Not long ago, Mike Brown's business model at Lava Room Recording focused entirely on music. Clients such as Joe Walsh or Paramore would cut an album at the studio, then return the next year to do it ...

Raymond Quigg Lawrence was a creative light who could write clever advertising copy as well as play his mandolin or sing backup if a jingle needed to be recorded.

LIKE OTHER non-essential businesses, recording studios around the world have gone quiet during the pandemic. “This place is normally just buzzing with music out of every room,” says Viv Broughton, the ...