Sure , singers sing and guitarists strum , but you owe just as much to the engineers behind the music as you do the musician themselves . They may not get much time in the Grammy public eye , but in laurels of the mixers and shakers who make music worth listening to , here are 11 larger-than-life past and present sounding board , mixing console , and more .
UM Project’s WSW-Inspired Console
Above is the theUM Projectdesigned and manufactured this amazing intercrossed analog - digital mixture console table for The Motherbrain , Brian Bender ’s Brooklyn - based recording studio . The similarly Brooklyn - based design company created this beauty from a very rare tardy sixties WSW ( Wiener Schwachstromwerke ) analogue transcription cabinet and a modern - daytime Tonelux modular short letter mixer . The last third , in the middle , is used for the digital integration with Pro Tools and admit a touch tender digital controller , as well as an Apple display .
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Kraftwerk’s Kling Klang Studio
This private music studio was originally founded in 1970 in Düsseldorf . Because Kraftwerk had a insurance of not selling or throw away old gear , Kling Klang ( and its cellar ) is full of obscure analog and digital melodic hardware .
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Basing Street Studios
The studio apartment was set up by Chris Blackwell of the world - far-famed Island Records inside a deconsecrated church building . A highly impressive lean of creative person recorded their stuff here : Iron Maiden , Bob Marley , Robert Palmer , King Crimson , Brian Eno , The Clash , Pet Shop Boys , Depeche Mode , The Eagles , Dire Straits , East 17 , Boyzone , Emerson , Lake & Palmer , The Rolling Stones , Genesis , Queen etc . In 1970 , two far-famed record album were recorded here at the same time : the Led Zeppelin IV and Jethro Tull ’s Aqualung .
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Maida Vale, BBC
Maida Vale Studios is a composite of seven BBC studio on Delaware Road , Maida Vale , London . It has been used to record thousands of classical medicine , pop euphony and drama sessions for BBC Radio 1 , BBC Radio 2 , BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 from 1946 to the present . In the photo : British composerMalcolm Clarke(music composer for several Doctor Who serials ) and sound applied scientist Brian Hodgson at workplace in 1969 .
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Polar Music Studio
Swedish pop grouping Abba and their managing director Stikkan Andersson at the group ’s newly complete , custom - work up transcription studio in a former movie theater , Stockholm , 23rd May 1978 . Polar Studios is one of the most famous recording studio apartment in the humans ; Led Zeppelin , the Ramones , Rammstein , Genesis , Backstreet Boys , Beastie Boys , Belinda Carlisle , Celine Dion , Roxette , Entombed , The Hellacopters have work here .
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Les Paul’s API
This 28 x 16 recording mixing console — with an gauge auction note value between $ 40,000 – $ 60,000 — was for saleat Julien ’s Auctionsas part of the Les Paul estate auction event on May 29 , 2012 in Los Angeles , California . This 50 - year - old American mixing cabinet made by Automated Processes Inc. of Farmingdale New York was sold for $ 106,250 .
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BBC, London
This is the mixing desk at the BBC Studios in London , where the five-hundredth edition of ‘ Top of the Pops ’ was impart from in 1973 . The weekly receiving set program was farm here , the follow superstar performers gathered together for this completely resilient functioning : The Beatles , Dusty Springfield , The Animals , the Rolling Stones , and many , many more .
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Royal College of Music
English composer Tristram Cary ( 1925 – 2008 , proper ) with two of his students in the electronic music studio of the Royal College of Music , London , 4th November 1968 . A pioneer of electronic music , Cary make the studio in 1967 .
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Sigma Sound Studios
Joe Tarsia , a now - retired sound engineer , stands by the Solid State Logic mix instrument panel in Philadelphia ’s Sigma Sound Studios on Sept. 16 , 2003 . Sigma Sound , the reference of the echoing , orchestral “ Sound of Philadelphia ” that topped the R&B charts in the 1970s interchange hand in 2003 after 35 years under founder and engineer Tarsia .
Photo : Mark Stehle / AP
Play Studios
Benge , the London based experimental musician and electronic music manufacturer runs this music studio apartment in London which house a large collection of vintage electronic synthesisers and other recording equipment .
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EMI TG12345 Mark IV
Thislegendarymixing console table was one of the two master sounding board at the Abbey Road Studios , London between 1971 and 1984 , and was sell byVintage King Audiotwo years ago .
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