Le Studio Morin Heights

Le Studio was a recording studio located in Morin Heights, Canada. It was founded by Andre Perry in the 1970s. Artists by the likes of Rush (most notably), Bee Gees, Bryan Adams, Cat Stevens and several more have recorded at this studio.

Sting first recorded at Le Studio when he did the demo of "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic".

The Police's first experience of working at Le Studio was when they made an unreleased live album there in August 1981. They came back and had mixed Synchronicity there using an automated SSL console in January/February 1983.

Sting also overdubbed/mixed some of the Dream of the Blue Turtles at Le Studio in 1985.

Mixing console

 * Solid State Logic SL4000E Master Studio System /w Total Recall automation, Serial No. 11 - now owned by Tree Sound Studios

Tape machines & mixdown materials

 * Studer A80 Mk. II 24-track
 * Studer A800 Mk. III 24-track
 * Studer A80 RC 2-track machines
 * JVC DAS-90 (later DAS-900) digital audio recording system
 * 3 cassette decks

Outboard gear
Compressors/limiters/dynamics processors:
 * Altec 9473A Dual Compressor
 * Dbx 161
 * Orban 516E Parasound De-esser
 * Orange County Vocal Stressor unit
 * Roger Mayer RM-58(?)
 * Neve 33609 compressor/limiter racks(?)
 * UREI LA-3A (x2)
 * RCA BA6A tube limiters (x3)

Digital delays & processing:
 * AMS DMX 15-80S digital delay/harmonizer (added 1984?)
 * Deltalab Effectron ADM 1024 delay
 * Eventide FL-201 Instant Flanger
 * Eventide H949 Harmonizer
 * Klark Teknik DN-34 Time Processor
 * Lexicon PCM-41
 * Loft 440
 * Ursa Major Space Station SST-282
 * Korg SDD-3000??

Reverberation:
 * EMT 140S Stereo plate
 * EMT 140M live echo
 * Lexicon 224X digital /w remote
 * Mastermix

Equalisation: Misc:
 * Advision discrete EQ (x4)
 * Pultec EQ (added 1984?)
 * Survival Projects Autopanner
 * Synton Syntovox 222 analog vocoder
 * UREI digital metronome
 * NTP Phase Scope(?)

Noise Reduction:
 * Dolby 361 NR system
 * Dolby M16 24-trk NR

Monitor speakers
Main monitors:
 * UREI 813

Playback monitors:
 * Acoustic Research
 * Advent
 * Altec
 * Baby Reds
 * Philips
 * KLH
 * Tannoy

Monitor amplifiers: Studer A-68, BGW 750A, McIntosh MC2105, McIntosh MC2505, McIntosh MC2300, BGW 250B