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From recording, broadcast, postproduction and A/V
Alibaba’s Beijing Treasure
Alibaba’s Hujing Digital Media & Entertainment Group Studios has opened a new A/V production studio at the company’s Beijing headquarters, designed in partnership with consulting and design firm WSDG. The completed complex includes four control rooms, a large live room and multiple isolation booths, and represents a significant infrastructure enhancement for the audio, video and gaming content development arm of the world’s largest e-commerce platform.
The World Machine
The UK leg of the tour Level 42’s 40th anniversary tour in support of their The World Machine breakthrough album has been extended to cover 32 venues with sound support from Safe Hands Audio – described by audience members as ‘the best gig sound’ they’ve ever heard. Key to the tour’s sound are Electro-Voice loudspeaker systems.
Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres
Kicking off in San José, Costa Rica in 2022 and taking a hiatus following a ten-date residency at London’s Wembley Stadium to concluded in September 2025, Coldplay’s 225-show Music of the Spheres World Tour has visited in 80 cities across 43 countries to date. The tour took advantage of its Australian leg to bring DiGiCo’s Quantum852 onboard.
Timber Canyon Studios
Veteran engineer, mixer, producer and musician Jim Roberts and his wife and business partner, Marie, have launched their new music production facility, Timber Canyon Studios, in the Laramie Mountains of southeast Wyoming, centred on a 32-channel Solid State Logic Origin analogue mixing console.
Winchester Audio Barn
Less than an hour from London, the Winchester Audio Barn has designed by a world-renowned acoustician, a master technician and a dreamer to be ‘where vintage soul meets modern sound’, and may be the only recording studio in the world to share space within a purpose-built complex that includes an event venue, restaurant/bar, and a classic car showroom and workshop.
Opened in autumn 2025 in the Hampshire countryside, the studio is the work of VDC Trading founder Niall Holden, manufacturer of Van Damme Cable, a industry-leading brand that is widely used in both the music and live worlds.