London’s Dean St Studios has installed Dolby Atmos in its flagship Studio 1 as part of refurbishments undertaken by Veale Associates during its temporary closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.

One of the last professional large-format recording studios in Central London – has hosted artists ranging from David Bowie and Paul Weller to Adele, John Legend and Lady Gaga. The install exceeds the Dolby Atmos standard requirements, allowing artists across all genres of music to work to higher audio standards and deliver music in a new immersive format.

The Dolby Atmos install features PMC’s flagship IB2S XBD-A active monitors covering left and right main channels, an IB2S-A monitor for the centre channel, ten discrete Wafer2 loudspeakers for surround and height channels, and four sub2 subwoofers. The Dean St Studio set-up replicates the PMC system designed for Universal Music and installed two years ago at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles.

‘I have grown up in the music industry and have seen a lot of advances and change over the years, but nothing excites me more than Dolby Atmos Music,’ says Dean St Studios MD, Jasmin Lee. ‘This is a game changer for artists in terms of how they can create their music and engage with fans. I have listened to tracks in our new Dolby Atmos mix studio and my mind is just blown by it. This is music like you’ve never heard it before. We have a proud history of working with some of the world’s most successful artists and we can’t wait to offer them this new more immersive format which I’m sure will unleash a whole new creative journey for them.’

‘Dean St Studios has an incredible track history of working with scores of award-winning artists to record their groundbreaking music between its four walls,’ says Dolby Europe VP of Commercial Partnerships, Javier Foncillas. ‘We’re thrilled that the iconic studio has created a dedicated space for mixing in Dolby Atmos and are excited to see the immersive creative output from those that walk through its famed doors in the future.’

‘We are delighted to be bringing this statement Dolby Atmos system into the UK for the first time, and could not be more pleased to be spear-heading it alongside a facility with so much heritage and positive reputation as Dean Street Studios,’ says PMC Business Development Manager, Chris Allen. ‘PMC’s flagship Dolby Atmos install has become the reference for many Dolby Atmos Music studios, and although Dean Street’s room is relatively small, we were able to work with Dolby to design an effective system that meets and exceeds Dolby Atmos specifications. The result is incredibly pleasing and the system respectfully, and easily, reproduces all genres of music consistently at all levels.’