Last week in Hollywood, RED attended a screening of Sound City, the new documentary directed by Dave Grohl, shot on RED EPICs, and selected for Sundance this year. The film tells the story of the unlikely hero, Sound City Recording Studios, whose history careens from near failure to wild success over 30 years through the voices of the musicians and engineers who recorded at the studios.
The crew shot 1700 hours of footage on EPICs for the documentary which is incredible but also understandable. There are so many great moments captured that the crew must have been constantly shooting. Some of those amazing moments occur when Grohl wraps up the film by bringing the musicians who've told the story into his studio to record on the Neve recording console from Sound City one more time. In doing that, Grohl transforms the documentary from a look at the past to a document of the present and glimpse of the future.