While he worked with Lee Rogers at Platinum Sound Productions and helped to established several recording labels including Soul N Rock, Platinum Sound and Coleman Kestin and Smith Records, also known as CKS Records. Smith had his very own personal recording studio in Hollywood with an Ampex four track that was simply known as KSR. Smith expanded his little recording studio to a 2 inch -16 track recording facility, that he sold and moved his combined operation into the D-Town/Platinum Sound Recording Studios in North Hollywood.
In the community of recording giants. Smith's next door neighbors included then Ray Parker, Jr., George Tobin's studio where he records Tiffany. Other studios around the area was MCA Whitney, Warner Bros., any many others.
Smith also was establishing his presents in Seattle, Washington at this time.
In time, the large recording studios would become a thing of the past, with these old machines, with dials, knobs and lots of hiss and "ghost sounds" in the mix were beginning to become obsolete. Smith decided to close up shop and move to Colorado. Later he reopened a small studio in the barn of his ranch in Elizabeth as a digital facility. By the middle of 2002, Smith had completely closed all of his studios in both Seattle and Hollywood.
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