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Cameli: Won’t miss London’s “politics, bullshit and backstabbing”


UNITED KINGDOM Wired Masters relies on PMC Power By Murray Stassen


KEVIN GRAINGER and Cass Irvine, co-founders of South London’s Wired Masters, have recently installed a pair of PMC MB2 XBD-Active monitors in their second mixing/mastering


suite, complementing the PMC BB5 XBD-As in their other main room.


“Our clients love them,” says Grainger. “And you don’t need to blast them, either; they sound great quiet. You can still feel the air moving, even at low


listening levels, and still have a good idea of how it will sound in a club – but without destroying your hearing.” Irvine concludes: “Within a month, I had really fallen in love with them.”  www.pmc-speakers.com


Wired Masters co-founder Cass Irvine, at the controls with his PMC s


entire contents of Sphere, bar a Pro Tools rig and the Neve 88R console used for recording Adele’s album 21, to the west coast, and he plans to have an Andy Munro-designed studio up and running by mid-2015. “I’m not going to miss London.” he said with a sigh. “The politics, the bullshit, the backstabbing – I have no interest in playing the sort of games you had to play to get a look-in [here]. Having said that, Sphere has been busy for 13 years. How many studios can claim to have recorded four Queen DVDs, a James Bond soundtrack and an Adele album? It’s hard to single out a highlight – other than being able to stay open for as long as we did, and closing on my terms.” However, Cameli’s departure is not quite the end for the former SW11 launderette. The new owner – a firm of property developers – is still running rooms in the renamed Battersea Park Studios “pretty much as they were”, according to producer Gavin Goldberg. A resident of a Sphere production room since 2008, Goldberg now occupies Studio 1 with his writing partner Andy Wright, while Duran Duran have made the full transition into Studio 2. Other rooms there are also busy, he reports, while certain staff have been retained from the Sphere days.


“The owners have refurbished the place a little, and are trying to keep everyone happy,” Goldberg told PSNEurope. “We don’t know what the long-term prospect is, but, for the next year or so, you could say the lunatics have taken over the asylum.” 


Battersea Park Studios: +44 20 7326 9450


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