Phonag Studios

Swiss recording studio based at Lindau, Zurich; also named "Phonag Tonstudio Lindau (Zürich)" or "Tonstudio Phonag". Opend 29 June 1970 by Hellmuth Kolbe. The studio measured 161 square meters over two floors. The technical facilities were in a control room with a double-glass window to the studio. Kolbe's first recording console was the modular portable Leonhard valve mixing desk and he used Tannoy integrated concentric coaxial speakers and Studer tape recorders. In 1975, the studio was upgraded to a 16 track transistorised MCI desk and Studer A80 8–16 track recorders. Between 1972 and 1975 Jim Duncombe, later co-founder of the Powerplay Studios in Maur, Switzerland, was the studio manager and recording engineer. Phonag's rental lease finished on 30 September 1980 and engineer Robert Lattmann entered into a new contract with the hotel as owner of the studio.