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249:, which has hosted numerous artists and sessions, including the Grammy Award-winning Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen Original Broadway Cast Recordings, Sturgill Simpson, Kaleo, Ed Sheeran, Wiz Khalifa, Cardi B, Brent Cobb, Janelle Monáe, Jason Mraz, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lauryn Hill, Christina Perri, Charlie Puth, Sara Bareilles, Anne Marie, Shooter Jennings, Rob Thomas, Kelly Clarkson, SWMRS, Christine & The Queens, Melanie Martinez, MisterWives, Wallows, Royal Blood, Santigold, Halestorm, Anderson East, Jon Batiste, ARIZONA, The Roots, Roberta Flack, and many more. 111: 1495: 79:
In 1959, Atlantic Records and Atlantic Studios moved to 1841 Broadway. The studios were in the co-joined building at 11 West 60th Street. When Atlantic Records moved to 75 Rockefeller Center in the mid-1970s, Atlantic Studios expanded to occupy the entire second floor of both buildings. In the early
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would do recording at the offices. At night the desks would be pushed against the walls and singing groups would gather around one or two microphones in the inner office and he would be in the outer office recording singing groups with a small mixer and a tape recorder.
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Mix Room – approximately 15' × 12', later a new repositioned mix room and vocal booth 20' × 18'. Consoles were a built-in-house 16-channel passive summing mixer, then original Studio A MCI "black" console, then a third MCI 528 purchased from
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The studio complex eventually consisted of two studios, a mix room, two disk mastering rooms, two editing and tape copy rooms, two digital transfer rooms, a quality control room for
373: 1482: 34:, Atlantic Recording Studios was initially located at 234 West 56th Street from November 1947 until mid-1956. When the Shorty Rogers and His Giants disc of 33.33 rpm called 255:
also includes Atlantic Studios West in Hollywood, CA; Atlantic Studios NOHO in North Hollywood, CA; Atlantic Studios ATL in Atlanta, Georgia; and a studio in Burbank, CA.
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The studios closed in 1990 and Atlantic Records' in-house digital and analog production rooms and the tape library were re-located to West 54th Street.
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Studio B – approximately 30' × 15' × 15', control room 15' × 15'. Consoles were MCI 528 and then Neve, and monitoring was by Altec and then UREI.
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was issued in August 1956, the address of Atlantic Recording Studios had relocated to 157 W 57th Street. The studio was the first to record in
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was built in the basement of 1841 Broadway, but it was rarely used in later years; reverberation was primarily provided by
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Atlantic Records relocated to 1633 Broadway New York, NY in 2015, and opened a new in-house studio,
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consoles (the "black" console and then a 528), later the Hidley control room had a custom
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also recorded at Quadrafonic Studios, Nashville and Sam Phillips Studios, Memphis
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Studio A – approximately 50' × 30' × 15', control room 20' × 15', and a later a
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console in the new mix room. Monitoring was facilitated with Altec monitors.
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also recorded at Hit Factory, RPM Sound, The Record Plant, New York
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Chronological list, with album, artist, and recording dates :
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redesign 24' × 24'. The control room had two generations of
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also recorded at Chung King Metal Studios, New-York
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recording studio
Atlantic Records
New York City
Martians Come Back!
stereo
Tom Dowd
Atlantic Records
Tom Dowd
Ampex
Jerry Wexler
Atlantic Records
45s
LPs
Cassettes
8-Tracks
CDs

Hidley
MCI
Neve
Altec
Criteria Studios
Solid State Logic
Neumann
Scully
Disk Cutting systems
Studer
Sony
AKG
Sennheiser

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