Advision Studios
| Advision Studios | |
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| Location | 23 Gosfield Street, W1W 6HG[1], Central London, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°31′11″N 0°8′31″W / 51.51972°N 0.14194°W |
Advision Studios was a recording studio in Fitzrovia, central London, England.[2]
Origins
Founded in 1954[3] by Guy Whetstone and Stephen Appleby,[1] Advision originally provided voiceovers and jingles for television advertisements. The studio was initially located at 83 New Bond Street, but moved to 23 Gosfield Street in 1969.[1][4] The studio complex was built to be able to house a 60-piece studio orchestra and had a 35mm film projector screen for synchronising with motion picture images.[2] Producer Martin Rushent began his career as a projectionist at Advision.[5]
History
By the mid-1960s, Advision had become one of the top London studios for rock and pop music. The Yardbirds recorded their 1966 album Roger the Engineer at Advision on a four-track machine. The Move recorded some of their early hits at Advision, engineered by Gerald Chevin, including "Flowers in the Rain" in July 1967.[6] In early 1968, Advision became one of the first studios in the United Kingdom to obtain a professional quality eight-track machine, a Scully model 280 imported from the United States. Among the early artists to use the eight-track machine were T. Rex, the Who and Caravan. In 1970, the studio had a custom 24-channel desk, still recording to eight-track tape.[1][2] Advision was also among the first studios in the UK to install 16 and 24-track machines in the early 1970s.[7]
In 1971, a 20-channel Neve console was added to the mixdown suite.[1] During the 1970s the studios' focus moved towards progressive rock music, and the company began producing music for bands such as Yes, Gentle Giant, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Premiata Forneria Marconi, as well as Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.[2]
A 1974 re-fitting gave the studio a console built in California by Quad-Eight Electronics for quadraphonic mixing, and the UK's first computer-aided mixdown desk.[2][8] Producers and engineers who worked at Advision include Eddy Offord,[9] Eddie Kramer,[10] Martin Rushent,[5] Paul Northfield[11] and Hugh Padgham.[12]
In 1990, the studio moved out of London. The new location opened in October in a converted church in Brighton, while the company simultaneously operated a mobile recording truck.[3] The Gosfield Street location has been occupied since 1993 by a studio called The Sound Company.
Partial discography
The following is a partial list of work either recorded, mixed or mastered at Advision Studios between 1966 and 1986, taken from .
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Burns, Phil (2011). "Advision Studios". Classic UK Recording Studios in the 60s & 70s. Archived from the original on 16 October 2011. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Brain Salad Surgery (2006). "Advision Studios". Retrieved 9 October 2011.
- 1 2 Savicky, Randolph P.. "Advision: The U.K's Top Mobile Recording Facility" (PDF). db Magazine. 25 (5): 10, 11.
- ↑ Discogs – Advision Studios – (profile and discography)
- 1 2 The Telegraph (7 June 2011). "Martin Rushent". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
- ↑ "Move Remaster Series – Move – Tracklisting". Ftmusic.com. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ "Veale Associates – Professional Sound Studio Design". Vealea.com. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ Robertshaw, Nick (1979). "Stiff Competition Marks U.K. Scene". Billboard. Vol. 91, no. 22. p. ES-3. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
- ↑ Welch, Chris (1999). Close to the Edge – The Story of Yes. London: Music Sales Group. p. 123. ISBN 0-85712-042-5.
- ↑ Owsinski, Bobby (2004). The Recording Engineer's Handbook. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard. p. 321. ISBN 1-932929-00-2.
- ↑ "Paul Northfield (Producer) 2013 Interview on the Signals of Intuition". The Signals of Intuition. 99.1 CJAM-FM. 2013-08-27. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
- ↑ Verna, Paul (1997). "HP Off the Record". Billboard. p. HP-13. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 9 October 2011.