STUDIO B: Everything in Lou Reed’s second-floor studio—a collaboration between Reed, Zivic, and studio designer Marty Strauss—slides on rollers. Various components are set on shelves that are tilted at angles to facilitate easy access to the machinery. “We were in here measuring his arms and legs for days,” Zivic remembers. Reed—whose latest CD is Animal Serenade—was patient and fastidious, desperate to have it perfect. “It was, how can he reach his keyboards and his guitar and still read the display and still deal with the phone if it rings?” Zivic says.