Which studio would you choose for your dream recording sessions? Sound off in the comments below, and don’t forget to stop by Sweetwater for all your studio-gear needs 👉 sweetwater.sjv.io/Studio-Recording
@@dreammix9430 Never been to a real studio, ey? Or the flightdeck of an airliner, even? Airbus had to redesign the center pedestal of the A350 airliner after 2 tea-spilling incidents in 2019. They first suggested a «liquid free zone», but that was deemed impossible.
actually I worked in many many recording studios and that's why was cringing when that coffee cup was held to close to the console. I've actually seen cans of soda spilled onto the console and destroyed five channel strips which had to be removed and cleaned and the faders to be replaced . I know coffee and soda are consumed in rooms all the time but there's definitely a risk
Recorded in a lot of London studios in the seventies and eighties and there would be lots of coffee and or wine around. Never witnessed a spill but, oh, those tape machines lived a charmed life. Cigarette smoke too although the AC probably took care of that.
You missed the most important part of the studio - where "million cups of tea" (as Guy Fletcher might say) are made!! What a delight to get a detailed tour of this great studio.
I couldn't even pay attention to the description of the studio's acoustics and equipment, I just focused on the 2 cups in the hands of the presenters, I wanted to see if they weren't going to have any accidents the whole time! What is this for?
I'm not a gearhead but what 'Knopf' established as a studio is very impressive. As long as it suits excellent music it's fine for me. And then people listen to the recordings on their phone... I have a good installation on the receiving end with B&W speakers. The music deserves this certainly Marks' music!
Great video @Sweetwater, love it - it's such an amazing facility and team. British Grove our one of the Prism Sound using studio powerhouses. Tucked away in the machine room are around 30 x Prism Sound ADA8XR converters that provide the I/O for this amazing studio (they have a few of our interfaces too). We've always loved Mark Knopflers quote on ADA8XR which was simply "We tried them and they were better"... 🔥
just round the corner from where i grew up and went to school. i think it's a superb studio. amazing gear of course, but the design is so incredibly well thought out.
Hey @sweetwater Thank you for posting this. What a fantastic studio. Pretty much the dream studio almost audio text around the world I imagine. One small criticism of this great video though would be… Why did you use same backing track all the way through a 21 minute video? I was so close to stopping the video after about 10 minutes because I couldn’t bear to listen to a money for nothing rip off constantly repeating. You guys must be able to stretch to purchasing a couple more backing tracks surely? Other than that, the insight was wonderful !
This so reminds me of an interview I had for a tea boys job at Trident back in the early seventies. I was 16 and obsessed to get in to the game. I was taken on a tour around the studio and shown all the kit but wasn’t told anything about why it was there or how it worked. I didn’t get that job which, looking these two coffee/tea cup hugging junkies may have been a good thing.
I just got the Chandler TG-2 and have a BAE 1073 both 19" units so having those 2 consoles plus the REDD is so cool to me. I know the level they have taken my recordings to, and the history of them is the coolest
I guess that's the Bosendorfer they used on the 5.1 mix of Shine On You Crazy Diamond when they discovered that the piano that was on the stereo version (before the main guitar solo), was snipped into the 2 track master and NOT on the multitrack tape. If his studio and piano are good enough for Pink Floyd, that's all that needs to be said about how good it is.
Whats up it all those guys in studio's, seems like they're easily dehydrated. Maybe the size of the studio has something to do with it, mine is a lot smaller, dont need my drink everywhere i go.;)
OK< Listenup Sweetwater Video Crew - This video is great, WHY? No time consuming questions. No yuk yuk back and forth head knoding acknowledgements, - Just great replys, immediate information and two well spoken guys. These two guys a Smarty Pants' and I hope are paid rather well. This Studio is Crown Jewel of the Industry - Thanks for not speaking during this Video - We need more STUDIO Tours less the Audio of the Questions . . . .Roll Tape, Lets Gooooooo ! ! ! Oh by the way, I was going to make a pilgramage to Sweetwater until it required multicity flights and you're so far off the normal metropolitan radar, it easier to get to the AMAZOM River to study Global Warming. You could have at least broke ground on your massive expansion years ago where jets land and nice hotels can be found. Noo, you guys are like some Discovery Ch. episode of some off beat Cold War Town full of Weapon ruins and train tranks to nowhere. Well Done
Putting background music on these kind of videos is just……unmusical. Tonedeaf. It really cheapens the experience into a 3rd rate infomercial, terrible.
Why on earth are you both only holding one mug? Why not one in each hand? I walk everywhere with a coffee mug in each hand. Walking from room to room, never putting them down. It also solves the problem of having to choose which hand to hold the mug in. I don't swap the mug from hand to hand because I can't. I give presentations holding mugs. I catch buses holding mugs.
This is the worst video presentation I've seen. Just a couple of dudes saying model numbers for 20 mins. No demonstration of anything - even just a clap in the booths... Play the piano - something!!... what a waste of time
Yes, this was the TG12345 that was used to record the Band On The Run album. I learned that when I got a tour of British Grove Studios a few years ago.
I always thought that record sounded so good. And the drums really complemented the track so perfectly well and when I started working on records and was asked who my favorite drummers were I mentioned the Band on the Run record not knowing who the drummer was. It was Paul McCartney playing drums.
I know what boys with coffee cups look like. You don't have to show me. There's the greatest old equipment and you only give it a cursory glance. What a waste.
What we (Prism Sound) can tell you is British Grove have around 30 x ADA8XR installed as theirconverter of choice... of course we have now given them something to "think about" with the introduction of our Dream ADA-128 😎
If you want to make the real British Grove Studio and feel thrills, go to the Get Lucky behind the scenes British Grove Studios tour, hand in hand with Mark himself and Chuck Ainlay. Enjoy 😉
Mind blowing multi million studio. 😎 Shame the guys couldn’t have been more self confident and ditched the £0.99 coffee cup props/safety blankets 😁 Who am I kidding, they’re probably £400 designer mugs .. 🤔🤣
Absolutely incredible, this is how it should be done. So many modern recordings sound totally flat and lifeless… don’t think there’s any danger of that happening here!
Beautiful studios like this are slowly meeting there fate as artists use other forms of recording. Just look at what is happening to an iconic studio like Sunset Sound in LA. Local governments are not enforcing the law with crime and homelessnes. Such a sad end for the magic that happens in a recording studio.
