American recording, mixing, and mastering studio located in East Nashville, Tennessee.
Also credited as:
- Woodland Studio
- Woodland Sound Studio
- Woodland Sound Studios
- Woodland Mastering Studio
Originally built in 191x as a movie theatre.
This mastering/recording studio was built by Glenn Snoddy approximately 1969.
A second mastering room was built by Westlake Audio in 1974, equipped with a Neumann VMS 70 lathe, a Neumann SAL 74 amplifier rack and Studer playback machines.
Lee Hazen and Bob Sowell (RFS) worked there in the beginning.
Ernie Winfrey, Rick Horton and James Pugh were engineers active in 1970.
Denny Purcell (DP) worked there as mastering engineer from 1974 to 1985. (Please notice in runout non-capitalized 𝒹𝑒𝓃𝓃𝓎 / denny, is often mistaken for Jenny)
Skip Shimmin worked there as an engineer from 1978.
Hank Williams (2) worked there as mastering engineer from 1973 to 1983.
Jim Loyd worked there as mastering engineer.
Tom Semmes was also known to work as mastering engineer (TS etched in matrix).
Rex Collier
Lynn Peterzell worked there (LP in runout)
Other known engineers: Bill Baynes
Suffered damages from tornados in 1998 and March 2020.
Bought by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings in 2002.
The front section of the building once housed the operation of Nashboro Record Co. and its labels. This front space currently serves as the office of Acony Records, the label of Welch and Rawlings.
Occasionally denoted as "WSS" or "woodland" etched in deadwax runout matrix sequences. Please use Lacquer Cut At to credit company when present.