#davidwrench

Via Instagram, a photo of Nigel in his studio (you can see the corner of the Dalcon console and his well-known AKG binaural microphone head). What you can also see is an EMS Synthi and a 3M tape machine.

Producer David Wrench, who occasionally works in Nigel’s studio, sheds more light on this particular 3M machine, saying it previously lived in the Rolling Stones mobile rig and may have been used to record a number of classic records. (Also: look at the poster in each photo - it’s the same machine and location in both photos.)

Probably not surprising that Nigel would own such storied equipment. 

It should be noted that I have not yet identified the speaker mounted in the wall.

OCTOBER 2018 EDIT:

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On Instagram, Strong Room Studios made a playlist of songs that have passed through Strong Room 2, Nigel’s studio since he left The Hospital in Covent Garden. Included are tracks from Thom Yorke’s Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, Daydreaming from A Moon Shaped Pool and a bunch of songs that were mixed by David Allen Wrench (Glass Animals, FKA Twigs, Caribou, etc) and Marta Salogni (Binder).

So why is this significant? Well, these tracks were most likely mixed on the Dalcon console so the playlist gives you an idea of what the console is capable of sounding like - super clean and very punchy, by many accounts. Certainly capable of serving any kind of music, as we know from its history at Ocean Way and with Nigel.

I will have a more in-depth post on the Dalcon console in the future. Look for that in the next few weeks.