Ocean Way Studio Monitors

[mrid88in]

Hi
I am posting a picture of the ocean way studios.Looks like RCA Ubangis and RCA radial horns.
I am given to understand that they are marketing these monitors and the price is about $120,000.
The components used are not disclosed but I was informed that the mid driver is a JBL,and the HF is an Altec 1 inch compression driver turned around and used like a alu.dome driver .

Four OWA Mid Bass Front Loaded Horn Enclosures, Eight Alnico Five 15" Mid Woofers, Four OWA Sub Bass Enclosures, Eight Alnico Five 15" Sub Bass Woofers, Two OWA 400Hz 90 Degree Radial Horns with Dual Throats, Four 20,000 Gauss Drivers, Two Direct Radiating HF 2" Aluminum Dome Tweeters with Mylar Surrounds and 18,000 Gauss Magnet Structures, One OWA Stereo Electronic Crossover, Two OWA 28 Band Equalizers, One 2000 Watt Stereo Sub Bass Amplifier, One 1000 Watt Stereo Low Bass Amplifier, Two 400 Watt Stereo Mid and HF Amplifiers. ($120K)

Regards
Rajiv

[mbd7]

I you're trying to market these they really need to be placed in the "Marketplace" Section of this forum.

:blink:

[mrid88in]

HI
I am not trying to market these monitors.
I have no connection with Ocean Way studios.I posted the above information because I thought that members would find it interesting that a highly regarded cutting edge studio is using speaker designs from the 40's. with vintage components.
Regards
Rajiv

[JSF13]

Thanks for the post. I for one found it so.:)

[Titanium Dome]

Rajiv

That's quite a package and quite a room. That SSL console is supposedly the largest of its kind in the world.

[Steve Schell]

These systems are evidently being marketed by a pro division of the Guitar Center. Here is the web site:

http://www.gcpro.com/products_oceanway.html

[boputnam]

These systems are evidently being marketed by a pro division of the Guitar Center. :hmm:

I you're trying to market these they really need to be placed in the "Marketplace" Section of this forum.:yes: OK, done...

[pos]

I don't get it...

Should all the threads about Westlake products, Passlab, and other also be moved to the marketplace section?

[Titanium Dome]

I don't get it...

Should all the threads about Westlake products, Passlab, and other also be moved to the marketplace section?

I don't get it, either. He's clearly not selling them. I thought it was just me. :spin:

Je suis confus, aussi. Il est clair qu'il ne les vende pas.

[pos]

Je suis confus, aussi. Il est clair qu'il ne les vende pas.
Votre francais est parfait! Vous avez vécu en france?

[Titanium Dome]

Tristement, non.

J'ai été interviewé sur France24 par Thierry Vivier à Los Angeles.

Maybe someday I will come to your beautiful France.

And Rajiv, someday I will come to India, too.

[pos]

Maybe someday I will come to your beautiful France.N'hesitez pas à me contacter si vous passez dans les environs, je serai heureux de vous recevoir!

[JohnK]

Ocean Way is well known for for utilizing the best of vintage technology for their purposes. Allen Sides had the most amazing collection of vintage mics, Pultecs and Langs I'd ever seen. At one time he was using Marantz 9's in the playback system.

[Titanium Dome]

John

Have you been lucky enough to be there?

[JohnK]

Yes,

A long time ago (20 years?), during the AES convention in Anaheim, a free bus tour of Hollywood recording studios was organized for the attendees on a Saturday morning. Ocean Way was on the circuit. Allen Sides was very nice & lead the tour of Ocean Way himself. The old Western Recorders was still next door at the time & had all the 60's equipment still in place!

I don't know if they still have the tours during the conventions anymore.

[glen]

I don't know if they still have the tours during the conventions anymore.

They still are doing it this year in New York:
http://www.aes.org/events/123/tours/
Friday
Session TT1 TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ART’S CLIVE DAVIS DEPARTMENT OF RECORDED MUSIC
Session TT2 AVATAR RECORDING STUDIOS
Session TT3 KLAVIERHAUS

Saturday
Session TT4 LEGACY RECORDING STUDIOS
Session TT5 4 TIMES SQUARE BROADCAST COMMUNICATIONS
Session TT6 BLUE MAN GROUP LAB

Sunday
Session TT7 NEW YORK TIMES RADIO STATION WQXR
Session TT8 QUAD RECORDING STUDIOS
Session TT9 SEAR SOUND STUDIOS
( I got to record at Sear Sound once long ago, still remember the blast of hot air when they opened the closet full of tube amps powering the monitors)

Monday
Session TT10 BROOKLYNPHONOY
Session TT11 BROADWAY SOUND

[glen]

Looks like RCA Ubangis and RCA radial horns.

The Ubangi style cabinets are a new one on me. :blink:
The the monitors that I had associated with Allen Sides and Ocean Way were the next few pictures down. They look basically like the bass section of the standard Augspurger monitors (reflex cab with 2x15 toed in), but turned upside down with a TAD4001 horn on top