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The Warehouse Studio is a music recording facility

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...

in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, owned by Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams, is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. Adams has won dozens of awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations. He has also received 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written...

The building

The Warehouse Studio is housed in the oldest brick building in Vancouver, which is located in present-day Gastown

Gastown

Gastown is a national historic site in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the northeast end of Downtown adjacent to the Downtown Eastside. Its historical boundaries were the waterfront , Columbia Street, Hastings Street, and Cambie Street, which were the borders of the 1870 townsite survey, the proper...

. Originally built by the Oppenheimer Brothers

David Oppenheimer

David Oppenheimer was a successful entrepreneur, the second mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, and a National Historic Person of Canada.-Early life:...

in either June 1886 or July 1887 as Vancouver's first wholesale grocery business, it also served as Vancouver's first City Hall

Vancouver City Hall

Vancouver City Hall is home to Vancouver City Council in Vancouver, British Columbia. Located at 453 West 12th Avenue, the building was ordered by the Vancouver Civic Building Committee, designed by architect Fred Townley and Matheson, and built by Carter, Halls, Aldinger and Company...

. For most of its 115+ year history, the building held a glass factory and storage warehouse for Pilkington Glass Company

Pilkington

Pilkington Group Limited is a multinational glass manufacturing company headquartered in St Helens, United Kingdom. It is a subsidiary of the Japan-based NSG Group...

.

The old Warehouse Studio was in the basement of Bryan Adams' former West Vancouver house, located on the 3330 block of Mathers Avenue, and held an SSL 4072 G+ (now in Studio 1). While he was on tour, Bryan would allow other bands to record there, but because of the intrusion on privacy and noise, he had plans to create a studio complex in the heart of Vancouver. In 1991, he bought the abandoned, burnt-out brick building. Despite heavy taxes by the city and the cost of making it earthquake safe, Bryan restored it. The building was sheared in two, and one-half of it was gutted into an open air courtyard with a parking lot and small putting green. The other half is the three-story studio, which he made sure kept a lot of its old character and charm.

In 1998, Bryan received a City of Vancouver Heritage Award for his effort.

The studios

The acoustic and technical considerations of The Warehouse Studio while it was being built, and up until 2003, were handled by Ron "Obvious" Vermeulen

Ron Obvious

Ron Obvious is a Vancouver punk-rock producer, engineer and studio designer.After completing an electronics degree in Toronto, He started working in the recording industry, September 1976 at Little Mountain Sound Studios in Vancouver. Working as a technical assistant to John Vrtacic, also working...

. He headed a team of musicians and technicians in designing the studio. After Ron retired, John Vrtacic took over as Technical Director until his death on August 19, 2009.

Studio 1 - SSL 4072 G+

Opened on October 18, 1999, it is the third studio to be in operation. Found on the first floor, it is the most popular mixing studio. It has a large iso booth attached, and a small lounge and kitchen.

The control room has a 72-channel Solid State Logic

Solid State Logic

Solid State Logic is a manufacturer of high-end mixing consoles and recording studio hardware headquartered in Begbroke, Oxfordshire, UK.- Company information :...

SL 4000 G Series Master Studio System console, with Total Recall and Black E Series EQ installed.

Studio 2 - Neve A6630

Opened on February 9, 1998, it is the second studio to be in operation. Located on the second floor, it is the main tracking room. The dimensions of the live room are 32 ft by 58 ft with a 24-ft ceiling, with three isolation booths. There is also a lounge area, a long table for dining, full kitchen services, and a small patio for smoking.

Neve A6630 console

The Neve A6630 installed in Studio 2 is one of the three legendary custom-ordered consoles built for Sir George Martin. Built in 1979, it was installed in AIR Studios London on Oxford Street. It later found a home in Atlantic Studios

Atlantic Studios

Atlantic Studios was the recording studio of Atlantic Records. It was located at 1841 Broadway , in New York City. According to the address written in the original liner notes of Charles Mingus' The Clown, it was initially located at 157 W 57th Street. The American record label first recorded in...

in New York, until Bryan bought it in 1991. Ron Obvious

Ron Obvious

rebuilt and modded the console, and it was installed into Studio 2.

It is a split console, with 58 channels, 24 busses, and a 32 channel tape monitor panel (58x24x32). The mic pres are remote, meaning the actual pres (34427 modules) are housed in rolling carts on the live room floor. The mic trim pot on the console sends a control voltage to the pre. The main 52 channels have 31106 EQ modules.

Some mods that have been done to the console include:

GML Automation faders (installed in February 2001).
6 custom "Sleve" strips: an SSL mic pre and EQ circuitry housed in a Neve channel strip.
In-line monitor panel.

Studio 3 - SSL 9080 J

Opening on July 9, 1997, it is the first studio to be in operation. It is a 5.1 mixing studio (no live room is attached), located on the third floor. It has a large lounge area with full kitchen services, and a small patio for smoking and the barbecue

Barbecue

Barbecue or barbeque , used chiefly in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia is a method and apparatus for cooking meat, poultry and occasionally fish with the heat and hot smoke of a fire, smoking wood, or hot coals of...

.

The control room houses an 80-channel Solid State Logic SL 9000 J Series Total Studio System console.

Edit Suite

On the first floor is the Edit Suite, a room with a Pro Tools rig and a Mackie Digital 8-Bus console for monitoring, and a small iso booth for any recording needed.

Mobile Unit

The Warehouse Studio also has a mobile unit which recorded Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams

' album 18 til I Die
18 til I Die
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in Jamaica

Jamaica

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and in Provence

Provence

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GGGarth
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