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31-504: Established by session musicians David Briggs and Norbert Putnam as Quadrafonic Sound Studio in 1971, the studio immediately became the home of many major recording sessions including Neil Young 's Harvest album which included the single " Heart of Gold ". Kris Kristofferson brought Joan Baez to the studio in 1971 to record her album Blessed Are... , including her hit recording of " The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down ", and Dan Fogelberg recorded his debut studio album Home Free

62-407: A mixing console for recording, with routing flexibility and settings recall unavailable on consoles at that time, Sanders applied his experience to design and build his own, building two mixing consoles with computer control which featured one-button switching between recording, tracking and mixdown modes. The two prototype mixing consoles, given the model designation of SL 4000 A, became the start of

93-863: A series of large-format mixers that would define and establish SSL as a mixing console manufacturer. In 1976, SSL combined the SL 4000's in-line mixing console design with a computer that provided fader automation and programmable tape transport auto-location functionality, A total of six B Series consoles were built for and sold to studios, beginning with Abbey Road Studios in London, followed by Le Studio in Morin-Heights , Canada, Virgin Records' Townhouse Studios in London, and Tocano Studio in Copenhagen. The SL 4000 E Series, introduced in 1979, offered various improvements on

124-530: A co-op group with various producers, engineers and musicians bought it and made it part of several other studios (SoundStage, Downstage, & Omni Studios) they owned and settled on the new studio name of Quad Studios. This group hired a young Belmont student named Kelly Pribble to open and manage the studio. Pribble was tasked with installing the Neve 8068 previously used by Jimmie Bowen at Soundstage, which had been replaced with an SSL SL 6000. Under Pribble's management

155-633: A different studio after a casual meeting. It was also where a band like Lynyrd Skynyrd would be working in one studio and another production team would be working on Whitney Houston in another studio. In 1999 Lou Gonzalez, owner of the similarly-named Quad Studios in New York City bought Quad Studios Nashville and remodeled and expanded the studios. The Trident A-Range console was sold to Butch Vig and installed in his "Smart Studios" in Madison Wisconsin. "Studio A" featured an 80-input SSL 9000J console,

186-483: A shared kitchen / lounge that provided London with a unique studio community feel that many hit record were recorded in by artists Jason Mraz, Train, James Morrison, Adele, Coldplay, A-HA, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), KT Tunstall and many others . Artists recording at Quad Studios Nashville included Keith Urban , Taylor Swift , Lady A , The Fray , Jewel , Phil Vassar , George Strait , Toby Keith , T-Bone Burnett , The Dead Daisies and many more. In 2014, Quad Studios

217-611: Is an American keyboardist , record producer , arranger, composer, and studio owner. Briggs is one of an elite core of Nashville studio musicians known as "the Nashville Cats" and has been featured in a major exhibition by the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2015. He played his first recording session at the age of 14 and has gone on to add keyboards to a plethora of pop , rock , and country artists , as well as recording hundreds of corporate commercials. In May 1966, he

248-519: Is now known as Solid State Organ Systems. The proprietary aptX -codec was sold in a management buyout, with APT Licensing Ltd. incorporated on 1 March 2005 in Belfast . In 2005, musician Peter Gabriel and broadcast entrepreneur David Engelke became majority shareholders of the company. In 2017, Solid State Logic was acquired by the Audiotonix Group, while Gabriel became a major investor in

279-511: Is part of the Audiotonix Group. Solid State Logic was founded by Colin Sanders in 1969 as the first manufacturer of solid-state control systems for pipe organs . Sanders coined the company's name to explain the then-modern technology of transistor and FET switching to organ builders. Sanders also owned and operated Acorn Studios , a recording studio in Stonesfield , Oxfordshire. When he sought

310-450: The "Neve Room", which was Quadrafonic's original studio, had a vintage Neve 8068 mixing console with Flying Faders automation. The 2 smaller studio suites eventually featured Pro Tools HD systems. Kelly Pribble left Quad Studios in 2000 where he relocated to London England and built an eight-studio complex called Kensaltown Studios with Swedish Record Producer Martin Terefe. Again, Pribble built

