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Hyde Street Studios
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Categories: Professional Services, Recording & Rehearsal Studios [Edit]
Neighborhood: Civic Center/Tenderloin245 Hyde St
(between Eddy St & Turk St)
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 441-8934
Now Offering Recording Classes!
This August Hyde Street Studios will start offering recording classes designed for musicians working in project studios.
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8 reviews for Hyde Street Studios
What a fantastic experience it is recording in this studio, which is so well equipped, staffed with SERIOUS talent, and exudes San Francisco music history. I felt like I was trodding sacred boards in the recording studio.
The engineering, creativity and feedback is fantasic; our band felt that the engineer totally "got" what we wanted and actually "got" it better than we did......LOL. He was as much an artist and as creative and a part of the recording as any or all of us were.
My favorite little moment; listening to a play-back and though it was adequate, not really liking the conga playing I had done on one particular "turn-around." (You know, that hearing one thing in your head and oops, playing something else). Engineer asks if I'd like to re-do it. Put on the headphones, he plays me a bar or two into the turnaround, I play through it, and he seamlessly splices (well, wrong term these days) that one little part into the recording so you would never know it was re-recorded. Fun. Very cool.
We felt listened to and taken as seriously as any major artist who has recorded there would have been - genuine talent and effort expended on our behalf regardless of "name" recognition (LOL...or lack thereof).
This place just exudes magic and music and history. A San Francisco institution.
My band, Festizio, is currently finishing its first studio album in historic Hyde Street Studio C with engineer, Jaimeson Durr. While the long studio days were excruciatingly tough, it's been a fantastic experience. Also, recording on a grand piano in Studio A, where artists like PJ Harvey, Prince, Green Day, Tupac, Shaq (I don't know...) and more have recorded, was a momentous occasion in and of itself. Most importantly, the atmosphere is friendly and professional, and the crackwhores outside pretty much keep to themselves.
Highlights
- Getting asked by a hobo if I had a girlfriend.
- Realizing the hobo was actually asking all of us.
- Being upset and not speaking to hobo for days until hobo learned to appreciate my company.
- A culinary tour of TL eateries during lunch breaks.
- Seeing shit in a crate and pondering what it really meant to me spiritually.
- Successfully backing out of the thin driveway without scratching my car (yes, I have a car... how many times are you going to act surprised?).
- Accepting hobo forgiveness over a select sampling of crack rocks and diet cola.
- Recording an album.
http://festizio.fuzz.com
Staff is cool and the studios are nice with that cool 70's vintage vibe. Keane and Gerald covered everything, along with many statements of "Festizio rules."
It's in the tenderloin, but they made so loading and unloading is in a secure area. You still get yelled at, but at least it's from behind a fence.
Some random crackhead: "You guys got a girlfriend?"
Us: Just ignore.
Some random crackhead: "Want one?"
No, she wasn't hot. No, she wasn't a she.
There's Satriani memorabilia everywhere, not sure if that's cool or not.
I'm sure Tupac's scuff marks are still on that hardwood floor. Especially since many think he's still recording. Hell, we all know those scuff marks are fresh. Dave Chapelle made it a point for a reason.
Festizio rules.
Hyde St. Studios is another of SF's storied recording facilities, with a long rich history and a who's who of artists and clients that have laid down tracks here--ranging from Digital Underground to Green Day, and from the Grateful Dead to George Clinton. Heck, they've even had guys like Shaquille O'Neil, Tupac and metal mavens Heathen record here, not to mention Joe Satriani has practically lived here since moving from my neck of the woods in NY.
Of course, the facility has top-tier gear (their Neve recording consoles date back to the late 1960's, with the lovely warmth they bring to tracks), that combines vintage stuff with the very latest in technology to capture/enhance the sounds that artists are creating.
I've had the pleasure of working with a couple bands here, particularly with local producer Bill Cutler. Cutler has worked with a slew of local acts over his long career, many of which were using his skills as a producer who gets great recordings for bands with little or no budget to move up to label deals and big budgets. He never really had the big breakout hit act that catapulted him into the ranks of more well-known uber-producers, but trust me when I say that his recordings are immaculate.
Bill also has been in a few bands himself, and been signed to a couple major labels, also as a solo artist. Again, he's never had a big monster hit record, so he's one of SF's best kept secrets. However, he's had some tracks in the archives (plus a few newer ones) that he did with none other than Jerry Garcia, of the aforementioned Dead, as well Jorma Kaukonen (Hot Tuna), Jerry Miller (Moby Grape), and another Dead alumni, Bob Weir. After a long, protracted negotiation with the Garcia Estate, Bill's new full-length disc is due out by years's end.
Since Bill has had a long association with Hyde St., including doing some of this record here, Reality Check TV has been tapped by him to shoot a Q&A session at the facility for inclusion on the disc as a CD-Rom type deal for listeners to get some background and history after hearing the tracks themselves.
Once again, a long-standing relationship and our expertise comes to the fore, and we add another credit to our ever-expanding resume'. Plus, we get to shoot in what is becoming an SF landmark!
Gotta love that!
i'm pretty sure keane covered everything already (keyword festizio). for me, i'm just stoked by the fact that i got to record in a real recording studio. that simple fact blew my mind completely - the rest is all frills. also, we recorded in studio A, the same room that creedence clearwater recorded in. later, we did some recording in studio C, which is where tupac once walked as a member of digital underground. honestly, i'm still having some trouble getting over that. that's too much awesome for me to handle.
i will say this: recording here has been an educational experience for me, from the perspective of being a tenderloin virgin. having never actually spent any appreciable amount of time in the TL before, i was thrust very suddenly into what can only be described as the yeasty vagina of san francisco - a crusty, foul-smelling cavern stuffed with more drugs in plain sight that i've seen since the co-ops near my college. i saw someone shooting up heroin for the first time in my life. i saw a drug deal go down not more than ten feet away from me. i saw shit in a upturned milk crate outside a vietnamese sandwich shop. that pretty much ruined my sheltered suburban sensitivities, and i felt a great need to be back in the calm and sterile warmth of the south bay. but that's the TL for you i guess. it's charming, in a way.
anyway, i had a lot of fun recording here. i like this place. the staff are really cool and professional. jaime durr is one of the hardest working guys i've ever met, and he truly knows his stuff. i recommend him in a heartbeat.
festizio rules.
I used studio A ten years ago and it was great. Neve board, amazing room.
I was in studio C a few months ago doing some editing. Great sounding room. Great outboard gear. I'm hoping to get in there again soon. Engineer Jaimie Durr is a protools whizard.
There's some talk about HSS closing. Hope it doesn't happen. :(
Update: HSS is NOT closing. Yay!
http://www.hydestreet.com/
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{According to Polk's 1953 San Francisco directory, Twentieth Century Fox Film was located here.]
Are you kidding me? I can't believe no one has reviewed this legendary studio. Its the place to record your musical dream.
great professional service, the gear list is filled with amazing stuff and its a bay area legendary recording studio!
