Pathway Studios
| Pathway Studios | |
|---|---|
| Location: | STREET ADDRESS/UK |
| Years in operation: | XXXX - XXXX |
Pathway Studios was a small 8-track recording studio in the north of London.
On 1977-02-12 The Police went to Pathway Studios to record their very first songs Fall Out and Nothing Achieving.
Other artists who recorded there were Last Exit, The Damned, Elvis Costello and other Stiff artists.
History
In 2005 guitarist Tim Crowther remembers this about Pathway Studios (see links):
"The studio closed a few years ago. I am a guitarist and I recorded three albums there in the early 1990s, one with my power trio Groon, the others with Geoff Serle and King Crimson violinist David Cross. The studio was owned by Mike Finesilver and the engineers we used were Justin Underhill and Jim Coustance. It was a very low key place, a bit cold and damp with a unique sweet musty smell that clung to your clothes and equipment for days afterwards. The studio was very small, about 8 x 8 metres with a 2 x 2m control booth in the corner and an upright piano next to it. You could just squeeze three people into the control booth! The tape deck was a Brennell 1 inch 8 track. The monitors and desk were custom made, and they had a pair of Auratones as well, fed from Quad power amps. The desk was quite small, pushed hard against the front wall with the custom monitors hung above and the Auratones on the meter bridge. Outboard was very basic: a Bel delay line, an Alesis digital reverb and Drawmer gates, but they had a nice plate reverb in a cupboard in the office upstairs. I can't recall all the mics but they were the industry standard stuff. We got big warm sounding mixes and despite the cramped conditions the mixing process seemed effortless compared to the difficult digital learning curve I have been on in the last two years."
Bazza built the small desk for Mike Finesilver and Peter Ker back in 1974 or 1975. There wasn't much space in the contol room. The desk was 16-input with transformer coupled mic amps designed by David Robinson and descibed in his series in Studio Sound Magazine. EQ was originally from the same source and was based on an LCR network and used dicrete transistors. These were later replaced by a more controllable IC based design.
Recording history
The following Police and related albums or songs were recorded at this studio:
| Album (or song) title | Artist or band | Producer | Release year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall Out/Nothing Achieving | The Police | Stewart Copeland and Bazza | 1977 |
| Dead End Job/Visions Of The Night | The Police | John Cale | 1979 (Visions re-mix) |
See also
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External links
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/high-end/50569-pathway-studios-london.html
References
sources: internet, books
