Edward Veale
Edward Veale
The pioneer of Europe’s first home recording studio, Eddie Veale began his career in 1960 working on noise control in passenger aircraft for De Havilland. In 1969, as a project engineer at independent London studio Advision, he created the first 24-track recording studio this side of the Atlantic. He was introduced to John Lennon and his career as an acoustic consultant and studio designer took off. Eddie designed and built Europe’s first home recording studio at Lennon’s Berkshire home in the early 1970s, which was used to record the iconic ‘Imagine’ album. Commissions for private home studios from George Harrison, Gus Dudgeon, Eric Clapton, Mike Oldfield and many other leading musicians, swiftly followed, taking studio recording into a new and important dimension. Following on from his prolific studio projects, Eddie expanded into local radio as commercial stations rapidly appeared on the scene. In 1976 he pioneered the first ‘presenter driven’ radio station for Beacon Radio, a concept that is still used today to give the presenters greater responsibility and flexibility when broadcasting. He then turned his skills to tv studios and can take responsibility for the design of many of the UK’s leading broadcast studios including, Carlton TV, Capital Radio, Virgin, Channel 4, Guardian Media Group. Latterly, Eddie has been involved in creating studios for educational purposes, siting them in colleges and universities around the country to help train the next generation of sound engineers and technicians. More recently he has designed sound studios for Frontier Developments, Playfish and EA Games. With his expertise in designing and creating studios for recording, broadcast, games and post production, Eddie’s influence stretches around the world and besides his creative commitments he finds time to guest lecture to young, upcoming sound technicians.
