Studio 2 has one of three consoles commissioned by producer George Martin and Engineer Geoff Emerick in 1977 for Air Studios in London. The 52-channel A6630 was originally installed in the Oxford Street studios, and later went to Atlantic Studios in New York until 1991 when it was brought to Vancouver.

For the next few years it was overhauled, refurbished and modified by the Warehouse Studio’s head technician Ron “Obvious” Vermeulen. On February 9, 1998 it went in to operation in studio 2.

The Neve Air console features the 31106 equalizer with frequencies chosen by Martin, Emerick and Neve to be the most musically useful. These are also the first Neve consoles to have remote mic pre amps. The amp modules are racked in the studio and controlled using the gain pot on the console. This allows all signals to travel at line level from the studio into the control room eliminating problems associated with long low level mic runs.

In 2002 Rupert Neve visited the Warehouse Studio and gave his seal of approval. 30 years after it was built by some of the best names in the industry, this desk is still considered to be one of the best sounding consoles ever produced.

– is 58 x 32 ft (1856 sq ft) 17 x 10 m (173 sq metres) – 24 ft ceiling (7.3 metres)

A private, modern, fully equipped 5 star A room Studio in Vancouver, BC. Digital and analog multi- track recording & mixing studio. Outfitted with a SSL 4072 G+ Console, and 18 Neve pre/eqs 1081’s and 1073’s. Studer 800 and Pro Tools.

The Armoury live room, with its incredible acoustics and natural light, is a tracking favorite of the top engineers and producers in the industry. The well apportioned non-technical areas, combined with its generously sized live room and control room, make it a welcoming place for a five piece rock band, a thirty piece orchestra, or a forty person choir, any of which might be working at the facility on a given day.

The live room measures 36 feet by 30 feet with maple flooring and 25 foot high vaulted ceilings, which help deliver sonic character and an overall sense of spaciousness. Tubes of acoustic treatment and a cedar wood diffuser behind fabric help balance the sound while lending a touch of sonic warmth.
– is 36 x 30 ft (1,080 sq ft) 11 x 9 m (100 sq metres) – 25 ft ceiling (7.6 metres)

Studio One was originally built in 1975 for the CBC Radio Orchestra, and can handle 90+ musicians. It has a noise floor of less than 30dbA, which is very quiet. The recording room has variable acoustics controlled by heavy velour drapes, Helmholtz diffusers and is built 40 feet (12 metres) underground.

The VFO team brings in their own dual ProTools systems, interfaced with Focusrite’s Dante interfaces, and uses top shelf audio preamplifiers (Crane, Grace, UA, Neve 511, Millenium) and microphones, such as the Neumann M-150 decca tree, U87’s, Royer 122 and a couple of vintage RCA 44’s.

– is 65 x 36 ft (2300 sq ft) 20 x 11 m (214 sq metres) – 27 ft ceiling (8.3 metres)