EQ Recording Studio

As the owner of EQ Recording Studio, I am often asked what inspired me to start my own business. To explain that, I need to take you back to the beginning. When I was a teenager in 1965, I played guitar for several local bands.  And my first experience in a recording studio was with a hard rock band called Joshua. During one of our sessions, the engineer took a great interest in my guitar playing.  One day, a band next door needed a guitar player, and the engineer asked if I would be interested in recording a couple of tracks for them. The band was REO Speedwagon.   At the time, I was young and unaware of who they were, so I agreed to record a few demo tracks, which were meant to be temporary until their regular guitar player returned from vacation.  This experience led to many other projects as a studio musician and opened doors to recording in major record company studios.  Eventually, I was offered a position in a recording school program in Hollywood.  Years later, after closing the Ambassador of Arts gallery and selling my home in Bellflower, I moved to Long Beach, CA. My initial goal was to produce an audio CD book for my stage play, “Flowers For Beth.” This inspired me to create a home-based recording studio, which I built entirely by myself.  That’s how it all came to fruition. Throughout the years, after several upgrades, my journey as a recording engineer truly began.  I was also one of the first to operate a 16-track studio without a physical mixing board. In addition to recording local bands in my studio, I was frequently hired by other major recording studios as their engineer, including Westlake L.A. Recording Studio, S.I.R., Paramount, IRS Records, Capitol Records, Silver Lake Recordings, and more.  My 25 years in recording kept me exceptionally busy.  People often ask why I decided to retire. The answer is simple: I had grown weary of the unpredictable mental circus stemming from musicians' egos, entitlement, and their ignorance of the recording process. That’s why I decided to quit.