1726. Carbonite Studio in Ojai, California

[@pattizlaket]

I am the lucky duck artist who got to spend TWO days recording my music with the Masters of the Universe. Lee, THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR GIFTS WITH ME! Can't wait to share the album with everyone! xoxoxo

[@BlackCouchstudio]

My boy Jason, the mad scientist at Carbonite. Such a stellar studio and equally as stellar producer and engineer.

[@bradb2514]

This tour was fantastic! Loved seeing the artists. 🤟🤟🤟🤟👍👍

[@suecorrigan]

Really neat place, Lee!! 😃 🎨 🖼 Thank you for this wonderful treat!! Please be careful out there with those California wildfires 🔥🙏❤ Love you, bunches!! 🥰🤗🎵

[@m1nn1s]

Evening Leland 💖 🧙🏼‍♂️ ☮️ Thanks for the special studio of Ojai ,Cali 🇺🇸 ☮️ ... Healing energy ⚡ to Maureen ✨ and the boys 🐾 🐾 🐾 🧙🏼‍♂️ ☮️ 🤗 💖

[@slipperynoodle20]

Hi, Andy! I got to do that first for a change😅

[@splashesin8]

M1nn1s & Tom! 🤗

[@m1nn1s]

@@slipperynoodle20 Hi Tom, Well done 🇺🇸, as Leland says... it's not a competition, it's ART 🎨 😍💖🎶🎸🇬🇧 🛥 ⛵ 🌊 🧙🏼‍♂️ Hope you and yours are well, 09/15 update 🇬🇧👍

[@artemisXsidecross]

Thank you for showing us this workshop for recording and the people who make it run. ☮

[@randyschiffer3265]

Art

[@artemisXsidecross]

@@randyschiffer3265 Thinking of you and everyone who might be impacted by hurricane Francine ☮

[@steven_scattergood]

Hi Artemis.☮️

[@artemisXsidecross]

@@steven_scattergood Always good to see your here ☮

[@barrywaples8150]

Evening Lee and all Greetings from Epping Uk Cheers Barry 🎸

[@dwaynewladyka577]

Greetings, Barry, from Alberta, Canada! 👋✌️

[@m1nn1s]

Evening Barry, Epping 🌳 🏍️ 🇬🇧 From Andy Whitstable ⛵ ☮️ 🛥 🇬🇧 💖

[@barrywaples8150]

Evening Dwayne of Alberta🍻​@@dwaynewladyka577

[@barrywaples8150]

​@@m1nn1sAndy🍻

[@dwaynewladyka577]

​@@m1nn1sHello, Andy! 👋✌️

[@marcdanielnelson317]

Great studio! Lots of Eric Burdon stuff done here :)

[@ndrwgrsk]

marcdanielnelson317 is that a fact I thought we might have got a bit of history on the place ✌️💜

[@dwaynewladyka577]

What a cool looking studio. Looks like a very cool music store, with all those instruments in there. I wish Maureen all the best. Cheers, Leland! 🙏✌️

[@armignac]

Everywhere you are is fabulousand beautiful Mr Sklar! Thank you for this nice Insight!

[@paulpoirier9756]

As a Canadian, it was nice to see a little bit of Canadian content in the studio. Sabian cymbals, a seat from the old Montreal forum, and I also think that Studer is now a Canadian company.

[@radcad1465]

I was sitting outside, playing trivia behind the Ojai arcade on Tuesday evening at Sam's Place. I saw someone walk by and I thought, "No way is that Leland Sklar!" 😂😂

[@carolcorrigan3130]

Hi, Leland. WOW! I have never seen so many instruments in one place. WOW!!!!

[@ronfreeman5857]

Wow!! That sound studio was gob smacking!! Just amazing what goes into it.. the Star Wars thing, added another dimension.. Thanks Lee!!😎✌❤

[@Gina-ly5bp]

Wow! Cool looking studio!

[@debbiwhitson7210]

Amazing. He has a little (or a lot) of everything. Love all the instruments and tech gear. The lighting is great. All this in Ojai, who knew!? Thanks, Mr. Sklar

[@jimgiantomasi2121]

Thank you Lee. Always enjoy your videos and greatly appreciate the time you spend to do these. That studio looks very Pro and lots of fun. Stay well my friend.

[@frankzahn1860]

to quote, "Too Much Good Stuff". Thanks, Lee!

[@splashesin8]

I've been missing everyone so much. Sometimes I feel like I'm trapped in a Raiders of the Lost Arc movie, but I need that magic bon bon from the end of the Princess Bride. So good to be hearing your voice, and the beginnings of putting something together. ❤

[@hanspeterlillese2225]

Audrey! 🌊

[@SoundsFair--M-and-J]

👋👋

[@splashesin8]

@@hanspeterlillese2225 Hans Peter, 🤗

[@splashesin8]

@@SoundsFair--M-and-J M&J 🤗🤗

[@artemisXsidecross]

Audrey, you always have a place in my heart and my mind is always near by if you think of me 💚

[@tressinar]

I could live there😂 I loved this cool video

[@John-the-Bass]

What a fantastic studio. Should be good music as a result

[@dallaswright9249]

Nice studio your the best forget the rest rock on my friend as always peace out cincy

[@jackgill2501]

Sir Lee, Good afternoon and what a fantastic studio, thank you for sharing…. Have a great day and take care!

