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“I’ve hardly spent any time in here at all,” he admits as we move into the control room to do the interview. Alan fondly recalls that it was this desk he used to mix the 1999 US chart-topping double album The Fragile, by Nine Inch Nails.Īlan has yet to make himself feel quite so at home in the more-functional looking tracking room, reached by climbing a very wide flight of stairs leading directly up and out of the reception waiting area. We laugh at the unintentional gag, and the atmosphere becomes even more relaxed. “I rescued it from the flood,” says Alan, referring to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, not business partner Flood. It is also home to the large SSL G+ Ultimation 72-channel desk, once owned by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, but bought by Alan and shipped over from New Orleans when Trent moved his studio to LA. Reached from reception by following a short, narrow corridor and descending a few steps, the mix room is obviously far more established and homely than the new one up on the first floor, having been dressed with rugs and thick velvety curtains and lit by domestic standard lamps. For the last four years most of Alan’s mixing has taken place in the building’s basement, where he and long-time friend and collaborator, Flood, share another studio. It turns out that the newly acquired 1860-square foot first floor studio (comprising a large control room, spacious live studio and two isolation booths, each capable of housing ensembles or whole bands), is primarily a facility for tracking.

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The Placebo track he was working on in the downstairs mixing room of the North London studio complex is now done, and he seems perfectly happy to participate in a full photo session and interview. He was busy putting the final touches to a Placebo album track mix, and his dislike of having his picture taken also meant that getting a photograph of him in the studio seemed unlikely, but sometimes things turn out fine!īang on time, Alan appears in the doorway of the new Assault & Battery 2 live room, and seems surprisingly friendly and relaxed.

It was looking like we might not get an interview with Alan Moulder.