Little Mountain Sound Studios


Little Mountain Sound Studios is a music recording facility located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. During the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, it was the most successful recording studio in Western Canada and was the home for many years to producers Bruce Fairbairn and Bob Rock. Little Mountain recorded albums by Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, AC/DC, Metallica, Bryan Adams, Mötley Crüe, David Lee Roth, Loverboy, and the Cult among many others. In the mid 1990s Little Mountain would become part of Vancouver Studios; the facility would eventually evolve into Greenhouse Studios and would record albums by Nickelback, k.d. lang, Default, and Queensrÿche.

History

Little Mountain Sound Studios was started in 1972 as a 50/50 partnership between Western Broadcasting and Griffiths, Gibson Productions.
Bob Brooks was hired to manage Little Mountain. Brooks was an independent producer working out of an office at CKWX after having left Homer Street Studios. In 1977, Western Broadcasting bought out GGP to become sole owner. In 1982, Western Broadcasting sold the studio to Bob Brooks. Brooks owned Little Mountain until 1992.
Bruce Fairbairn started recording at Little Mountain Sound Studios with Prism, a band in which he played trumpet. Fairbairn would go on to do the bulk of his work there as an independent producer. Bob Rock was a house engineer at Little Mountain, and engineered many albums for Fairbairn before becoming a producer himself.
Brooks turned over the running of the studio to a manager in the late 1980s. Brooks then replaced the manager with Bruce Levens.
Levens purchased Little Mountain after managing for six months.
Little Mountain relocated to Burnaby after closing in Vancouver at the end of 1993. For the next decade, Little Mountain was an equipment and services company to various producers, engineers, studios, and bands. Bruce Leven and his wife continued to provide sound recording services through Greenhouse Studios.
Little Mountain moved back to Vancouver in 2008. The company continues to provide production space to music creators and has been in business for more than 45 years.

Clients

The studio itself can be seen and figures prominently in the Aerosmith DVD The Making of Pump