Belmont University is located in Nashville, so the need for quality music production is rather essential. Recently, its Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business installed two Solid State Logic ORIGIN 32-channel analogue mixing consoles in its historic Quonset Hut and Columbia Studio A on Nashville’s Music Row. Belmont previously installed two SSL ORIGIN consoles on its main campus and at Ocean Way Nashville Recording Studios, which the university also owns, at the beginning of 2022.
Nashville’s Music Row can trace its roots back to 1955, when the Bradley brothers, Owen and Harold, set up the first recording studio in the neighborhood that would very quickly become the heart of the country music business. Columbia Records acquired the brothers’ legendary Quonset Hut studio in 1962, constructing Studio A in a new building that also absorbed most of the hut, which was renamed Columbia Studio B. Mike Curb’s foundation purchased the complex in 2005, refurbishing Columbia Studio A and Studio B—the Quonset Hut—to serve as classrooms for Belmont University’s Audio Engineering Technology program.
