Recording Studio
A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician to achieve optimum acoustic properties.
Recording studios may be used by recording musicians, voice over artists for advertisements or dialogue replacement in film, television or animation, foley, or to record their accompanying musical soundtracks.
The typical recording studio consists of a room called the studio or live room, where instrumentalists and vocalists perform and the control room, which houses the professional audio equipment for either analogue or digital recording, routing and manipulating the sound.
Often, there will be smaller rooms called isolation booths present to accommodate loud instruments such as drums or electric guitar, to keep these sounds from being audible to the microphones that are capturing the sounds from other instruments, or to provide drier rooms for recording vocals or quieter acoustic instruments.
In 1957, RCA Victor became the first major record label to open a Nashville studio, the famed “Studio B,” also located on Music Row. RCA’s Chet Atkins and other producers used this studio to record hits such as Bobby Bare’s Detroit City, Jim Reeves’ He’ll Have to Go, Elvis Presley’s It’s Now or Never and Roy Orbison’s Only the Lonely.
Mixing Board
In 1955, Owen Bradley and his brother Harold opened the first recording studio on what is now known as Nashville’s Music Row. There, Bradley used this mixing board to record hits that boosted Nashville’s reputation as Music City, including Marty Robbins’ Don’t Worry, Brenda Lee’s I’m Sorry and Patsy Cline’s I Fall to Pieces.
Source: Wikipedia, 2011. Roots of Country Music, 2011.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------Recording Studios, Partial Listing
- Bradley's Barn, Mt Juliet, TN
- Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville
- Brown Radio Production, Nashville, TN
- Buck Owens Studio, Bakersfield, California
- Capitol Records Studios, Hollywood, CA
- Capitol Tower Studios, Hollywood, CA
- Castle Studio Tulane Hotel, Nashville, TN
- Columbia Studio, Nashville, TN
- Columbia Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA
- E.T. Herzog Recording Studio, Cincinnati
- Fred Foster Studio, Nashville, Tennessee
- Gold Star Studio, Houston, Texas
- HR Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA
- KWKH Studio, Shreveport, Louisiana
- Jack Clement Recording Studio, Nashville
- Jack Starnes Studio, Beaumont, Texas
- Jim Beck Studio, Dallas, Texas
- Music City Recording, Nashville, TN
- Nashville West Studio, Hollywood , CA
- Norman Petty Studio, Clovis, New Mexico
- Paramount Scoring Stage, Hollywood, CA
- Pete's Place, Nashville, Tennessee
- Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California
- Radio Station KWTO, Springfield, MO
- Ray Stevens Studio, Nashville, TN
- RCA Methodist TV Radio Film Commission
- Rainbow Ranch, Madison, TN
- RCA Victor Studio, Chicago, IL
- RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, TN
- RCA Victor Studio, NY City, NY
- Sound Emporium Studio, Nashville, TN
- Soundshop Studio, Nashville, Tennessee
- Sun Studio, Memphis, Tennessee
- Starday Sound Studio, Nashville, TN
- Synco Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee
- Thomas Productions, Nashville, TN
- United Recording, Hollywood, California
- WFAA Studio, Dallas, Texas
- WSM Radio Station Studio, Nashville, TN
- 20th Century Fox Stage 1, Hollywood, CA
---------------------------------------------------------------------------Researched and compiled by Richard Bell, Roots of Country Music, Dec. 24, 2011.
