CTS Studios

Defunct UK recording/mixing (and, from 1982, mastering) studios based in London, England, UK; name derived from parent company Cine-Tele Sound Studios Ltd.
For the Canadian mastering studio, please use CTS Mastering (2).
Also known as:
· C.T.S.
· C.T.S. Studios
· C.T.S. Studios, England
· C-T-S Studios
· CTS
· CTS-Lansdowne
· CTS Lansdowne
· CTS Limited
· CTS Recording Studios
· C.T.S. Ltd., Wembley
· CTS Studios Wembley
· CTS Music Centre
· Wembley Music Center London
· Wembley Studios, London, UK
· Wembley Sound Studios

Inaugurated in 1956 (incorporated 6 June 1958) by a consortium that included Peter Kay (3) and John Elliott. Originally located at 49-53 Kensington Gardens Square in London's Bayswater district. It was very famous for recording movie and TV scores at first but was later also used for other recordings.
Toward the end of 1972, studio management were informed that a property development company had acquired the Bayswater building and a search was immediately begun for suitable new premises. (As it turned out, the supposedly imminent demolition of the original CTS location in Kensington Gardens never happened. The Space was taken over by Lansdowne Studios acquired CTS Wembley in February 1987 and from now on CTS traded as CTS Lansdowne.
On 24 June 2000 the complex closed having been sold by Kerridge to make way for the redevelopment of Wembley Stadium and its surrounding area. The CTS team, including engineer Peter Fielder.
However, on 24 May 2010 CTS Lansdowne closed down (the company CTS - Lansdowne Ltd. was dissolved on 10 July 2012).

Records cut here are identifiable by an etched "CTS" or "MC" (alone or combined with "Wembley" or "Music Centre" in the runouts).
Please, use Lacquer Cut At when crediting the studio. For records cut before May 1982, please use The Music Centre, Wembley.

If runout etchings (between May 1982 and mid-1988) include '420W', please use:
Lacquer Cut At: CTS Studios
Pressed By: CTS Studios (1956-1972)
Relocation to John Timms