The year was 1980.  A young Paul Frindle is working as a technical engineer at Virgin Records, working on the expansion of the Townhouse and Manor (mobile) studios.  Solid State Logic had just completed their first console and delivered one to Virgin.  Without a proper room for it, the console was placed in the second [...]

Like everything else that Paul worked on, as much of a landmark as the OXF-R3 was, it proved to be merely a stepping stone.  Where it was leading to however could have been radically different.  “I think there was a fantastic opportunity to revive the large studio concept by integrating non-linear storage and editing into [...]

Last year I discovered the conundrum of the digital music paradigm – with all the advances of technology there’s no easy way to discover who are the musicians playing on the song you are listening to.  Upon doing some research I found out that the current ID3 standards have a way to store this information, [...]