Chess Records - South Cottage Grove Ave. studio

KermitPickle · Post by **KermitPickle** » Sat Oct 29, 2022 12:39 pm

Wonder if anyone here has seen session pics from the first Chess Records studio? I gather they moved to 2120 S Michigan Ave in 1957, but I've been listening to this a bunch and it's from '54, so I guess it was recorded at the S. Cottage Grove studio and I can't find a lot of info about it:

https://youtu.be/t-Vokr62vlA
(I forget -- can we embed yt videos here?)

Mostly curious to see how the room was laid out, how things were miked, all that fun stuff.

Thanks!

drumsound · Post by **drumsound** » Sun Oct 30, 2022 9:28 am

Sorry, there isn't embedded video here. And your link leads to a video that isn't there...

KermitPickle · Post by **KermitPickle** » Sun Oct 30, 2022 11:33 pm

Sorry, fixed the link! (I hope)

A.David.MacKinnon · Post by **A.David.MacKinnon** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 12:30 am

No idea about the original question but this is a fun read of you're into Chess and that era of recording.

viewtopic.php?t=67577

The class notes used to be out there on the web but I can't seem to find them today.

winky dinglehoffer · Post by **winky dinglehoffer** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 7:26 am

https://www.malcolmchisholm.net/

This site has some of Chisholm's articles.

A.David.MacKinnon · Post by **A.David.MacKinnon** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 8:35 am

There we go! Thanks. It's a pleasure to read these again. So much gold in those articles.

KermitPickle · Post by **KermitPickle** » Mon Oct 31, 2022 2:00 pm

Oh that is excellent. Thanks!!!

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