BOP Studios: The Most Amazing Recording Studio You Have Probably Never Heard Of... 

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I used to live there in those years, thought I knew everyone in mafikeng.

I'm from mafikeng too. I was 12 at the time you describe.

Tru fam

i. Am Hymn right?!? I can’t believe it’s just sitting empty. It actually breaks my heart to see such beautiful facilities not being used. Top choice gear, room build outs, the whole 9. Wow

@@waterwoodguitars6871 Exactly! I'd NEVER leave if I had this! 💯 Hymn

Me too

: o

Great, the only place where if a zombie sneaks in, nobody would hear you scream, Ironically.

or I slay them all with my razor sharp riffs!

Can't be long now...

Phlop Alopagus lol

you know what, not a bad choice. I used to live in that area and visited many times. those isolation doors are heavier and bank vaults. no zombie can hear you in there.

What are your problems? Are you using a clock if you're using many digital boxes?

+BMR Studio I live in Johannesburg. There is a lot of hearsay about this studio. As far as I understand, the South African government commissioned for this to be built at the turn of the apartheid regime. The intention was for the national broadcaster to be situated here and for this to be a media hub that could rival other major cities of the world. Unfortunately, there was no foresight, nobody was really trained to maintain this studio, and thus these components have been neglected over the last 25 odd years. Also, as the years passed, the national broadcaster SABC set up shop in Johannesburg in Aukland Park. Way more central than Mafikeng. I know a few seasoned local engineers who claim that nothing here works [due to neglect] and my band requested to do some work there but were denied for unknown reasons. My impressions is that the SA government just wanted to prove that they were on par with the rest of the world but didn't do their homework and thus it all fell to shit. Money man... people spend it badly here.

What a big mistake.... :(((( and stupidity... Maybe we need to do some social fund base and move the studio into Europe or US. no?

BMR Studio I heard that some British guy bought the place for about $700K [a frieken steal]. There was some noise about it. But nothing came of it. He was not really an audiophile but more of a businessman I guess. The lead engineer that was there for years holding the thing together also left recently. So I'm not really sure any of it is salvageable. That guy was really dedicated to the place by the sounds of it. Eventually even he had to let go. I'm not sure if any of the gear works really? Someone with the right kind of understanding would need to come through to salvage the artifacts there, and I'm not so sure anyone would make the mission really. It all looks very pretty though. Perhaps thats why they cant bring themselves to dismantling the place. A move would also be mad costly.

BMR Studio If there is anyone out there in internet land reading this who has the money and influence to salvage these artefacts they should make the mission. A serious legacy was abandoned here. Much like the South African Legacy... a forgotten one.

What a loose..... IS safe to travel there and take a visit?

LMFAO

+McAuthor Jaxsn the government. so taxes...and stuff.

I have - I've been there (twice) - and while they too are state of the art, these here take the cake, no contest.

not feasible? it's there :)

No

The quality of both rooms and recording equipment can never be substituted with Protools and crappy plugins. It doesn't get any better than this. The tragedy happens when it all gets converted to mp3 in the end.

Not yet. But it will be in the future.

MrSadler515 hahaha

Usa for Africa was actually due to a famine that was happening in Ethiopia, South Africa is a very different country within the same continent.

Oh, they come in my bedroom alright.

You ignorance is surpassed only by your lack of knowledge

+Jahn Beukes dude... so sad.

Don't blame the SABC. They took over in 1997 but only leased from the PIC, who were the real owners. Then they basically got kicked out by the PIC because they had a falling out. This facility was built by Lucas Mangope using pension funds, which were all lost. If you want to blame someone, blame him.