Pro Studio Speakers

Joe Castellon, Creative Director of the Music and Sound division, says that new musicians are sometimes worried about where they fit into all this. But according to him, “you’ve got to throw that all away.”

“The most important thing is to be relaxed,” he says. “I like to make it so the musicians feel like they’re playing in their living room, or singing in the shower.”

Studio A at KAS Music and Sound is a remarkable 2,400-square foot music space capable of housing a 70-piece orchestra.

“It’s one of the last studios of its kind in the city,” says Castellon, continuously smiling through owl-eyed glasses and a Frank Zappa mustache. “The main room has 2.7-seconds of reverb.”

“[Using gobos] we can re-configure it in all sorts of ways. Each section can have its own sound. You can have the strings players sounding really wet and live on one end, while the horns stay completely dry at the other end. All the things you might do with effects you can do right here in the room instead.”

Two conjoined isolation booths that tie into the room are larger than many pro studios in their own right. They’re also a shielded by a Faraday cage, which was built into the walls by the U.S. Army when it used the building throughout World War II and the years that followed. This hidden metal meshwork keeps out radio-frequency interference – and communist spies.