Astral Sounds Recording
San Jose, California
Opened 1977, Closed 1996

Astral Sounds Control Room, Circa 1989 - not a computer screen
to be seen!

Astral Engineering Staff, 1985. Apparently color film hadn't been
invented yet.
From Left - Hector Toro, Bill Hare, Randy Musumeci, Jeff Tracy
(seated)

The old 16 track console - Quad-Eight/Electrodyne custom built
for Capitol Records
Hollywood (Studio B), used to record Steve Miller's Joker Album
in 1972 and
many hits thereafter. Retired from Capitol and brought to Astral
in 1984.

Bill and Jeff behind the console. Piano in foreground is the same
one in Bill's current studio.

The live room (AKA "The Chop Shop") with a 16 foot ceiling
and full stage.

3M M56 16 track, serial number 17 (1970) and our 816 point patch
bay.

Bill does some backing vocals. Note the 1970s old-school headphones!

Control room revamped, 1989
Soundtrax CMX 4400 32 channel console + Otari 24 track tape machine
installed.



Views of the main recording room


Client Lounge upstairs

Kitchen off client lounge

Ad from Ricoh featured in Mix, Electronic Musician, and other
trade magazines
every month in 1994-95. Note a 2X CD recorder for an "attractive"
price of $1095!
I got one free to pose for this pic, so I was glad to be their
poster boy!