The Les Paul Recording Studio – a state-of-the-art recording facility honouring electrical guitar pioneer Les Paul – has opened in Hollywood, California.

Situated within the well-known United Recording constructing at 6050 Sundown Boulevard, the power boasts “meticulously restored” unique tools, together with the customized eight-channel mixing console constructed within the ’60s by Les Paul himself and Rein Narma, in addition to fashionable items of substances, too.

Mentioned console boasts in-line equalisation and vibrato results that had been cutting-edge for its time. Alongside this sits the primary 8-track recorder ever produced – Paul’s Ampex 5258 Sel-Sync machine, identified familiarly as “The Octopus”.

This restored tools serves as an homage to Les Paul’s pioneering recording strategies which had had a profound and lasting influence on the music trade. Initially utilizing this know-how in a house studio, Paul was in a position to create layered guitar sounds and vocal harmonies together with his spouse and music accomplice, Mary Ford. This house studio, initially in Paul’s Hollywood storage, is the place Paul spent years perfecting his music and growing revolutionary recording strategies.

“We’ve painstakingly restored Les Paul’s unique gear to working situation, permitting at the moment’s artists to report utilizing the precise instruments that revolutionised in style music,” stated Michael Braunstein, Govt Director of the Les Paul Basis. “Mixed with the latest know-how and digital recording instruments, the Les Paul Recording Studio will welcome musical artists, producers, engineers and college students to a brand new and progressive studio setting that’s the solely one in all its type on the planet.”

The Les Paul Recording Studio will provide musicians a spot to report and examine music, and is described as an “supreme setting for the subsequent era of musical artists, producers and engineers to report new music, reimagine catalogues, and discover inspiration within the wealthy historical past the studio has to supply.

Be taught extra at les-paul.com.