Peter: “In the old days there was always a wall separating the control room from the tape op area, to cut out all the machine noise when you were tracking.

"As time went on that was replaced by a movable wall, but this is the first time that it’s been done away with completely. Machine noise isn’t so much of an issue as it used to be.

"These days there’s all sorts of exciting possibilities to really take advantage of our analogue heritage, and that's something we’re really proud of. We have the best microphone collection in the world, great preamps, and new desks. But we're integrating it to the real world, which is now digital, so we’ve probably got more Pro Tools systems than anyone else too."

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