“If you want to go to the studio and spend $2,000 a day, take that and buy a laptop and a sample library or tell AI what song you want to make”: As the Record Plant looks set to close, an engineer says “there is no money in the recording music business”

Record Plant Hollywood.

Reports suggest that Hollywood’s iconic Record Plant studios, a fixture in the area since 1969, is set to close.

The Los Angeles Magazine says that the closure has been confirmed on social media and by former employees. It marks the end of a more than 50-year stay for the Record Plant in Hollywood, which saw the studio being used to record a string of classic albums. These include Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, The Eagles’ Hotel California, Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction and Beyonce’s Lemonade.