Studio Stories

Though its design consciously looks back to the '60s, State Of The Ark has only been open to the public as a commercial studio for seven years.

Hollywood remains arguably the recording capital of the world, housing as it does a staggering number of world-class facilities.

For many decades, London's North West has been home to more than its share of important recording studios.

If recording studios were viewed the same way as wine, 1958 would be seen as an exceptional vintage.

Few countries in the world can boast a musical heritage as rich as that of Cuba.

Reborn out of the Cold War East German TV and radio network site, Funkhaus Studios can be found deep inside Block B!

Our story begins with one of the most famous names in the history of recorded music: Bill Putnam.

The Magic Shop is not the oldest studio in New York, yet it is one of the few major recording venues left in Manhattan. Over...

Spread across two locations, the LA-based recording empire named Westlake Studios has played an important role in the making of some of the best-selling albums in the history of recorded music.

These days, many top studios cater to a major-label clientele, and offer a rather streamlined approach. Happily, there is...

The most lavish recording facility ever built is not in London, New York or LA, but a remote part of South Africa. We trace the extraordinary story of BOP Studios.

Mark Knopfler's British Grove studio complex is one of very few large studios in the world to have been constructed in recent years.

Candy Bomber opened its doors in 2007, shortly before the last aeroplane departed from Berlin's historic — and now closed — Tempelhof airport.

This month we look inside Hollywood's Ocean Way Studios, the "Abbey Road of the West Coast".

We take a look inside one of the world's top studios.

We step inside one of the longest established residential studios in the UK.

We visit this penthouse studio overlooking Time Square, New York.

We take a look inside one of the world's top studios.

We take a look at the renamed Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) studio.

Unique, unnavigable and steeped in history, the BBC’s extraordinary Maida Vale studio complex exemplifies everything we love about our national broadcaster!

Inside the recording studio where the likes of David Bowie, Lou Reed and Steely Dan made their albums.