Royal recorders

Royal Recorders was a recording studio in Lake Geneva (Wisconsin) , USA , which was founded in 1984 as Sound Summit Studios on the premises of the former Shade Tree Studios . It was renamed as Mr. MusicHead in 1993 after a change of ownership .

In May 1986, Bob Brigham acquired the studio as chief sound engineer and Ron Fajerstein as financier. They renamed it Royal Recorders and equipped it with the latest recording technology. It was considered the leading recording studio for albums in Chicago and the surrounding area in the late 1980s. In the studio, albums by musicians and groups such as Survivor (still in Sound Summit Studios ), Adrian Belew , T'Pau , Red Hot Chili Peppers or Skid Row were recorded or mixed. The studio was in the Americana Resort, the former Playboy Club, in the middle of a scenic area on Lake Geneva.

The studio consisted of a 6.40 m × 6 m control room with membrane absorbers in the rear wall and a reflective front. The recording room was 10.60 mx 7.30 m and was paneled with ash. Italian marble was also used in the soundproofed cabin.

The studio had modern mixing consoles from Solid State Logic and, with the 4072E, used a mixing console with 80 inputs (64 mono, 8 stereo channels) in 1986, which digitally saves all settings during the mixing process with the Total Recall function and could reproduce again. At the time, it was considered the largest installation by Solid State Logic. In addition, the studio had two digital 32-channel multitrack tape recorders X-86 from ProDigi and two digital 24-channel multitrack recorders A800 from Studer.

Adrian Belew has worked with Royal Recorders since 1985 and moved to Lake Geneva in March 1987. He worked at Royal Records as producer in residence . In 1993 he took over the studio and ran it under the name of Mr. MusicHead .

literature

Moira McCormick: Royal Recorders Gives Clients the Royal Treatment , Billboard Magazine , Vol. 99, No. 55, December 26, 1987

Web links

Royal Recordes discography on discogs.com. Retrieved October 16, 2015.
Pictures from the control room of the Royal Recorder on stringstation.com. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
Pictures of Bob Brigham and Ron Fajerstien with Adrian Belew and the Royal Recorders staff on stringstation.com. Retrieved October 19, 2015.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Moira McCormick: Royal Recorders Gives Clients the Royal Treatment , Billboard Magazine , Vol. 99, No. 55, December 26, 1987, accessed October 15, 2015 at news.google.com
↑ Jeff Apter: Fornication: The Red Hot Chili Peppers Story , Omnibus Press, London, New York et al. 2009, ISBN 978-0-85712-065-6 , p. 266
^ ^A ^b Susan Masino, Les Paul: Famous Wisconsin Musicians , Badger Books Inc., Oregon 2003, ISBN 1878569-88-0 , p. 177
↑ Thor Christensen: "Focus on Adrian Belew," The Milwaukee Journal , May 29, 1987, p. 1D, accessed October 19, 2015 at news.google.com
^ Susan Masino, Les Paul: Famous Wisconsin Musicians , Badger Books Inc., Oregon 2003, ISBN 1878569-88-0 , p. 124

[billboard-1] Moira McCormick: Royal Recorders Gives Clients the Royal Treatment , Billboard Magazine , Vol. 99, No. 55, December 26, 1987, accessed October 15, 2015 at news.google.com

[2] Jeff Apter: Fornication: The Red Hot Chili Peppers Story , Omnibus Press, London, New York et al. 2009, ISBN 978-0-85712-065-6 , p. 266

[musicians-3] A ^b Susan Masino, Les Paul: Famous Wisconsin Musicians , Badger Books Inc., Oregon 2003, ISBN 1878569-88-0 , p. 177

[milwaukeejournal-4] Thor Christensen: "Focus on Adrian Belew," The Milwaukee Journal , May 29, 1987, p. 1D, accessed October 19, 2015 at news.google.com

[5] Susan Masino, Les Paul: Famous Wisconsin Musicians , Badger Books Inc., Oregon 2003, ISBN 1878569-88-0 , p. 124