![]() ![]() Tholet became a good friend of the studios and brought a significant body of his Ad Agency - Matthewman, Banks and Tholet's advertising work to it in the following years, as well as numerous privately produced songs, albums and film tracks. Tholet's album Songs of Love and War was a chronicle of his early life. ![]() The new studio's first recordings were for the folk singer and advertising Creative Director Clem Tholet. This left Roskilly alone in the studio to carry on the business as he fortunately had a 5 year exemption from callup, having only recently arrived in the country from the UK. ![]() These were difficult times personally, as Martin Norris had to fulfill his army call-up duties every 6 weeks. Studio 1 was a comparatively large studio, comprising 6m x 6m control rooms and 12m x 8m live room. Mounting pressure for even more studio time by 1979 resulted in the company leasing 380 sq m on the top floor of Park House, Park Street and the business moved into a self-built but purpose-built professional studio premises. Neil Thain had pulled out fairly early on, moving to Johannesburg and as the volume of advertising work increased, the number of hours available in the evenings soon became insufficient. After the Blackberry day-job, advertising work was handled late into the evenings. Jingle productions were not new to Rhodesia, but there was a need for more complex multi-tracked productions, and Martin & Steve were quick to respond. Blackberry offered the use of their largest studio for a small rental and so the Shed equipment was set up there and the company started making advertising jingles, children's story records, and a few private band recordings. This outfit learned its trade by making a series of live recordings at various music venues around Salisbury, the capital City, but soon found that the uniqueness of the mobile caravan, became more of a restriction than an advantage and a proper studio was seen as essential for progress.īoth Norris and Roskilly were, by now, working full time for Blackberry Productions, a young radio and tv production facility. ![]() Initially housed in a converted caravan, the first studio was based on a half inch 8 track Itam 805 tape recorder and series 2 Soundcraft 12:4:2 mixer, mastering onto a Revox A77 Reel to Reel tape recorder. ![]()
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