History
The studio was founded as Westlake Audio in the early 1970s by Tom Hidley, and is credited as "one of the first big commercial efforts to produce acoustically standardised 'interchangeable' rooms". Their rooms aimed for an acoustic design that could give a fairly flat frequency response at the recording position, with the ability to control reverberation delay. They were popular, and "Westlake-style" rooms spread to a number of other studios by the late 1970s.
A number of well-known artists have recorded at the studio, including: Michael Jackson, Slayer, Men at Work, Frank Ocean, Josh Groban, Quincy Jones, Alanis Morissette, Dave Matthews, Madonna, Shakira, Nas, Keyshia Cole, Rihanna, Aaliyah, Missy Elliott, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Emily Bear, Nine Inch Nails, Greyson Chance, Jake Totino, and Justin Bieber. New girl-group Fifth Harmony has said they are recording there. A number of films and television shows have also recorded their audio at Westlake.
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