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Valley Center Studios

The BEST Rehearsal & Recording studio in L.A.!

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Valley Center Studios is a rehearsal and recording studio that has been around for 20 years. Siavash & Caroline bought it 3 years ago and fell in love with the place and the clients. VCS has the best rehearsal rooms in town, featuring private entrys, flown speakers, top of the line drums, bass & guitar amps, mixing boards and monitors. Each room has it's own bathroom & refrigerator. You can also record your rehearsal in Room B, with omni directional mikes overhead, through a great pre-amp. The sound is awesome. Complete Backline is included in rooms:Pearl or Tama star, complete Drum kit with symbols and snare, Brand new, Marshall Guitar Amps & SKR Bass amps Gallien Kruger, Crate or Peavey Bass amps, and Brand new Crate, Fender, Line 6 or Peavey, guitar amps. Each room has new 12 channel soundcraft mixers, reverb & effects, 4 shure 58 mics, 4 music stands, General and Track lighting, air conditioning.The recording studio features pro-tools mix plus, Pro-Tools 6.4, Expanded 24-bit digital audio production system, designed for high end audio production & post production. The newest model 88 Key Yamaha 8 ES. Allen & Heath GL2200 24 channel control board, *World class mixer, 4 audio groups, 22 mono channels with 2 stereo channels, 6 monitor sends controlled by 100mm faders, 4 band eq.. Mackie G4 Super Dual processor 1.25 Ghz/512/120. 888 24 bit audio interface (3). Plug ins: Waves TDM Gold Bundle. This includes thousands of dollars of A+ Plug-ins. Everything a professional needs, from daily tools, to sweetening & mastering processors. From the original Q10 & L1 to Renaissance series, to Enigma & MondoMode. Over 300 setups for musicians, recording, mixing, & mastering. Bomb Factory. Reason. Class A Pre-Amps : Avalon 737 sp Mic-pre, Features a combination of class A tube pre-amplifiers, optp compressor, sweep equalizer, output level and Vu metering in a 2U space. Creates a warm, big sound, has amazing EQ's, great for vocals. Focusrite Platinum Octopre, 8 channels: Award winning Class A pre-amp providing 8 pristine focusrite channels. Compressor/limiters on each channel. Ensures detail and clarity without coloration. Premier microphones, including Neumann, AKG, Seinheiser, Shure, EV-RE Reason, ect. and a live recording room with amazing vibe and energy to spare. Live Vocal room. Siavash puts his heart and time into any band or singer that comes into the place and nothing leaves the studio unless it sounds ready for radio. World Class Producer Available: SIAVASH Siavash is an Arist who has produced 7 Persian/World Music Albums on which he has written & produced all lyrics & music. He's sold out venues world-wide and was nominated last year on the 46th Annual Grammy nomination ballot, for 3 songs he wrote and recorded. He just finished, producing, arranging, recording and mixing the 9 song, spanish album from Herman Rodriquez titled "Es Amor".CHECK OUT OUR BLOG FOR NOVEMBER 2006 RECORDING AND REHEARSAL SPECIALS! They are amazing so book fast.
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Member Since: 7/3/2006
Band Website: valleycenterstudios.com
Band Members:

Owners: Siavash & Caroline

World Famous, Singer & Producer, Siavash

Siavash with Tom Jones & his band
Rehearsing at VCS for Tom's Sept/ 2006
performance on hit show,
"Dancing with the stars"


Siavash with famous band "Blindside" who spent 3 weeks at VCS in pre-production for their latest album.

Hit band "My Chemical Romance" also spent 2 weeks at VCS in pre-production before recording their latest smash album.


Siavash with client Herman Rodriquez, Siavash is producing the Latin Star's next album "Es Amor"

Manager & Producer, Caroline Cooley-Shams
Caroline spent 8 years as manager for Siavash. She also wrote the song "Brown Eyes" from Siavash's album "The Voice" The song made it to the 2005 Grammy nomination list. She co-produced 2 albums with Siavash, "The Voice" & "Scream"

You can check out Siavash's music and amazing fans at Siavash's Myspace page or at his website Siavash.com


Influences: Recent Clients include: Tom Jones , My Chemical Romance, Teena Marie, Taylor Dayne, ABC "Battle of the Network Stars Band, Aierto Moireira, Stephen Collins from "Seventh Heaven", Malcom Jamal Warner, The Soul Seekers including Grammy winner Warren Campbell, American Idol Band player and famous jazz guitarist Paul Jackson Junior, The Generators including stars Miguel Ferrer from "Crossing Jordan" and Bill Mumy from "Lost in Space". Check out Bill Mumys new album "In the Current". Jazz greats Everett Harp & Michael Lington. Grammy winner Ray Parker Jr. Red Hot Chili peppers parked their big ass van outside our studio when they shot their latest video for their new album. Flea even sat down and had a talk with Siavash about World Music, but they did not come in, so that doens't count. Oscar Nominated Elliott Smith had the studio right next to us before he died. He was a sweet gem of a guy, a talent with an endless heart, you should check out his music. We believe his kind spirit has touched our recordings.
Record Label: World Music Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

SONGS ABOVE RECORDED AND PRODUCED AT VCS

We hope everyone is having a great New Year! Christmas had us recording 2 amazing rockers from the past, Cherie Currie from the first all girl band "The Runaways" with Joan Jett and Lita Ford. And t...
Posted by Valley Center Studios on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:54:00 PST

BODOG MUSIC's $1,000,000 battle of the bands filmed for tv show at Valley Center Studios!

Check out the new slide for pics of Bodog Music's, million dollar batttle of the bands, rehearsing and filming at Siavash's recording and rehearsal studio, Valley Center studios/ valleycenterstudios....
Posted by Valley Center Studios on Sun, 06 May 2007 05:39:00 PST

VALLEY CENTER STUDIOS CURRENT NEWS!

RECORDING AND REHEARSAL SPECIALS!REHEARSAL SPECIALSPECIAL! BOOK 3 hours from 11:00amm-6pm For only $14.00 including backline,Monday - Friday. Must mention ad when booking!-----------------------------...
Posted by Valley Center Studios on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:05:00 PST