Sigma sound studio11/19/2023 What background did your dad have to make him decide to open his own studio? He came because he had power tools that my dad didn’t have and they rebuilt around what Emil had.” We had our whole family there, my cousins and my dad and Vince Montana came from the South Soul Orchestra (Vince recently passed two years ago). I remember I was 11 and it was during the summer or weekends, but I remember tearing up carpet and taking things off the wall, scraping. The original studio sat on top of, I think what was a sewing machine store, on the first floor. I always thought Dad bought the studio from Emil. Emil sold the studio to two Italian guys that had a small studio, I just got this from my father cause nobody really knows it, up in the northeast. He could throw a microphone up and the stuff would sound good. My dad said he was one of the best engineers he ever heard. They did a lot of work in the city and Emil was really well-known. There was a studio called Reco Art Studios that a man called Emil Corson owned. Then Cameo Parkway was getting sold to Allen Klein, you know the Beatles, Stones, Allen Klein (they have the catalog now). “He had worked at Cameo Parkway and finally became chief engineer over there. You and your family have a rich, musical history in Philadelphia with your father, Joseph Tarsia, being the founder of Sigma Sound Studio. I’d also like to thank my guest contributor (and travel partner that day), Paul Girard. I was honored to talk to Mike Tarsia about the legendary Sigma Sound Studio that his father Joseph Tarsia founded.
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