifted performer with a large following already on YouTube and Facebook,  Andrew can’t wait to bring […]

The past couple of weeks have seen multiple brass instruments (trumpets, trombones) in the tracking room. A microphone “shoot out” was done and the ribbon microphones were found to best capture the tone and character of the brass.  In this case it was the Royer R-121 ribbon microphones coming out on top. We have also […]

Taylor Kastan, is a 15 year old singer-songwriter who recorded her first songs at The Sound Palace earlier this year.  Since then, we have moved her into our Artist Development partnership with local producers and she has continued her artistic growth as we regularly meet to work on pre-production for her forthcoming debut album. Taylor […]

The Angel City Big Band brought in their legendary drummer John “Spoons” Spooner and finished the drum tracking sessions earlier this week. John has toured all over with Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinkand it was great having him in studio. The band has now completed recording drums, bass, and guitar.  The Brass sessions are now […]

The Angel City Big Band has begun work on their forthcoming Christmas CD at The Sound Palace.They plan on releasing a 14 song album and began tracking drums today. Legendary drummer John “Spoons” Spooner, who has toured all over the world with Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdink brought in his DW drum kit and we […]

On September 13th & 14th, PBS aired the documentary “Wings Across The Channel: Catalina Island’s Aviation History.”  This 90 minute documentary was narrated by actor Gregory Harrison at The Sound Palace and engineered by Danny Langa and Pat Murphy.  The film also stars Tony Dow. Here is a clip from the film: Click to View […]