Studio Stories

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.

We take a look inside one of the most famous studios in the world.

In 2006, Bill Putnam's famous United Western studio complex on West Sunset Boulevard was re-opened as the EastWest Studios retaining much of it's original acoustic design.

We reveal the unexpected vintage treasures hidden inside an 18th Century palace.

One of the oldest and largest recording studios in the world, Fox's Newman Scoring Stage is still in constant demand for top-class film scores.

We open the doors on some of the world's most interesting professional studios with photographer Hannes Bieger.

In this new regular feature 'Studio File', we open the doors on some of the world's most interesting professional studios with photographer Hannes Bieger. This month's studio is Record Plant in LA.

In this new regular feature 'Studio File', we open the doors on some of the world's most interesting professional studios with photographer Hannes Bieger. This month's studio is Avatar in New York.

This month, we optimise speaker placement, tame some early reflections, and get our hands dirty with a problematic mix.