These 1st two pics here, show Jerry Soto, himself.
Pics of What soto's studio looked like. FAZ CAZ recorded , "No Life" in this same spot!
This is the same drum room, where Rodrigo layed down the drums to "No Life" Soto's drums sounded fucking beautiful! It sounded like butta, and it was like playing on butter, and it was literally the best experience I've had with playing drums in a studio in my life. Soto had a house set, that Rodrigo recorded on. The set in this pic, is this dude in that metal band's drumset, he brought in the studio.
Here is the same area, where Rodrigo layed down some guitar to "No Life"
Here is the same vocal booth where Jimmy Lo layed down some vocals to , "No Life" and prolly some other songs he's done in his career also, that are unreleased, and on different projects he's been in since like 95' at least.
This is not FAZ CAZ, but since we didn't have our own pics with Jerry Soto, we found these on the net, so you can compare what it must of been like to record there.
Chasm was the metal band that recorded with Jerry Soto, and they tell this story about him here, which I thought described Soto, how I knew him too!
http://www.earache.com/news_stories/chasm.html
"Exclusive report from the studio The Chasm have just entered Soto Sound Studios in Illinois to record their brand new album, the first for Wicked World. Despite all the hectic comings and goings associated with the early stages of a recording, frontman Daniel Corchado found time to send us this quick update: "So it has begun! Last monday 19th we arrived at Soto Sound around 4pm, only The Chasm Core plus our videographer/photographer/brother Carlos from Ancient Gods, so we started to download and set up everything,and first thing we noticed once we got inside the studio is that Jerry did a new isolation room especially for drums, after the first takes we realized that it was a crucial part in this recording. We started recording around 6.30 after having a short EQ session for drums, we didn't wanted to waste a lot of time on this, we knew that a natural, warm, live sound was the goal, so Antonio started playing some stuff and Jerry started to balance everything on-the-go, since we are trying to avoid triggers as much as possible (we are only using them on kick drums). We requested a microphone for each an every piece of the drumset, after a few more minutes it became very clear that Jerry Soto is master of his domain,and a very professional engineer, this came as a great relief, since it is gonna make things much easier for us! We warmed up doing one of the 2 covers we are doing for this session,to make sure everything was there, powerful and cutting, specially snare and toms, Antonio got a new deeper wood snare and a new set of pedals specially for this recording, so there was some concern regarding the use of these new items.... After we finished the covers we all went to the mix room to check it out, the result? Simply fuckin' brilliant, even if it's too early to confirm a total victory on this matter,I gotta say we haven't heard Antonio like this in a long time, the drums are sounding very big and natural, most importantly, and they sound personal due to his style, and sound somehow different to what it's been doing in the past...half the record has been done, drum-wise speaking, and the rest should be finished today. Now for the guitars, we are also aiming to get a more traditional, not-so-digital sound, a classic tube amp warm sound captured through a single vaccum tube microphone should do the trick, but we'll have to wait and see, Julio will start laying down his parts tonight, but overall we know that this process has been much less stressful than in past times, even though the execution/playing of the songs is the hardest we have ever done, the atmosphere of the studio and the positive/ professional/ laid back persona of Mr. Jerry Soto has and will be a very important matter." -Chasm