![]() ![]() It wasn't always what it should have been it lacked bottom, depth." "In the past," says Kevin Coyne, one of the first artists to use the original Manor, "there was what you could call a unique Virgin-Manor sound. Closely identified with such Virgin acts as Slaphappy, Henry Cow, Robert Wyatt and Mike Oldfield, the studio also attracted a formidable selection of bands which warmed to the studio's serene setting in rural Oxfordshire. A combination brain and love child of Virgin Record's Managing Director Richard Branson, The Manor has been fully operational for the past three years. The result is a studio which can accurately boast that it is the best in Europe. The Manor have recently overcome all the difficulties inherent in their previous status as an almost cult recording studio. Re-doing a recording studio is no easy task, particularly if the studio is well established, popular with a number of artists, and identified, even vaguely, with a particular "sound" and feel. ![]() Richard Digby Smith, freelance engineer Whatever they did, whatever it cost, it was worth it for the improvement in sound. ![]()
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