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RCA Studio B was a music recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee established in 1957 by Steve Sholes and Chet Atkins for RCA Victor. Originally known simply as the RCA Victor Studio , in 1965 the studio was designated as Studio B after RCA Victor built the newer, larger Studio A in an adjacent building.
At the end of March 1959, Porter took over as chief engineer at what was at the time RCA Victor's only Nashville studio, in the space that would become known as Studio B after the opening of a second studio in 1965. (At the time, RCA's sole Nashville studio had no letter designation.) Porter soon helped Atkins get a better reverberation sound ...
RCA Studio or RCA Studios may refer to: RCA Studio A, a recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee, built in 1964; RCA Studio B, a recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee, built in 1956; RCA Studios New York, a recording studio in New York; RCA Studio II, a 1970s video game console; RCA Victor Studio (McGavock), a recording studio in Nashville ...
RCA Victor popularized combined radio receiver-phonographs, and also created RCA Photophone, a movie sound-on-film system that competed with William Fox's sound-on-film Movietone and Warner Bros.' sound-on-disc Vitaphone. Although early announcements of the RCA and Victor merger stressed that the two firms were linking equally to form a joint ...
In 1964, Chet Atkins, Owen Bradley and Harold Bradley established the newer, larger RCA Victor Studio A at 806 17th Avenue South, adjacent to RCA's existing studio (which was subsequently designated RCA Victor Studio B). [74] The studio was operated by RCA until January 1977, when their Nashville offices were closed and properties located on ...
Bradley Studios, RCA Studio B, and RCA Studio A were essential locations to the development of the "Nashville Sound", a style characterized by background vocals and strings. The Nashville Sound both revived the popularity of country music and helped establish Nashville's reputation as an international recording center, with these three studios ...
RCA Victor's Studio B had recently been equipped with a new three-track recorder. [24] To further improve the recording of Presley's voice, Porter had Telefunken U-47 microphones placed in the studio. [25] The U-47 was the first condenser microphone that could switch between omnidirectional and cardioid patterns.
Studio A was the larger studio, with space to accommodate up to 35 musicians. Studio B was smaller, and used for piano and chamber music recordings. The shared control room was equipped with a simple RCA mixing console designed and built by its own engineering department, as were the studio's most popular microphones, the RCA 44 and RCA 77 ...