[@trevorlindsey580]

So much fun in there. The polar opposite of Capitol. BTW, that is the best quote of the year "It's like Guitar Center without the attitude" LOL.

[@SidneyMartinez-vp8eo]

Herman Matthews of Tower of Power and East Bay Soul!

[@slipperynoodle20]

That control room! It looks like science fiction. And, is that the peanut brittle guy? Love and Thanks ❤👍❤👍

[@lelandsklar6363]

It is….

[@Austin4098]

What an amazing environment to be able to work in. And such fun folks too !! Thanks Lee.

[@whodder06]

Cool video Lee! Thanks for the trip man!!

[@doloresvelez3243]

You take us to the coolest places. Thank you.💙💙💙🙏

[@marvinmatthews4266]

I love these studio tours. Thanks, Leland.

[@BeachJazzMusic]

What a mess! It looks like my house only the stuff in there is much better than what's in my house. I love it and there seems to be such a great vibe I bet the tracks sound magical.

[@FreedomRock44]

Thanks for the TOUR...great studio and great People.

[@lavatar3562]

A great vibe and gear packed to the rafters!

[@davidmarais1048]

Wow…. Just wow. For a guy who suffers from “gear acquisition syndrome” this is a really triggering video to watch. Asked my wife to hide my credit card. So inspirational. Have a musical blast making this record. What a gorgeous space.

[@legitibitmaster3264]

Lee & Russ back in the recording business cmon never show sign slowing down yet keep rocking it lads ❤️

[@NyMyers64]

Thanks for the tour, Lee! Hope the session goes well today.

[@BOOMNERD51]

Thanks, Lee for sharing your many artistic and tech adventures in your music performing and recording career! It's a real treat! ❤

[@ToGoMania19]

Miss my visits to Bowlful of Blues in Ojai in the 1990s! Beautiful Oak trees in that area.

[@Art_Sklyar]

StarWars theme!!! ❤

[@ChefJamesRusk]

Wow!! Ojai….what a great studio….yes.. all that memorabilia…..was lucky to be with friends from Cal arts when they were working on the original pre digital animation…. The old days..HA! At an old theatre in McArthur park….Dident know it would turn into Star Wars at that time…..hundreds of hand made individual drawings…..😊…..amazing. Thank you for the tour Leland…. Carbonite!! Always wonderful….🌹🪷🌹🪷🌹🪷🥰 🖕🖕🖕🖕👍🙏❤️

[@splashesin8]

Now you've done it. 😊 I have to pause catching up here, and go sing with Donna Summer, and think if Jimmie Webb. Like the circles that you find, in the mirror balls of our minds. Sort of interposing this all with the Star Wars theme. 🎶🎵Spring, was never waiting for us, Da Dah Da dah Dah, it vanished...

[@FreedomRock44]

Love that they have an ODE to Star Wars!!!! Don't trip on Hans fingers!!!!!!

[@marvinmatthews4266]

I noticed at around the 10:00 minute mark, you showed a Montreal Canadiens seat from the old Montreal Forum. Wow!

[@lelandsklar6363]

👍🏼

[@Bobstern]

I was thinking of Guitar Center a nano second before you mentioned it. On steroids..and I bet it all works. Cool studio..

[@buzzsmith8146]

Wow. So unusual for a studio decor!

[@patrickjames1080]

Brilllllliant - thanks for sharing ⛵️ 👍

[@tomcoryell]

The most lunchbox modules I’ve ever seen in a studio. Also, every guitar had a tuner. That’s how my little studio rolls as well. No time wasted plugging in or looking for a tuner.

[@rogerfernandez3775]

Thank you for sharing this, Sir.

[@carolmoline6490]

Enjoyed this very much ❤

[@Padoinky]

So cool to hear very intelligent and obviously passionate people discussing their work and the related ecosystem, it makes me feel sad for those that lack the ability/aspirations/opportunities to find & pursue their own passions and dreams…

[@gustavoviveros8394]

Wonderful!!! Thanks for share 👌🏻

[@BasicDrumming]

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

[@kateconway-hickman5945]

Cool, thank you! 😊

[@Jason-cm6uh]

The two old guys from the Muppets should be in the control room. They always shit talked after the band played.

[@SimulacronX]

Wow. Thanks for the cool footage. Have a great time.

[@RalphOnofrio]

Fantastic......Keep on swinging....Great to see this..........Ralph Onofrio

[@johncopeland3826]

I think it's high time that the person who cleans and dusts this fantastic studio Mr Sklar , should get a nice chunky bonus ...talk about working like a Trojan ..Jeez !

[@vancedylan5842]

Great space Lee!

[@davidmurphy5647]

all the guitars remind me of blackbird. but this place has the 'rizz', as the kids say. that synth area has me drooling- juno-60? sweet. and the wall of synths reminds me of paich and porcaro on the first toto tour- 79? i saw them, and they had those massive walls of patch cables everywhere. those were the days, eh? and i saw a RE-201 in there. is that right? cool...where's the conn strobe tuners? cool ass place lee....

