We can also use the whole upstairs lounge area as an iso booth. We have it wired for headphones and mic lines out there. But if you've got the right kind of attitude you can record whatever you want. It is a warehouse and it can be kind of noisy at times. I've recorded a couple of different choirs up here. It's also great if you have a lot of people. Yeah, we do that - gang vocals and handclaps and the odd trumpet or big guitar solo. LC: Can you throw things out in the big side room too? We can set everybody up with their amps right in front of each other or we can spread everybody out, utilize the booths and closets and get some isolation. The studio we built is big enough that we can do it live performance style. After I finished that record I thought, "I'll have to do better than that." We changed the ceiling and built one iso-booth (for a year or so) and then I built the second booth and got the grand piano. It was a live record and it worked out pretty well, even though it was a really ambient, square space. Initially I did a record in here with King Wilkie, a bluegrass group from back east. At first it was a big, square room - very live. It had 14-foot ceilings, which got dropped down to 10 feet just to hide all of the ducts and sprinklers.
The actual studio area was like a carport inside the warehouse. We put in proper walls, air conditioning, ventilation and dropped the ceiling. But over the last four years we built what we needed to build, rooms within rooms. It started as just an empty warehouse - 5000 square feet. So we start walking around the giant warehouse (full of amazing instruments) and studio space (with classic Neve 8048 console) Jim has put together. That joint is now known as PLYRZ Studios in Valencia,California - right across the freeway from the Magic Mountain amusement park! Our pal Jason Hiller helped set this interview up, drove us to Jim's and even put us up - it turned out his former band, The Freewheelers, had done an album years ago with Jim Scott engineering and mixing. With the music business undergoing so many changes these days, a few years back Jim made the wise move from freelance producer/engineer to studio owner and created himself a place to work.
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