By 1993, digital recording technology had advanced to the stage that we could begin the second stage of studio would be built on the space of our rehearsal stage.  The studio was named MBH for the members of the Cerny/American’s resident comedy radio commercial group, These People Talk Funny; the members were Al Mitchell, Marie Burke and Pam Hoffman.  Like The Grand, the studio was equipped with a Class A Discrete Neve Recording console.  Our digital editing system at that time was Sonic Solutions.  Sonic flew engineers in from California to assist us in the completion of the network.  During the summer of 1993, MBH and The Grand became the first digitally networked studios.  For the first time, two separate studios were digitally linked together and could work on projects simultaneously or separately.  Our two digitally networked studios created a more powerful, faster, more efficient way to do sound production.  Sonic Solution’s engineers spread the word about our achievement, and soon studios from around the country followed our lead.  It was apparent we had created a way for several engineers to work on the same project at the same time.  One engineer could record while another edited and yet another worked on sound design and/or sound finishing.  A single facility could do an unprecedented amount of work maximizing a producer’s time.

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