341-493: The 1990s, SSL also developed products for the post production and motion picture industry, and introduced the A Series digital mixing consoles. In the 2000s, the company introduced the C Series consoles designed to meet the needs of the broadcast production market. In 2003, SSL introduced outboard signal processors that offered processing previously only available in SSL's large-format mixing consoles. The XLogic family of products included

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372-556: The AWS 900+, two years later. SSL eventually listed over 300 studios using the AWS900. SSL later introduced the AWS 916, 924, and 948 with support for SSL's delta control plug-in. In late 2006, SSL launched Duality, a large-format console that combined mixing console functionality of the XL 9000K with the control surface features of the AWS 900. Duality featured updated signal routing controls, accessible from

403-556: The B Series, including a new 4-band EQ section developed in collaboration with George Martin . Most notably, the E Series introduced the ability to save and recall mixer settings, and was the first mixer to feature a compressor/gate on every channel as well as the master bus compressor. SSL introduced the SL 4000 G Series at the AES New York Convention in 1987, which again offered a redesigned EQ, among other improvements. The ability to save and recall mixer settings, along with

434-540: The Duende DSP platform designed to emulate SSL channel strip features for home recording enthusiasts, including filters, SSL E and G Series EQ and dynamics processing. Additionally, the system offers the SSL Stereo Bus Compressor. Based on the digital technology behind SSL's C-Series consoles, Duende was designed to integrate into DAW environments using either a FireWire cable connection or PCI-e card, with

465-536: The Logic Channel, the company's first standalone channel strip . 2005 saw the release of additional processors, including the E Series channel strip and G Series Compressor, which utilized SSL's classic G Series center compressor design elements within a SuperAnalogue design topology. The X-Rack offered a modular solution for outboard signal processing. In late 2004, SSL launched AWS 900, an integrated analogue console and DAW controller, and introduced its successor,

496-459: The console's center section rather than on each channel. The console's channel strips include both E Series & G Series equalization, which is selected via a single button per channel. The console also features 'Variable Harmonic Drive', or VHD microphone/line preamplifiers, which can either be utilised as standard low-distortion preamps, or in a mode which introduces 2nd (even) & 3rd (odd) order harmonic distortion. Also in 2006 SSL introduced

527-614: The digital processing channels appearing as VST or Audio Units plug-ins . On 25 April 2007, SSL announced the release of another plug-in for the Duende, called Drumstrip, which contained a noise gate , a transient shaper, high frequency and low frequency enhancers , and the Listening Mic Compressor. The same year, the company announced its expansion into broadcast video content management and delivery with their MediaWAN system. Solid State Logic sold its organ division in 2002; it

558-435: The following year. Other artists recording at Quadrafonic in its early years included Grand Funk Railroad , The Jackson Five , The Pointer Sisters , Joe Walsh and The James Gang , Pousette-Dart Band , and Dobie Gray , who recorded his R&B classic " Drift Away " at Quad Studios in 1972. A notable album from 1975 by Iguana entitled "The Winds of Alamar" was recorded at the studios with Gene Eichelberger engineering. This

589-513: The group following this transaction. The company received The Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade (Export) in 1981, and The Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation (Technology) in 1993 and 2020. The company received a Special Merit/ Technical Grammy Award at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards in February 2004 for "contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field." Two of SSL's products were inducted into

620-685: The inclusion of a dedicated compressor and noise gate on every channel on SL 4000 E Series consoles and its successors and variants drove widespread adoption in professional recording studios, including The Power Station , Sarm Studios , Larrabee Sound Studios , Battery Studios , Record One , Eden Studios , and RG Jones Recording Studios , and used by recording engineers such as Bob Clearmountain , Steve Lillywhite , Tom Lord-Alge , Alan Moulder , and Trevor Horn . The SL 4000 E Series and G Series consoles were later also made available in 5000 Series, 6000 Series, and 8000 Series formats, which offered various routing and bussing configurations to address

651-513: The main recording area could be taken out to open the space up from the floor to the roof. This was completed providing a very large acoustic area that drummers and engineers loved. This idea got around to producers like Jeff Lynne of ELO fame to come and work in this studio. The new tracking room had a Trident A-Range console installed that was previously used at Cherokee Studios purchased from Norbert Putnam after Putnam replaced it with an SSL in his new studio he built called "Digital Recorders" which

