The Story of The Sunset Sound Bushnell Recording Console: A Board That Recorded Countless Hits

Sunset Sound began, primarily, as a go-to studio in Hollywood for recording and mixing film scores but before long it became a go-to spot for some of the biggest musical names of the day. Life has taken T Bone Burnett in a variety of other directions, the producer said, and so he no longer has a need for a fully outfitted studio. The legendary console (along with vintage microphones, mic stands, amps, and more used in the studio by Burnett) will be available from Techno Empire's Reverb shop.
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[@philipbard2333]

That water bottle on the console made me nervous.

[@DrBlues76]

Dave Grohl, you listening???

[@murraykunis3086]

what a great tribute. i worked at sunset and maintained that console in the early 80s a piece of history to be certain. in 1984 we replaced it with another legendary console, custom built by the sunset sound team, now over 35 years later is still going strong and still one of the finest sounding in the world. Sometimes lighting does strike twice. - Thanks for Paul for a review of the original board's history that you witnessed first hand..

[@MarkPritchardGuitar]

Legendary studio, the home of early Van Halen!! Thank you Sunset Sound!

[@goodboid]

Fine. You convinced me. I'll buy it.

[@Polentaccio]

So essentially all that history and it became a summing mixer to breathe a bit of life into digital recordings. I could see why he is moving it on... would be great if someone purchased it and used it to record live music, not sample replaced time aligned music summing...

[@5-leafblaze]

7 mil I'd say & didn't take less than 5. Then again, a bidding war between 2 billionaires could've fetched 17 million

[@vonslagle]

How about The Stooges “Fun House” LP? Wikipedia says recorded at Elektra Sound Recorders in Los Angeles 1970

[@davidlamie7980]

where is and who owns the bushnell console now???

[@jonathanwingmusic]

Am I the only one saddened by the way T-Bone said "I'm not making that many records anymore. Life has taken me in other directions and I no longer have need for a studio." I understand that he's getting older but it just makes me sad for him to say he's basically not going to make music anymore. 😢

[@txtele]

It takes a lot of energy to be an engineer producer in the years add up quick I understand more than I want to how a person or why a person needs to walk away at least for a little while

[@m9shamalan]

t bone, if you're reading this (and im sure you're not), API opamps are not class A, in fact their sound comes largely from the fairly large amount of crossover distortion caused by their class A/B design. perhaps you mean 'discrete'.

[@ronanzann4851]

they don't know what they mean........

[@andyharper365]

I worked on that board in the late 80s! Loved it!

[@Zakdayak]

Who has it now?

[@Partybob1]

It’s class A/B. That doesn’t mean it’s worse or better than class A just different. The API 2520 Opamp is a bipolar Opamp. (Positive and negative DC voltage) The Neve 1073 is class A (unipolar positive only) I love examples of both types of preamps.

[@m9shamalan]

yeah. so many people misuse this term. I think they mean to say discrete.

[@Partybob1]

Exactly.

[@Kevtron9000]

I have t bones autograph! I did his walk of fame star ceremony in St Louis

[@ronanzann4851]

What the hell does "pro-tools" have to do with any of this !!! ?????? ........what a ridiculous joke.

[@EvgenijGr]

That was enlightening! What are the titles of the background tracks by the way? Sound very tasty !

[@sunsetsoundrecorders]

❤️

[@8Junio76]

Who did buy the console?

[@freezydoesit2807]

These ads are the unpublished history of music. I love it!

[@caminglis53]

Beautiful! Regarding the 2520 it’s class A > class A/B output, but a classic this is similar to Neve’s 8078 BA440 card, compared to Neve’s 1073, 84, 1102, which are actually 100% class A topology. Api has really crafted history with the 2520 something that’s still great today and nice transformers that offer sweet sounding saturation!

[@keithrowe1007]

Reverb says it’s sold. But doesn’t say to who. You’d think whoever bought that thing would be telling the whole world, “come here to record.”

[@Prosegoldmusic]

anyone wanna go half

[@MichaelHattem]

More of this in-depth recording/studio history content!!!!!

[@elcasho]

Can we run M83 Hurry up were dreaming, through it please

[@ozorg]

how much is this going to be?? 100k ??

[@nathanmoore1159]

Did this sell already? I don't see it on the Reverb site.

[@FloydUpgrades]

Well done!

[@jeffrockit]

Take that drink off the console!

[@sagesliverpinksage834]

Do the weekend on synth sounds mane

[@PanekPL]

What's the song at 0:53?

[@markdevaul7538]

what is the asking price ?

[@m.o.n.d.e.g.r.e.e.n]

jensen's got the lips!

[@stevenbrown5695]

Is it still for sale

[@deanmccormick7347]

Jigsaw... ;).

[@Alexiousf]

🙄 great 👌 Sir

[@jimideez9829]

Hey, are you interested in any trades?...Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa'!!!

[@ccgbassandmore3]

I got a 48 track Behringer!!!!!!!