"The Lazeria Jam"
https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/the-lazeria-jam

the lazeria studio was a funky place....
around 1981, the band i was in at the time, rented it for 2 weeks, as a rehearsal space for whatever the going rate for that was then.
it was fun, because we had carte blanche to the whole studio all day and night for 2 weeks.
the engineer, used us as guinea pigs while we rehearsed, he'd set up all kinds of mic arrangements and screw around with stuff in the control room, which was big enough for about 3 guys to sit/stand in, and that was it.
it really was 'a control room'….. with the requisite Lava Lamp.
LOL
i remember some really big JBL monitors, don't have a clue what they were.
basically, Lazeria was a long rectangular shaped wide open concrete block building, out in the middle of nowhere....
low ceiling, i guess about 10'.....
"shag rug" everywhere....very dead room…..sounded like you could be recording steely dan records in there.
but the cool thing, was it was wired real smart.....
with snakes strategically placed, separate headphone mixers, lots of booms and lots of gobos...
all the gobos had a carpet surface on one side, wood paneling on the other..and they were on rollers, they were easy to move and position. they were beefy, probably a foot wide. i'm guessing, 6' wide by over my head, maybe 7-8 feet tall.
you could build any size isolation area you wanted....so it was super flexible. You could make it a very reflective space, by using the wood panel sides.
the board this jam was recorded thru was a 15 series teac, into a 85-16 16 channel 1" open reel tape deck...i thought it had a marvelous sound, the playback sounded so clean and sweet.
the guys that ran the studio, had built a bunch of unique one-off mics, basically they gutted different mics of their capsules and transformers, built these big plexiglass stretched-out-hexagonal shapes, and floated the mic capsules with wire, just above the surface of the plexi, using the plexi to 'capture' the sound waves.
my guitar, and the drums, were all captured with one of these weirdo homemade microphones.
later, the engineer dubbed us a cassette of the jam.
don't know whatever happened with the reel to reel tape, probably got re-used.....

LOL... Mad! And Funky too 

hi synkotron,
glad you checked this old gem out...
 
i had a blast playing with these guys, for several years of full time road work......

Lots of fun!  I would love to have seen that studio.  It seems like nothing you do ever sounds dated, and that's something.

Great jam.  Loved the bass tone and player!  You all stand out great as well. I remember jammin' for most my early life.  Good to hear this.

Is that this Quintin Berry?
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VffYU2cNKq4
 
Regards,
Dan
 

dcumpian
Is that this Quintin Berry?
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VffYU2cNKq4
 
Regards,
Dan
 

yes, it is.
LOL
 
here we are, back in about 1981....
 

Lynn
Lots of fun! I would love to have seen that studio. It seems like nothing you do ever sounds dated, and that's something.

Lynn,
you know, we were just kids, really..... and any building that had ANY sound gear in it, was impressive to us!!
LOL,
just a cinderblock building mostly,
but being out of the city a ways, probably better that it did not look like anything special.
but one thing you say, rings true,
and that is about sounding dated......
and i guess, as long as you have a pure sound (natural room vibe, clean recording) and use a basic good balanced sound source,
and don't use long huge gated reverbs on your snare drums................!!
HEHEH
 

Rimshot
Great jam. Loved the bass tone and player! You all stand out great as well. I remember jammin' for most my early life. Good to hear this.

the bass player, quintin, use a really nice Alembic on that recording (see the old photo above)...
it had a special cable connection, looked like an XLR built right into the bass, and it went thru a special preamp just for that bass, then he went direct into the board.
you could cop ANY tone you wanted from that bass.
but it excelled in funk slap style, which quintin was/is really good at.
 

Woo Hooo! Man, both the track of the jam and the Ditto looper were fun! LOL
What guitar are you playing in the pic?
Being 66, I started out in '63 playing everything on the radio at gigs in Chicago, till the hippie thing hit, then it was jam bands for a long time! LOL     I can't imagine hearing any of that stuff now. I certainly don't have any and an old room-mate sent an 8 mm film of a show at the U of I, Chicago ca '69, but no sound. Oh well, it was fun to see my '68 LP Custom and Twin's with JBLs.
We rented a loft space along the river (the one Mayor Daley dumped green stuff in every St Patty's)and that was very handy, though we could only play there from 6pm till 7:30am (which we did!). After that we bought a summer camp in South Haven MI with a bunch of artists and professor types. That was very cool and extremely loose.
Michael
 

So, I posted the above and went to read a review of an interface, that led to a review of a Great River ME-1NV, which led to this one by you, Rob! I laughed out loud and thought "you're everywhere!". LOL
http://www.prostudioreviews.com/line6-am4.htm
 
Michael