De Lane Lea Studios is a recording studio

Recording studio

A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician to achieve optimum acoustic properties...

, currently based in Dean Street

Dean Street

Dean Street is a street in Soho, London, England, running between Oxford Street to the north and Shaftesbury Avenue to the south.-Historical figures:The street has a rich history. In 1764 a young Mozart gave a recital at 21 Dean Street...

, Soho

Soho

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, London, England, UK. Although the studios have mainly been used for dubbing

Dubbing (filmmaking)

Dubbing is the post-production process of recording and replacing voices on a motion picture or television soundtrack subsequent to the original shooting. The term most commonly refers to the substitution of the voices of the actors shown on the screen by those of different performers, who may be...

 feature films and television programmes, major artists such as The Beatles

The Beatles

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, The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones

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, The Who

The Who

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, The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

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, Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd

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, Electric Light Orchestra

Electric Light Orchestra

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 and Deep Purple

Deep Purple

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 have recorded songs in their studios, particularly at their former premises at 129 Kingsway

Kingsway (London)

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  and at Engineers Way, Wembley, where Queen

Queen (band)

Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...

 recorded demos in 1971.

Major Jacques De Lane Lea, a French intelligence attaché

Attaché

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 for the British Government, founded De Lane Lea Studios in 1947 to dub English films into French. The studios were adapted according to the demands of the market and expanded significantly on various sites in the 1960s and ’70s. Music recording increased dramatically and the growth of commercial radio and TV also led to new work in advertising.

De Lane Lea now specialises in Sound post-production

Post-production

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 for cinema and television. It includes 6 individual studios, including Studio 1, the biggest in-town dubbing theatre with one of Europe's most powerful AMS Neve

AMS Neve

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 DFC mixing consoles, built on what was previously a TV studio and before that an orchestral recording studio. Recently the studios have been used for films by directors such as Nick Park

Nick Park

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, Tim Burton

Tim Burton

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, Mike Newell

Mike Newell (director)

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, Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro

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 and Chris Weitz

Chris Weitz

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