Wool Hall Studios
Now closed - Archive feature
| Tucked
away in the Somerset countryside some ten miles south of Bath, The
Wool Hall is a residential studio with a distinguished past. The
historic building was originally converted into a recording studio
in the 80’s by Tears For Fears, initially for private use. Later
the studio became fully commercial installing an SSL 6056 analogue
console and playing host to a number of leading artist including
Joni Mitchell, The Pretenders, the Smiths, 808 State, Stereophonics,
Paul Weller & Ash.
In 1994 The Wool Hall
was acquired by Van Morrison who, having already recorded five
albums at the studio was one of it’s most regular clients. For the
past five years the studio has been in constant use for in-house
projects but this year they are proudly re-opening as one of the
countries leading residentials.
In
the summer of last year the studio was upgraded with the
installation of a brand new SSL
MT+ 96 channel digital console. David Conroy, Technical Manager
at The Wool Hall explains, “We had decided to upgrade the control
room and as long term SSL users, we decided to check out their
current range of consoles. Our primary needs were for a console that
could be configured to our way of working, changing quickly from
recording to mix setups. As we now use hard disk recording as our
main multitrack medium, we decided a digital console was the way
forward.”
“The
MT+ has the look and feel of an analogue desk and is familiar to
recording engineers who would otherwise be faced with learning a new
operating system and mode of working. The desk layout has all the
ergonomic styling one expects of SSL and with the usual support from
technical department, the transition has been smooth as could be
expected. With the installation of the MT plus I feel that The Wool
Hall is fully prepared for new developments within the recording
industry for the foreseeable future”.
tel: +44 (0)1373 830731
email: tristan@thewoolhall.co.uk
web: http://www.thewoolhall.co.uk
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Pictured below, you can see the
removal of the long serving SSL 6000 series console being expertly
handled by Pulleyn's.
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