[@TFinSF]

OH, Hi! ! 😀 Edit: "Ojai" is a Chumash name for "moon."

[@kjbunnyboiler]

Evening Leland👍👍

[@m1nn1s]

Evening KJ - BB 🧙‍♂️ ☮️ 💖

[@lelandsklar6363]

Hey there!

[@kjbunnyboiler]

@@m1nn1s hi m1nn1s, hope you’re well👍👍

[@m1nn1s]

@@kjbunnyboiler thanks KJ-BB 🧙🏼‍♂️ ☮️ 🤗 💖 OK, today, best regards to you and yours ✨ ⭐ 💫

[@zemezee8883]

nice very nice !!!

[@JanKloseNielsen]

Wow here`s a lot of things ! Kind regards Yan

[@SoundsFair--M-and-J]

👀👀 Thanks for the tour!!! So, you ran away from home during the record/near record heat...🤔. Clever strategy. Congrats on the improved temps. The show on Sunday seems to be the biggest secret on KZbin. Anybody got any video?

[@FreedomRock44]

Leland.......your sign on the wall!!!!!

[@hanspeterlillese2225]

Hilsner! ✋🤓

[@randyschiffer3265]

I kept expecting to see Dr. Smith and the robot appear "Danger Will Robinson, danger." "Ohh the pain, the pain."

[@jstnxprsn]

I recorded at a studio in Ojai about 40 years ago, so I'm wondering if this is what that studio has grown into? Any idea how long they've been around, Lee? It's not like Ojai is big enough to support a lot of studios.

[@Dangrimm1]

would have been Zircon Sky back then, but yeah likely the same space.

[@jstnxprsn]

@@Dangrimm1 Wow! Thanks.

[@steven_scattergood]

What a place and no wonder Lee you were like ‘a kid in a candy store’..☮️

[@katrenashields2242]

Awesome 😎

[@FreedomRock44]

Uhhhhhh huh huh huh huh!!!!!!!! Statler and Waldorf!!!!!!

[@reinaldonoria8489]

Hola como estas saludos desde Uruguay 🇺🇾

[@melissaward6311]

Cool place

[@morbidmanmusic]

If I had that many guitars onthe wall, they'd all be wired in to a mixer for ambient reverb.

[@Kevin-mx1vi]

That's not a studio, it's a musical rummage sale ! 😂

[@antiskeptic]

So, they only handle Solo acts there? lol

[@stephenspencer4672]

Ojai CA , the fictional childhood home 🏡 of The Six Million Dollar 💵 Man , Steve Austin and The Bionic Woman Jamie Sommers. 😊

[@KittyCarlile-490]

O Hi, Leland Ojai is fun and relaxing. Friendly folks

[@artemisXsidecross]

Good to see you here ☮

[@splashesin8]

🤗

[@bangosdemangos416]

5:23 Spinal Tap Stonehenge . . . 🤣

[@lowdownfender]

Montreal Canadians hockey seat white section from the Montreal Forum. They auctioned the seats off after the Canadiens moved the newe Bell Centre... wow how did that get to Cali??

[@randyschiffer3265]

That studio is an embarrassment of riches.

[@artemisXsidecross]

Leland even remarked that it looked like 'Guitar Center', but these days recording studios are equipped idea starters for people who might come in with not much to start with. Hardly the beginning of what was recorded music history. ☮

[@richardlynch5632]

😎👍👍 😎✌👍❤🖖 Love Brother

[@FreedomRock44]

Is all that functioning on that wall in that studio with all the synths?????

[@lelandsklar6363]

Everything works…..

[@doloresvelez3243]

Yang new treatment for tinnitus?

[@lindaregelean8015]

Dizzying!!!

[@splashesin8]

🤗

[@JeffHogue-em6zx]

Sorry, but if you please, who is "Patty, our artist"? Thank you.

[@lelandsklar6363]

Patti Zlaket. A really good singer, pianist and composer.

[@JeffHogue-em6zx]

@@lelandsklar6363 Oh, ok. I dug her tune, "You Need A Woman" on her "Tunes" album from 2004. Thanks.

[@toddclarke1580]

The studio is very elaborate , but honestly the vibe feels it could be a little toxic.

[@manilowmaniak]

Does Patty have a last name?

[@lelandsklar6363]

Zlaket

[@pattizlaket]

Patti Zlaket! That’s me!

[@Larkpine]

💜👩💜🎶🎶🎶🎶🎧

[@splashesin8]

🤗

[@FreedomRock44]

Lee was it Silent Running???

[@lelandsklar6363]

Loved that movie….

[@FreedomRock44]

@@lelandsklar6363 Good Movie......Too weird Rita Coolidge Love lifting me higher was on when I got your Reply!!!!!! God You all are so good on that song. Literally can feel you all in the pocket!!!!!!

[@JacksonChrist]

2368 Hills Drive

[@helenconors3899]

0110 Alessia Plains