![]() The Big Five manipulated Hollywood not just through their films but through their distribution of them, known as ‘vertical integration’. The Big Five resided under the Hayes Code of 1934, which limited their ‘freedom’ within cinema to sanitised violence and prudish sexual contact. David Sarnoff coined the term ‘The Big Five’ and these “dream factories” became the pinnacle of Hollywood, taught to produce a continuous stream of films that provided the audience with an escape from reality, although certain films such as Casablanca became exceptions to this rule. The Studios thrived in Los Angeles, California due to the terrain and weather of the location, which when filmed in the black and white ‘noir’ style allowed the studios to pass the locations as exotic, foreign places to the audience. “Honestly, it’s so much about what we can create for people, creating something they’re proud of, bringing their vision to life.There were five studios in Hollywood that dominated the film industry after the first world war – these being Paramount Pictures, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Warner Brothers Pictures, 20th Century Fox and RKO. Recording vocals is very vulnerable.”Īmong the studio’s proudest recordings is a video by multi-lingual hip-hop artist BBN Booda, which garnered 4 million views. “I love people developing personal relationships here and building networks. “Live music is great, but I wanted to help make recorded music come to life,” Rosmann says. Especially after COVID, “live music doesn’t pay a lot of money.”įor all its technical assets, Hi-Five, as its name implies, is about connecting with people. “We can be up and running within five minutes,” says production assistant Eli Stamstad. ![]() Readiness and efficiency is the studio’s calling card, given that studio rates are $70 an hour. There’s even a vintage Fender amp, “with just enough cigarette smoke from the ‘70s to sound good,” Rosmann jokes.Īnother isolation booth boasts a distinctive “Flex 48 Adaptive Treatment” allowing optimum sonics for virtually any instrument. Hi-Five includes a vocals isolation booth, and a spacious “live band” recording studio designed by Gavin Haverstick, with highly nuanced acoustical properties, fully equipped with expertly miked drums, a Conn organ, baby grand piano and Rosmann’s personal collection of guitars. It’s an all-analogue, versus digital, system to abide those who value the vinyl LP’s warmer sound. It was designed by the late Rupert Neve, who pioneered the transition from tube to solid-state production consoles. The operation appears highly professional, starting with a huge engineering console, with 32 channels is among the largest unit in the Midwest. Bliffert’s supplied all the lumber for this project (including 600 sheets of plywood for sound insulation) and we met our piano tuner walking his dog outside.” “We’re part of the cultural revitalizing that’s happening, and it’s such a cool, diverse, unique neighborhood. Why Riverwest? “It’s close enough to Downtown but a little quieter and Riverwest is what we’re about,” says studio owner Ryan Rosmann. Nevertheless, industry magazine Mix highlighted the 5,000 square-foot facility as one of a “baker’s dozen of the hottest new studios worldwide.” ![]() ![]() Hi-Five Studio has grown steadily since opening in 2017 in a perhaps-unlikely locale. Nestled in the cozy but vibrant Riverwest neighborhood is an anonymous, 100-year-old building containing a hive of musical activity, a studio poised for another recording session. ![]()
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