The Also-Rans at The Fort between 2000 to 2002

In 1998 Fort Apache moved from Roxbury to North Cambridge where and shared space in the former Rounder Records warehouse. During this time the Fort was recording some of the most influential and successful rock records of the time. With this success they were able to open 2nd studio in North Cambridge. This new and larger studio was called the B Room and was located across Mass Ave.  The B Room had the exact same control room dimensions but a much larger live room with a stage in the performance space.  As you may have guessed, this space is now The Bridge Sound and Stage.

This month, Tape Op magazine interview producer Matt Bayles about his work in Nashville, Seattle and Boston. In the article he mentions working in the B room on the ICIS album, Oceanic. His description of the space and the acoustics were spot on. It was a great surprise read about our studio in the only recording magazine I subscribe too.

The Fort of 2002 is now The Bridge

Also this month, Brad from Bradley’s Almanac was kind enough to share these photos of The Also-Rans mixing an EP in the Fort’s B room. You can see just how much things have changed but stayed the same too!

We have all new gear these days so everything works and sounds great! But you may  wonder happened to that old console and tape machine? Some of it is in AZ at Flying Blanket.