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The Blue room is located within New York's iconic, vintage recording studio, The Magic Shop. Since 2001, the Blue Room has provided optimum quality analog to digital transfers from a wide range of mediums. Magic Shop owner , Steve Rosenthal and chief restoration engineer Warren Russell-Smith, offer innovative solutions for problematical audio material using the latest in both digital and analog technology.


The first Blue Room project in 2001 was the 22 album Rolling Stones' Remastered Series, and soon after continued with projects featuring iconic artists Frank Sinatra, Sam Cooke, and The Animals. In 2005, all the restoration work was completed for Grammy winning Jelly Roll Morton box set taken from the Alan Lomax Library of Congress recordings. In 2007 The Blue Room gave life back to a rare recording of a Woody Guthrie “The Live Wire: Performance 1949”, a recording that was taken from an audio wire. This project won a Grammy for best historical album 2007.
 

EQUIPMENT

WORKSTATIONS
PRO TOOLS HD2 24/196i/o
Mac OSX 10.4.6 Dual 2.7GHz Power PC G5, 6GB DDR SDRAM
Sonic Solutions 8-channel 24/96 Audio Workstation
Sony/Sonoma 8-channel DSD Workstation

ANALOG/DIGITAL TAPE RECORDERS
Mike Spitz Ampex ATR102 1/2" 2tk, 3tk, 4tk analog tape machine
Mike Spitz Ampex ATR102 1/4" analog tape machine
Tascam 38 8tk recorder with 2 Tascam DX-40 Analog 4tk Noise Reduction racks
Genex DSD GX-8500 multi-format recorder
Tascam DA38 digital tape recorders w/transport (2)
Studer A80 24tk analog tape machine

CONVERTERS
Meitner ADC/DAC 8 converters
Mytek Digital 8x192 ADC/DAC 24bit converters
Sony/Sonic Solutions digital I/O conversion

MONITORING
ATC SCM20 monitors
Custom Matt Wells audio monitoring console

NOISE REDUCTION
Dolby Labs 24-channel noise reduction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CLIENTS

The Animals Retrospective
Cameo Parkway 4 disc box set
Cameo Parkway solo records-7 disc series
Sam Cooke-5 Abkco CDs
Sam Cooke-Live at Harlem Square
Fugazi archives
Woody Guthrie The Live Wire and other archives
Hermans Hermits
Jelly Roll Morton-9 disc Library of Congress
Al Kooper / Blood, Sweat, & Tears-Child is the Father to the Man
Al Kooper-Super Session
Alan Lomax Collection- 50 CDs
Alan Lomax Archive-Haiti restoration project (unreleased)
Neptunes-Sympathy for the Devil remix
John Phillips / The Mamas & The Papas archive
The Rolling Stones Remastered series-22 CDs
The Rolling Stones-40 Licks
Frank Sinatra at Sands
Genevieve Waite