VoyageLA Profiles Dean Earls and the Story Behind Playback LA
VoyageLA features Dean Earls in an interview covering his career, artist development work and the creation of Playback Los Angeles.
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Playback LA owner Dean Earls has been featured by VoyageLA in an extensive interview covering his career, artist development work and the creation of Playback Los Angeles.
The interview traces Earls' journey from studying audio engineering in Ireland and arriving in Los Angeles in 2006 through studio engineering, artist management, A&R and ultimately the creation of Playback LA.
The feature also provides one of the clearest contemporary accounts of how the Los Angeles studio came together.
Earls discusses meeting Daniel "OT" Marquez, discovering Austin Sexton, presenting Sexton to Atlantic Records and eventually meeting Tucker Bodine after the former Playback operation had closed.
He also discusses the extensive search for a Los Angeles location and the renovation of the eventual building into a two-studio recording facility.