The Tera Shirma Story
Studio B

Milan Bogdan in Studio B Control Room
(picture courtesy Fred Saxon)

There was still a considerable amount of work to be done in the building, but it was decided that the studio was basically ready and on February 10th 1968, Studio B had it's first session. 

It was a string session for Sussex Productions, with Mike Theodore and Dennis Coffey producing. From what I remember, things went well but immediately after the session Milan told me he needed to shut it down again. 

The cue system still needed some work. Meanwhile the studio had gotten heavily booked, so we had a lot of re-arranging to do.

I should say a word here about Milan Bogdan. Milan is a technical wizard, besides being a great recording engineer. If Milan wasn't happy about something then he would change it. Definitely a perfectionist. So when you have a perfectionist working for you, you let him act like a
perfectionist.

A personal note here...in the reviewing of all this information regarding the building of Studio B it has just really hit me what we did there in a relatively short period of time. 

We converted a deserted bank building into a complex recording studio. The amount of work that was done to
accomplish this blows my mind. Like I said earlier...I had great people working for me.


Notes thanks to Ralph Terrana

 


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