The building, now known as The Complex Studios, was built sometime in the 1960’s and originally functioned as a dairy factory until it was purchased by Bank of America to house an array of mainframe computers. 

In 1978, the managers of the funk group Earth, Wind & Fire bought the building to house its new American Recording Company (ARC) for planned musical distribution through CBS. They hooked up with a brilliant sound engineer/inventor from Baltimore, George Massenburg, who then built and managed George Massenburg/ARC, also called The Complex*. It was here that Massenburg designed and built his three GML Nova 8700 analog consoles and developed his legendary GML line of high-end audio equipment still in use today. The GML gear produced gold records at The Complex for ARC’s Earth Wind and Fire, as well as Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel, James Taylor and scores of others.

The Complex Studios today retains one of the Nova 8700s, still in use and available for ADR/VO and Mixing work in our Studio B. During the 80’s, The Complex added a second story to house a collection of music-related tenants, among them Joe Gastwirt’s mastering lab, which resided in what is now our upstairs conference room. It continued for a while to crank out gold records before ARC eventually sold the building to a succession of independent owners, including the first of three star-struck Japanese groups.

*not to be confused with the Hollywood-based The Complex, a building housing small theaters and rehearsals rooms. The real Complex Studios houses two Green Screen Sound Stages for virtually any SMT, Video Production.

About Greg Ladanyi - "co-founder of The Complex Studios"
Around 1980 Ladanyi expanded from just engineering into production as well. Ladanyi co-produced the Behind the Mask album with Fleetwood Mac. He also co-produced, engineered and mixed Don Henley's first two solo albums I Can't Stand Still and Building the Perfect Beast. He won a Grammy Award in 1983 in the Best Engineered Recording - Non-Classical category for Toto IV by Toto.

He married Laura Grayson-Ladanyi in 1984. He was a collaborator and co-founder of "The Complex Studios" with George Massenburg, on Corinth Ave in WLA 1987 till 1991. He co-produced Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits (WB), Jeff Healey's "See the Light" (Arista), The Church's "Under the Milky Way" with Waddy Wachtel (Arista), various Japanese artists, Clannad (RCA/BMG), Caifanes, Jaguares, REO Speedwagon (Sony), and Engenheiros do Hawaii (BMG Brazil). He traveled and worked internationally throughout the world till 1998, and managed artists under the name of Ladanyi Entertainment.
Source Article: alchetron.com

The 90’s saw a shift in business from recording to music rehearsal and big-time ADR work, to include the building’s long run with The Simpsons, among others. In 1999 the building was purchased by its current ownership, the LATV, llc group which comprises three independent TV stations, the LATV cable network and its video production / audio production arm.

Since that time, we have continued the audio post work while expanding into a myriad of video production – music videos, TV pilots, live TV, green screen & white cyc work, satellite media tours - smt, webcasting, independent films, commercial video and others, all highlighting our capacity as a true turnkey facility.

2017 has been the biggest year for The Complex Studios. Featuring two Green Screen Sound Stages perfect for serving clients budgets for SMT - Satellite Media Tours Projects and most Video production. We can make your next booking easy with our green screen package, SMT Package, Video Production Package.

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