Control Room B

Featuring a one-of-a-kind analogue console custom-built for Olympic Studios in London, England, Control Room B offers an intimate working environment ideal for smaller production teams. 

Fully integrated into the rest of the facility, Control Room B is equally suited for large tracking or mixing sessions. Control Room B is located next to an intimate isolation booth and can also be connected to any of Studio Bell’s unique live rooms to achieve your desired sound.

What’s Inside

• Olympic Studios Custom Recording Console

  Conceived by Olympic Studios chief engineer Keith Grant, this classic British recording console was built in 1977 to replace the iconic Studio A Console. Olympic’s renowned custom recording equipment and sound engineers attracted the likes of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Kinks, and David Bowie. In fact, much of the timeless music from the 1960s and 1970s was recorded at Olympic—some on this very console. Its specs include:

  • 24 discrete custom Olympic mic/line inputs with 3-band EQ, filters and inserts
  • 16 custom-made Raindirk mic/line inputs with 4-band parametric EQ, filters and inserts
  • 24 tape returns
  • 44 inputs to mix buss
  • 24 mono multitrack busses with pan
  • 3 mono cue send
  • 4 mono effect sends with 3-band EQ
  • 2 24-track return cue mixes
• Facility Connectivity
  • 48 mic lines
  • 24 tie lines
  • 16-channel Aviom cue system
  • Custom visual communication CCTV system
  • 32 analog I/O to DAW, 24 analog I/O to tape, 4 stereo analog 2-track I/O
  • 28 channels of AES and 3 Word Clock sends with 1 Word Clock Return to Machine Room
  • 5 level tie lines
• Outboard Equipment
  • Compressors: 8X F60oA+D limiters (built into console), Smart Research C2 Compressor, 2X Empirical Labs EL8 Distressor Compressor, Purple Audio MC77, Trident MTG stereo compressor/limiter
  • Equalizers: RCA Passive Filter, 2X Trident CB9066 Parametric
  • Effects: Digitech RDS500, Yamaha R1000, MXR Pitch Transposer, Lexicon PCM 60, Lexicon PCM 70, tie lines and remote to EMT 140 solid state plate
• Monitoring
  • Main/soffit monitors: State-of-the-art CF-750’s powered by Revolution Custom Shop modified Bespoke Amplifiers
  • Alternative monitor choices: Genelec 1038B, Yamaha Ns-10’s, Yamaha HS8, Dynaudio BM Compact MkII, and Alesis Monitor One