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Greenhouse Studios is a music recording facility founded by Bruce Levens in 1987. The facility has recorded over 1000 albums during the last 25 years. The studio was incorporated as Lions Gate Studios, subsequently changing its name to Vancouver Studios before finally settling on the Greenhouse Studios name. The operation started as a 1 room studio in half of an industrial building. A steady stream of clients attracted by the equipment, facilities, location and mostly the people allowed Greenhouse Studios to grow. The original MCI console was replaced by an SSL G series which brought in even bigger projects. A smaller studio was built to handle overdubs and budget conscious artists. When the building next door became available it was incorporated into the operation, Studio 1 would become a stand alone studio complete with large live and control rooms, separate machine room, bathroom, kitchen and lounge facilities. 2 Edit suites were added to handle the post production work the facility was doing. A penthouse studio and warehouse studio were also created in the 90s. The entire operation would close and move close to downtown Vancouver early in the new century. A large tracking room, an overdub studio and mix room were all created. Currently Greenhouse Studios operates the large tracking room with a Neve console. == Music artists == The careers of international stars k.d. lang, Queensrÿche and Sarah McLachlan were built on songs recorded at Greenhouse Studios. The facility has also recorded for many of Canada's top bands including 54-40, Default, Wide Mouth Mason, Matthew Good Band, Age of Electric, Odds, Spirit of the West, Barney Bentall, Colin James and Pluto. The band Nickelback would record three albums at Greenhouse, The State, Silver Side Up & The Long Road. The State was recorded and produced by Dale Penner with Dave Ashton assisting. Silver Side Up was recorded by Rick Parashar. The Silver Side Up album would yield the #1 played radio song, 'How You Remind Me' of the decade 2000-2009 according to Neilsen Soundscan. Nickelback would be named the music group of the decade by Billboard Magazine. The third Nickelback album, the Long Road was Produced by Chad Kroeger and Engineered by Joey Moi who would go on to Co-Produce and Engineer all the Nickelback albums until the end of the decade. An unknown torch singer from Alberta started recording at Greenhouse in the late 1980s. k.d. lang would end up recording five different projects with Greenhouse including the ''Engenue'' album, the album that gave her international status and won a Grammy Award for engineering for Marc Raemer. It is the only album recorded in Western Canada to achieve this lofty distinction. k.d. lang would be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at the 2013 Juno Awards. k.d. lang would collaborate on the projects at Greenhouse Studios with Ben Mink, fiddle player and song writer extrodinaire. The first client to walk through the doors of Greenhouse Studios was Steven Drake, singer and guitar player of the band the Odds. The Odds would record 3 of their 4 albums at Greenhouse Studios, the fourth album unfortunately could not be accommodated due to a Bob Rock production. Steven Drake would add producing and mixing to his musical skills, he would work on albums by 54-40, The Tragically Hip, Staggered Crossing and Tegan and Sara at the studio. Steven would also be the last client to record at the original facility, his final mix was completed in Studio B control room while the live room was being demolished. Greenhouse Studios has hosted numerous international clients. Roger Daltrey of The Who recorded vocal tracks at the studio. Salt 'n Pepper would record at Greenhouse. Cher would record tracks in Vancouver at the Studio. Akon worked on new tracks following his show at GM Place. Queensrÿche recorded and mixed the ''Empire'' album. Peter Collins would produce the album and James Barton would engineer with Marc Raemar from Greenhouse Studios assisting. The Empire album sold 3 million copies in the U.S. and received a triple platinum certification. The album produced the power ballad Silent Lucidity which reached No. 1 on the main stream rock tracks and No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100. Skid Row recorded the album ''Subhuman Race'', the followup to ''Slave to the Grind''. The production team of Bob Rock producing and Randy Staub engineering would team up to make this album. Brian Dobbs and Darren Grahn were the 2nd engineers on this record. Lead singer Sebastian Bach would continue his tradition of hi-jinx during an interview with Vancouverite Nadrwuar the Human Serviette. Matthew Good Band and the subsequent Matthew Good would several albums at Greenhouse. Last of the Ghetto Astronauts, Underdogs and Beautiful Midnight were all recorded at the facilities. Matthew Good would bring in Warne Livesey as a music producer. Warne Livesey a music producer, engineer and mixer from England and the Producer of the Diesel and Dust by Midnight Oil has recorded multiple music projects at Greenhouse Studios since. Bruce Levens of Greenhouse Studios would found London Smith Discs in 1991. The London Smith label started out recording the band Freewater at Greenhouse. The next artist up would be Stigmata comprised on Kevin Lucks and Mark Findler. North Vancouver band Mushroom Trail would record the debut album before unceremoniously disappearing from the music business. The final project for London Smith was the sophomore release of Lowest of the Low produced by Texan Don Was. The first release of Lowest of the Low, Shakespeare My Butt... is considered one of the great Canadian albums. k-os would record and mix part of his 2012 release Black on Blonde. The Mounties would record their first track Headphones in 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Greenhouse Studios」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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