I got involved in the early Eighties when the studio was in need of some acoustic upgrades and then U2 demanded a bigger room to record The Joshua Tree album. Windmill Lane was one of those great, iconic studios and it is inextricably linked with U2 for many reasons that are linked to life in Dublin. Tell us about Windmill Lane Studios and your involvement with it? Was The Edge tough to please? In an interview with ROLLING STONE India, Munro talks about studios that were built much before his career took off, such as the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama, and regardless of declining album sales, how studios will always remain the backbone of the music industry.
In his career, which spans over four decades, Munro has designed studios for some of the biggest international artists including AR Rahman, U2, The Rolling Stones, Coldplay and Sting.īesides designing private studios, Munro and his company, Munro Acoustics, have been involved in setting up the sound at some of the best clubs around the world including the Blue Frog in Mumbai. The sound designer reinvented studio sound with the recently-released sE Munro Egg 150 Monitoring System, so it’s no surprise that he has several awards to his name including the Indian Recording Arts award for Global Innovation in Studio Design, presented to him at the PALM Expo in Mumbai last month. Once he got talking to Led Zep and their sound crew, he was fascinated by the world of sound design. It started with delivering a few microphones to Led Zeppelin’s rehearsal studio in London back in the Sixties ”“ Andy Munro was still at university then, studying mechanical engineering and working part time at a hi-fi store.
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