Building Ownership
Established in the late 1950s by audio engineer Bill Putnam, the complex operated as United Western Recorders from 1957 to 1985, when Putnam sold it to his partner Allen Sides, who renamed it Ocean Way Recording. In 1999, Sides sold the Western section of the complex to computer magnate Rick Adams, who renamed it Cello Studios. At the beginning of 2006 Cello Studios was purchased by EastWest producer Doug Rogers and renamed EastWest Studios. Rogers extensively remodeled the non-technical areas of the studio complex with designer Philippe Starck, but the studios themselves, with their famous acoustics, remain as originally built by Putnam in the 1960s and continue to operate to this day.
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