[1] Originally constructed by Bill Putnam in the 1960s, the studios are currently owned by sound developer Doug Rogers and managed by Candace Stewart.

Careful to preserve the integrity of the original recording facilities, Starck and Rogers implemented a brand-new design to create "a place where artists can meet, mingle, and be inspired".

[1] Studio 1 features a live room which is 58' × 42', an isolation booth measuring 20' × 23', 9' Bechstein piano, concert lighting system and one of a limited number of classic Neve 8078 consoles remaining in the world today.

[11] In the early 2000s, Rogers (head of EastWest Sounds) and Nick Phoenix (co-founder of Two Steps From Hell) conceived the EastWest/Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra orchestral sample library.

[11][13] Since then, EastWest Sounds offices have been located at the studios,[14] and the company's virtual instruments, from the Hollywood Orchestra series, recorded at Studio 1 with some of Hollywood's film score orchestral session players and engineer Shawn Murphy, to numerous genre-specific collections, are recorded there.