What made Gold Star unique from other historic studios such as Sun or Abbey Road?
A. Two major reasons: First, Gold Star offered Dave Golds custom, hand-crafted technology, studio design and what were regarded as the first perfect echo chambers along with Stans revolutionary playing the studio approach to record production as an art form – which redefined the role of record producer from mere supervisor to active creative force. As an independent studio, Gold Stars fortunes rose and/or fell on Stans and Davids ability to transform even the vaguest of creative notions into bankable reality, so their objective was to give the artist the most bang for their buck. Secondly, unlike the majority of major label operations which served only that companys roster of talent, Gold Stars independence facilitated an ever growing client base drawn from every aspect of the entertainment and communications industry. As a totally independent concern, Gold Star recorded both demos and masters, live performances, commercials, radio shows, air checks, musicals, interviews, television an
