Studio North Bremen

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Studio North Bremen
legal form
founding 1966
Seat Bremen , Germany
management Oliver Sroweleit and Gregor Hennig
Branch Music production
Website www.studio-nord.net

The Studio North Bremen is a recording studio in Bremen , where several successful German pop added and numerous international hits mastered were. The studio was founded in 1966, making it the oldest private recording studio in Northern Germany.

history

Studio Nord was founded in 1966 by Wolfgang Roloff in a kind of storage room behind the stage of the "Palette" bar in the basement of the Überseehotel in Bremen (today: Ramada). There were productions by Sigi Hoppe, Marjorie Adams, Ronny (Wolfgang Roloff himself), Silva Manos and Heintje .

Due to the great success of Heintje, among other things, Roloff was able in 1969 to buy the Oberneulander Dorfgasthof Haus Niedersachsen, built in 1910 , and convert it into a recording studio . This was done with the aim of offering the same level independently of the public broadcasters , and cost about as much as the house itself. Heinrich W. Lüdeke designed the acoustics of the recording room . Wolfgang Roloff was thus one of the very first interpreters who not only wrote their own songs, but also produced them completely and sold them to record companies as finished master tapes. Rudi Carrell had all of the songs intended for broadcasts on Radio Bremen produced and recorded in Studio Nord, although Radio Bremen had had an excellent broadcasting hall since the 1950s . In most cases, the musicians used were Roloff's band, The Rio Rangers, as well as the Radio Bremen entertainment orchestra and the Bremen Philharmonic .

In the 1970s, the studio was equipped with a record cutting system, so that from then on Roloff was able to create finished vinyl masters that only had to be duplicated. In the following decades, numerous successes by Münchener Freiheit , Mr. President , Sven Väth , Alphaville , The Notwist , Tocotronic , Beginner , and many others were mastered for vinyl and CD production in Studio Nord .

During the eighties, the sound engineer Bernd Steinwedel increasingly took over the operative business, while Roloff concentrated on composition and administration. Wolfgang Roloff and Bernd Steinwedel died in 2011. In order to maintain the traditional house, Roloff's heirs leased Studio Nord to Oliver Sroweleit and Gregor Hennig , who have been running it since then. After a redesign and renovation of the studio and the musician's apartment, the recording studio resumed operations in 2013. Sroweleit and Hennig put the focus again on recording and album production, so that today again numerous current pop productions come from Bremen.

Productions up to 1980 (selection)

Productions since 2013 (selection)

successes

One of the greatest successes recorded in Studio Nord is the song Sierra Madre del Sur , which is one of the most played songs worldwide thanks to numerous cover versions. Solely by Ronny 15 titles held in the 1960s, up to 27 weeks in the charts, which came Oh My Darling Caroline and Kleine Annabell displaced at No. 1. Heintje in 1968 with Mama , You shall not cry and Heidschi Bumbeidschi it twice in Follow yourself from number 1 in the German single charts. The corresponding album stayed in the charts for 84 weeks, the album Ich sing ein Lied für Dich came to 36 weeks. Rudi Carrell was in the German charts for 14 weeks with the track When it gets really summer again, produced in Studio Nord . Since 2013 chart positions with the albums "Deutschland" by Heinz Rudolf Kunze , "Raw Love" by Rhonda , "The Paradise of Fake Things" by Niels Frevert , "Love is a fridge" by Me and My Drummer and "Krieg und Krieg" of square bottom bracket .

Furnishing

As early as the early 1960s, Roloff was working with two Telefunken T9 2-track tape machines using the ping pong method. He was thus one of the pioneers of this technique developed by Les Paul , in which one transfers from one machine to the other while adding an element. Both the T9 tape machines and the mixer that was used at the time, hand-made by Peter Kohlmann , are still owned by Studio Nord. The studio also has a comprehensive collection of Neumann tube microphones from the early days . Over the decades, the studio has been equipped with the latest technology, but the old equipment has not been sold or disposed of. Due to its size and ceiling height, the hall is one of the few private recording rooms in Germany that are also suitable for orchestral recordings.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anke Plautz: Studio Nord celebrates its 50th anniversary - buten un inside. Buten un Binnen, August 31, 2019, accessed on July 9, 2020 .