Former Location –
These studios were the collaboration of Tommy Mottola, former CEO of Sony Music and studio designer John Storyk, co-owner of the Walters-Storyk Design Group and the designer of such recording studios as Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios.
Artists that recorded here include:
Fine Young Cannibals
Linkin Park
Katt Williams
LL Cool J
Living Colour
Virgin Steele
Twisted Sister
Killing Joke
Big Daddy Kane
Prince Paul
3RD Bass
Dion and the Belmonts
The Good Rats
Media Recording Studios
989 Jerusalem Avenue
Merrick NY 11566
Closed, empty. For rent signs on building 12/19/2023.
No note of where they went.
The studio closed sometime in 2018-2019 for good
The old man who owned the whole building passed and during covid they gutted the whole building and made it into an apartment.
I ran into two men at a bar in merrick who did the gut job. They had no clue they ripped apart of recording studio designed by one of the most famed acoustical sound designers of all time. Wild.