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Sonic Ranch, in the border town of Tornillo, Texas, is the world's largest residential recording studio complex.〔 There are five world-class studios designed by Vincent Van Haaff〔(Waterland Design LLC )〕 on a pecan orchard〔 which borders the Rio Grande and Mexico. Located east of El Paso, Texas, in the border town of Tornillo,〔 there are five houses on the property where artists stay while recording. The studio was founded in 1989 by the current owner/director Tony Rancich〔 around a large traditional Spanish hacienda, which is an adobe structure that was built in the late 1930s,〔 with pine-tree vigas as the ceiling structure. Some rock bands have noted the calm, rural wilderness and easy access to Ciudad Juárez across the border.〔〔〔〔 ==Studio complex== The Neve Control Room (designed by Vincent Van Haaff) features an 80-channel vintage Neve 8078 Console with 31105 mic pre/EQs.〔(Sonic Ranch recording studios -:-:- FUTURE STYLE -:-:- electronic machines and trend artists MUSIC magazine )〕 The left side of this console was the original West Coast Motown board which was used to record many Motown artists,〔 including Diana Ross, The Temptations, Gladys Knight, Bubba Knight, G. C. Cameron, James Jamerson, Marvin Gaye, and The Jackson 5. Madonna purchased the console〔 and had it in her studio Brooklyn in Hollywood in the early 1990s, where Yoshiki Hayashi purchased and put it together with another 8078 into its present form by Pat Schnider〔(redwoodweb.com mobile )〕 and Wess Dolly. Sonic Ranch acquired this console in 2006. The Big Tracking Room that is connected to this control room is and has ceilings. There are two isolation booths in the Big Tracking Room and two isolation booths in the large Control Room. The A Studio, which was the first studio to be established at Sonic Ranch, is partially subterranean and features a 40-channel E/G SSL console with vintage Neve outboard mic pre/EQs and has four tracking rooms with differing acoustics and dimensions. The Stone Room is a five-sided room made of travertine stone, with a slanted latia ceiling which optimizes acoustic diffusion.〔〔 When stripped of baffles and carpets, it serves as an echo chamber during mixdown. The center tracking room, leading to the Drum Room, has carpets and absorbable material between the traditional vigas in the ceiling structure which shortens the decay time in the room and makes it suitable for vocals and electric guitar tracking. The Drum Room has a wood floor,〔 a slanted wood ceiling and wooden doors which can be opened or closed to adjust the ambiance of the room. The top room, which descends into the control room, contains a 1978 K. Kawai piano and a 1961 Hammond B3 with Leslie.〔 The Adobe Studio was designed by Vincent Van Haaff within a hundred-year-old adobe structure with a vaulted wooden ceiling. It contains a vintage Neve 8088 console with Class A 31102 mic pre/EQs which were designed by Rupert Neve in 1977.〔(Sonic Ranch ropes world's first Masterpiece )〕 The Adobe Tracking Room is and has geometric ceiling panels, corner and half rounds, and massive ceiling trusses to enhance acoustic diffusion. This studio is on a property that contained one of the original "Custom House" crossing points from Mexico into the United States. The Mix Room was designed by Vincent Van Haaff〔 and is in the left wing of the original Spanish hacienda. It is wide and deep and contains a 64-channel SSL G/G+ console. It resides next to the swimming pool in the hacienda patio. The Mastering Room is in the center section of the Spanish hacienda and is wide and deep. It features a Rupert Neve-designed Masterpiece.〔 The Mastering room has wooden panels and colorful fabrics from Brussels and Paris woven into its acoustical design. This room contains two of the 30 original Salvador Dalí lithographs which, along with artwork by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Marc Chagall, are dispersed throughout the complex in an "art reflects and inspires art" motif. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sonic Ranch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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