Through the history of audio engineering and recording studios, the standard procedure when having a good budget, has loading the studio with the top quality, high-end, cutting-edge newest equipment for being able the extract the best sound possible when recording artists and sessions.
In the last 20/30 years, people started looking towards the older pieces of hardware when it came to audio, for their characteristic sound, although not being new, the quality was till there and the sound remained pristine when it came to certain pieces of equipment, and the old hardware started being sought for, thus the term “vintage” came around.
The high-quality not only in equipment but also in performance is still there, but “newest” equipment is not the case when it comes to Sugar Ray’s Recording Studio, located in Essex.
Dean Amos is the Owner of Sugar Rays Vintage Recording Studio. Dean apart from running and building the studio, also engineers sessions for bands. Dean has been playing upright bass, bass guitar and rhythm guitar for well over 30 years in many roots music bands, and over that time recorded over 20 albums with different bands, experimenting in recording and being very interested in the recording history side of things with a great understanding in how the music should sound.
However, such a task was soon to be realized a huge undertaking which spanned some 6-year period with many ups & downs along the way, mainly sourcing equipment and shipping it from the USA with endless air-miles and finding parts for the equipment of some 60-70 years of age. Also most importantly getting the right Techs to repair and setup everything to work together and work as it should do.
Dean says that there is no equipment in the studio that doesn’t work, all the vintage gear included in the studio is there to be used, everything from microphones, speakers, sound boards, tape machines and more, all of those are authentic gear from the 1950’s.
You can get a full glance of this hardware and an overview of the studio in this video made by Sound-on-Sound Magazine:
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