Conway Recording Studios — Hollywood
Conway Recording Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles; facility scope, exact room position not pinned
2013 · album
Random Access Memories: a record built across five studios
Conway, Henson, Electric Lady, Capitol and Gang form the production geography of Daft Punk’s album, with musicians, orchestral sessions and mixing kept distinct.
Random Access Memories was assembled through a network of recording workplaces, rather than one room with one sound. Its credits name facilities in Paris, Hollywood and New York, while Mick Guzauski’s original interviews explain the tracking and mixing at Conway. Following those places reveals how live playing, recorded performances and editing could coexist in an electronic music project. The studios are connected by the record, not by an invented tour of visitor attractions.
Explore the places
Markers identify buildings or documented location references. They do not mark an exact recording room, stage position or camera angle.
- Conway Recording Studios — Hollywood — Position not yet established
- Capitol Studios — Map source
- Henson Recording Studios, former A&M property — Position not yet established
- Electric Lady Studios — Map source
- Gang Recording Studio (Paris) — Position not yet established
3 places remain listed without a pin.
A band in Conway’s Studio C
Guzauski told SonicScoop that the sessions began with ideas sketched in Pro Tools for musicians to develop. At Conway’s Studio C, the team recorded drums, bass, percussion and keyboards with two rhythm sections. The room offered space and isolation booths that suited simultaneous playing. This is a particular use of a professional studio: musical parts could be shaped by people performing together, while the arrangement remained open to later work. [2]
The orchestra at Capitol
After the rhythm-section work, Guzauski recalled spending two days at Capitol recording the orchestra. That is a different production role from Conway’s basic tracks and later mix. The album-credit transcription also lists Capitol among the recording facilities. The Place here represents the wider Hollywood studio building; the account does not justify selecting an exact orchestral seating position or merging a specific room with the whole facility. [2] [1]
Henson in the Hollywood recording network
The original album credits identify Henson Recording Studio in Hollywood, and Sound On Sound’s contemporary account places engineers Peter Franco and Guzauski there during the making of the album. It belongs to the same recording project as Conway and Capitol, but a shared city does not make those facilities interchangeable. This edition reuses the already documented former A&M/Henson studio property rather than creating a second canonical Place from another period in its naming history. [3] [1]
New York players and Paris sessions
Sound On Sound describes sessions with live musicians, including Nile Rodgers, at Electric Lady in New York. It separately identifies Gang in Paris and engineer Florian Lagatta. Those locations expand the album’s geography beyond Los Angeles. They do not establish that every vocalist or every vocoder part was recorded in one of these rooms. The article also distinguishes Daft Punk’s own Paris studio, which is left unlocated here rather than assigned Gang’s identity. [3]
Two rooms working on the mix
In his Universal Audio interview, Guzauski described mixing at Conway while Daft Punk used another Pro Tools room at the facility. They could add or edit elements, hear his work and return changes to the control room. The process gave each song time to reach a finished state. Conway was therefore both a tracking setting and a place for collaborative revision; the same canonical facility supports those different stages without requiring duplicate studio pins. [4]
Reading the credits as a production map
The retained credit transcription lists Gang, Henson, Electric Lady and Capitol as recording facilities, and Conway as the mixing location. Guzauski’s first-hand account adds Conway’s tracking role. These records complement one another: a credit identifies participation, while an engineer can explain what happened in a room. Neither supplies public access or an exact floor plan. The geographic story follows the work’s production roles, with the finer details left at the precision actually supported. [1] [2]
The story in real places
Capitol Studios
1750 Vine Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles
The orchestra is recorded at Capitol
Album sessions, before the 2013 release
Guzauski’s original interview identifies Capitol Studios as the facility where the Random Access Memories orchestra was recorded over two days. [2]
Henson Recording Studios, former A&M property
1416 North La Brea Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles
Henson contributes to the album’s recording
Album sessions, before the 2013 release
The original Random Access Memories recording credits, retained as a transcription, identify Henson Recording Studio in Hollywood among the album’s recording facilities. [1]
Electric Lady Studios
52 West 8th Street, Greenwich Village
Live musicians record at Electric Lady
Album sessions, before the 2013 release
Sound On Sound’s original Random Access Memories production account identifies sessions with live musicians, including Nile Rodgers, at Electric Lady Studios in New York. [3]
Gang Recording Studio (Paris)
Gang Recording Studio, Paris; facility identity, no precise room or street position asserted
Reading the place today
These are working or historical studio references. Check each operator’s current arrangements before planning a visit; a recording credit supplies no permission to enter a room. The approved Electric Lady exterior photograph illustrates the venue today, not the Daft Punk sessions.
Sources
- Random Access Memories original album credits — transcription — Album Liner Notes. Checked 2026-10-17.
- Mick Guzauski — original engineering and mixing interview — SonicScoop / David Weiss. Checked 2026-10-17.
- Recording Random Access Memories — original engineer interviews — Sound On Sound / Paul Tingen. Checked 2026-10-17.
- Mick Guzauski — Random Access Memories original mixing interview — Universal Audio. Checked 2026-10-17.