The song Eternal Flame - Bangles has fantastic sounding vocals.
The vocals by the way they sound and the fact that the live version is a semitone down may have been recorded with Varispeed.
A search on Wikipedia revealed these beautiful voices were recorded at Ocean Way Studios.
This is no coincidence as the rooms were designed by Bill Putnam.
Another sound that quickly comes to mind is California Dreaming - The Mamas and the Papas.
Searching Ocean Way studios and then clicking images on Google reveals the Beauty.
All those panels should be for absorbing low frequencies by converting them to heat as the panels sympathetically vibrate? Are they made from linoleum? roofing felt? as on BBC and EMI studios?
Papers on studio design can be found by Putnam.
Also the story of Ocean Way when Allen Sides renamed them from United Western Recorders:
http://www.uaudio.com/blog/ocean-way-history/
There is of course a whole chapter on the studios on the excellent book referenced.
Reference:
Temples of Sound - Cogan and Clark
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