RCA Studios, London

RCA recording and mastering studios. Also known as RCA Custom Recording. The studio had two disc cutting rooms known as Suites A and B. The rooms were identically equipped, each has a Studer A80 pre-listen machine together with a remote Studer 480 for tape copying. The pre-listen machines fed Neumann VG66 consoles. The lathes were Neumann VMS66, fitted with Ortofon DSS732 cutter heads and driven by pairs of Ortofon G0741 cutting amplifiers (as of early 1980). Engineers known to have worked here and their runout signatures: Pete Norman (1974-1980) - 'PN' or 'PN-RCA' Fred Frith - Fred Dave Tucker (4) - Dave's RCA Brian East (1976)