Control A

Where every session ends up. A 48-channel analogue desk, soffit-mounted monitors and a sofa long enough for a whole band to argue about the snare.

Control A looks into the live room through a double window, so the engineer and the band can see each other all day. The desk was built in 1987 and recapped in 2023, every channel strip is the same and every fader still moves like butter.

Behind the desk sit the racks: compressors, equalisers, a plate and a spring, all on the patchbay. Mixing sessions happen here, with recall notes written for every song.