The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, Canada, is Bryan Adams’ flagship recording complex inside Gastown’s restored 1886 Oppenheimer Building—a heritage brick landmark reborn as a four-room studio in the mid-1990s after a multi-year restoration that later earned a City of Vancouver Heritage Award. The rooms pair exposed brick and timber with serious tech; a calling card is the trio of classic Neve AIR consoles (ex-AIR Studios lineage) with remote mic pres, giving the place its big, polished “band record” sound.
Heavy-music note: AC/DC cut multiple late-era albums here—Black Ice, Rock or Bust and Power Up among them—cementing the studio’s hard-rock reputation, while metal and dark-rock projects have come through for mixing (e.g., Paradise Lost’s In Requiem). The result is a room equally at home with high-gain guitars and radio-ready sheen. Many famous records have been recorded or mixed here, like Slayer – God Hates Us All, Metallica – Cunning Stunts, and Airbourne – No Guts. No Glory..
Background: the complex was designed/installed by engineer Ron “Obvious” Vermeulen and opened mid-’90s; Adams kept original brick-and-beam character throughout, preserving the site’s history as Vancouver’s oldest surviving brick warehouse and even a former temporary City Hall in the 1880s.
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100 Powell St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1G1, Canada
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