Legendary Producer’s Immersive Audio Studio: Equally famed for producing the classic Fleetwood Mac albums Tusk, Live, Mirage, the GRAMMY-winning Rumours, and the first four releases by his hit making singer-songwriter daughter Colbie, Ken Caillat found the perfect way to describe the experience of listening to the four iconic Joni Mitchell collections (including Court and Spark and The Hissing of Summer Lawns) remixed in the custom Immersive Audio studio (9.1.6) at his Marshmellow Skies Studios in Westlake Village: “It turns the whole room into Joni Mitchell.” Warner Music also commissioned Caillat and his team to remix her album Joni Mitchell at Newport Live, which won the GRAMMY for Best Folk Album in 2024. Caillat partnered with veteran engineer Claus Trelby (whose credits in addition to Mitchell include Dishwalla, Sting, and Eric Clapton) to create the new studio, which was designed by George Augspurger.
Caillat’s History of Innovation: The Immersive Audio aspect of Marshmellow Skies is something of a grand sequel to Caillat’s founding and serving as president of 5.1 Entertainment Group Digital Production Services, which in the late ‘90s and early 2000s created 5.1 DVD Audio conversions, remastering in that format albums for Billy Idol, Frank Sinatra, Pat Benatar, Wilson Phillips, The Beach Boys, Herbie Hancock, David Becker Tribune, Alice Cooper, and, of course, Fleetwood Mac. Caillat previously was co-founder and president of Highway One Media Entertainment, creating the then-popular CD-ROMs for the interactive computer media market. On the music side, he worked early in his career as a demo engineer for Albert Hammond, Marc Bolan, and Phoebe Snow and led a group of investors to purchase the Sausalito Record Plant in 2019, where Rumours was recorded. It is currently being renovated, and Caillat hopes to reopen it as a full-service recording facility and museum.
The Marshmellow Skies Experience: The Immersive Audio studio is equipped with state-of-the-art KRK studio monitors and supports Dolby Atmos, DTS:X Pro, and Sony 360, as well as all traditional audio formats. Caillat says, “We love to take classic albums recorded on a 16-track tape machine and re-envision them with 9.1.6 technology that has 13 speakers surrounding you that challenge the concept of stereo mixes and remix them into something else entirely.”
ArtistMax: Another feature of Marshmellow Skies is ArtistMax, a full-service coaching/mentorship program, partially inspired by the assistance Colbie Caillat had early in her career, dedicated to helping artists succeed in the industry.
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