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682-434: The mid to late 1960s and member of the band Area Code 615 from 1969 to 1971. Artists he has worked with include Elvis Presley , Dean Martin , Joan Baez , Nancy Sinatra , B.B. King , Johnny Cash , Dolly Parton , Waylon Jennings , Tony Joe White , George Harrison , Todd Rundgren , Roy Orbison , The Monkees , J. J. Cale , Kris Kristofferson , Alice Cooper , Gary Stewart , Charley Pride and many others. Briggs

713-608: The needs of sound for the recording, film, video, and broadcast markets. SSL introduced SuperAnalogue design in the SL 9000 J Series console, which utilized a capacitor-free signal path to achieve very high bandwidth with extremely low distortion. In 1996 Billboard magazine's Studio Action Chart reported that 83% of number one singles that year had been produced using an SSL mixing console. The company claims that more platinum albums have been recorded on SSL mixing consoles than any other company's equipment combined. By 2004, there were more than 3,000 SSL-equipped facilities worldwide. In

744-455: The purchase of a Sphere Eclipse C mixing console that was purchased from Doppler Studios in Atlanta, and the other over dub studio outfitted with a New Tac Magnum mixing console. In the newly purchased main building it was outfitted as a full tracking room with a custom 40-input Trident A-Range console. During the construction of this studio Pribble asked contractor Gary Bachman if the second floor in

775-444: The studio got so busy that a year that Pribble introduced drawings of his vision of what could be built with the building next door if the two building were combined.The group purchased the building next door. That building housed Music Row Magazine at the time and was owned by David Ross the editor and founder of Music Row Magazine. With this purchase and Pribble's layout there was an additional 2 overdub studios built, one outfitted with

806-468: The studio's upstairs bathroom. The studios originally featured a Quad Eight mixing console and 16-track Ampex MM1100 two-inch tape recorder. In 1975, the owners replaced the Quad Eight with an MCI 500-series mixing console. In 1980, Putnam and Briggs sold Quadrafonic for $ 1 million to Gerald G. Patterson, a developer from Atlanta, but the studio sat empty for several years until 1988 where Ron Kerr and

837-420: Was given the opportunity of recording on sessions for Elvis Presley 's album How Great Thou Art when Floyd Cramer was running late. Briggs continued to record and tour with Presley until February 1977. Briggs and Norbert Putnam opened Quadrafonic Studios in the late 1960s. It was sold in 1976 and Briggs opened House of David. Briggs was a recording artist on Decca , Polydor and Monument records in

868-553: Was housed in the FISI building on Music Row, directly across the street from the United Artists tower. One unique feature different from every other Nashville studio was Quad had only one kitchen / lounge area that was shared by all four studios. This proved to be a great feature for artists, producers and musicians to meet over coffee creating a unique studio community. It was not uncommon for an artist or musician to work on other projects in

899-912: Was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 1999. Briggs was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019. Solid State Logic Solid State Logic Ltd. ( SSL ) is a British company based in Begbroke , Oxfordshire, England that designs and markets audio mixing consoles , signal processors , and other audio technologies for the post-production , video production , broadcast, sound reinforcement and music recording industries. SSL employs over 160 people worldwide and has regional offices in Los Angeles, Milan, New York City, Paris, and Tokyo, with additional support provided by an international network of distributors. Solid State Logic

930-423: Was possibly the first album purposefully recorded in the quadraphonic format, bypassing the more common stereo release. The album was later released with some changes in the song lineup by United Artists in 1976. In 1976, Jimmy Buffett recorded his biggest hit, " Margaritaville " from his best selling album Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes at the studio, and Buffet later donated a stained-glass window for

961-524: Was purchased by hit songwriter Marti Frederiksen and Round Hill Music CEO Josh Gruss . The studios were renovated and restored, and renamed Sienna Recording Studios, with Round Hill establishing new business offices upstairs. 36°8′50.2″N 86°47′43.6″W  /  36.147278°N 86.795444°W  / 36.147278; -86.795444 David Briggs (American musician) David Paul Briggs (born March 16, 1943, in Killen, Alabama , United States)

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