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Electro-Vox Recording Studios

recording studio in Hollywood, Los Angeles

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ99842920 ↗
Source-derived summary

Electro-Vox Recording Studios (or simply Vox) is a recording studio formerly in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States. It was historically located on Melrose Avenue across from the Paramount Pictures gate. In 2009 it was purchased by American musician Woody Jackson.

In a 2021 interview with GQ, musician Adam Granduciel of The War on Drugs, which recorded at Electro-Vox in 2019, said that the studio had since closed down. According to Jackson's website, his studio is now located in Tucson, Arizona.

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“Electro-Vox Recording Studios” enters the record as recording studio in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Electro-Vox, Recording and Studios can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2021, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1931. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Electro-Vox, Recording and Studios.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q99842920. Authority coordinates are 34.083, -118.321. None of the 3 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2021 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Electro-Vox Recording Studios” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.