Comments on: Ye Olde Pye – By Fran Ashcroft http://recordproduction.com/blog/2010/01/ye-olde-pye-by-fran-ashcroft/ Record Producers, Recording Studios, Equipment Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:19:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Fran Ashcroft http://recordproduction.com/blog/2010/01/ye-olde-pye-by-fran-ashcroft/comment-page-1/#comment-106 Fran Ashcroft Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:40:11 +0000 http://recordproduction.com/blog/?p=1094#comment-106 Ian - what fun remastering TOTP albums! I know Elton John was on some of those early ones. One take wonders! Ian – what fun remastering TOTP albums! I know Elton John was on some of those early ones. One take wonders!

]]> By: recordpr http://recordproduction.com/blog/2010/01/ye-olde-pye-by-fran-ashcroft/comment-page-1/#comment-104 recordpr Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:08:24 +0000 http://recordproduction.com/blog/?p=1094#comment-104 Fran, I think you may be right. :) Fran, I think you may be right. :)

]]> By: Ian Shepherd http://recordproduction.com/blog/2010/01/ye-olde-pye-by-fran-ashcroft/comment-page-1/#comment-103 Ian Shepherd Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:44:38 +0000 http://recordproduction.com/blog/?p=1094#comment-103 Great post ! There's some amazing stuff in the Pye back catalogue - I've seem to have re-mastered a good deal of it over the years, for some reason. Including a whole slew of those Top Of The Pops discs, Fran - whatever the budget restrictions were, they came out sounding *great* ! The first album I recorded for Kenny Ball (over 15 years ago now...!) he said I'd got him the best sound since he'd worked at Pye - it's still one of my favourite ever compliments :-D Ian Great post !

There’s some amazing stuff in the Pye back catalogue – I’ve seem to have re-mastered a good deal of it over the years, for some reason. Including a whole slew of those Top Of The Pops discs, Fran – whatever the budget restrictions were, they came out sounding *great* !

The first album I recorded for Kenny Ball (over 15 years ago now…!) he said I’d got him the best sound since he’d worked at Pye – it’s still one of my favourite ever compliments :-D

Ian

]]> By: Fran Ashcroft http://recordproduction.com/blog/2010/01/ye-olde-pye-by-fran-ashcroft/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Fran Ashcroft Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:11:00 +0000 http://recordproduction.com/blog/?p=1094#comment-102 To my understanding, Pye had a flood that prompted the closure, and the entire company was sold shortly thereafter, along with Maison Rouge, which they'd acquired along the way. I thought Nova was close by, but a different studio entirely... Joe Brown owned it? Seem to remember doing a session there and the room was so dead the band couldn't play in sync with each other without headphones! To my understanding, Pye had a flood that prompted the closure, and the entire company was sold shortly thereafter, along with Maison Rouge, which they’d acquired along the way. I thought Nova was close by, but a different studio entirely… Joe Brown owned it? Seem to remember doing a session there and the room was so dead the band couldn’t play in sync with each other without headphones!

]]> By: recordpr http://recordproduction.com/blog/2010/01/ye-olde-pye-by-fran-ashcroft/comment-page-1/#comment-100 recordpr Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:04:42 +0000 http://recordproduction.com/blog/?p=1094#comment-100 Great stuff Fran! Good to see your Malcolm Davies mention. He later moved to the PWL mastering studio (Transformation) but the last time I saw him was on the TV on the Chris Evans C4 program a good few years back. Also, my memory may be going but wasn't Pye to become Nova Studios for a while before it's closure? They had a Soundcraft in there then I think. :-) Mike Great stuff Fran! Good to see your Malcolm Davies mention. He later moved to the PWL mastering studio (Transformation) but the last time I saw him was on the TV on the Chris Evans C4 program a good few years back.

Also, my memory may be going but wasn’t Pye to become Nova Studios for a while before it’s closure? They had a Soundcraft in there then I think.

:-)

Mike

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