Polar Studios

The studio was formed by ABBA musicians Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson and the band's manager Stig Anderson, owner of the Polar Music recording label.

The studio was used to record the last three ABBA albums, Voulez-Vous, Super Trouper and The Visitors, as well as their two non-LP singles "The Day Before You Came" and "Under Attack".

[citation needed] The massive edifice, built around 1930, owed its name to a large indoor public bath (closed in the mid-1950s) and several other sports facilities which had been housed upstairs over the years.

[2] Artists such as Big Country, the Ramones, Rammstein, Roxy Music, Genesis, Adam Ant, Backstreet Boys, Beastie Boys, Belinda Carlisle, Burt Bacharach, Embracingfranki (Franki), Celine Dion, Roxette, Terra Firma, Entombed, The Hellacopters, Joan Armatrading, Agnetha Fältskog and many major Swedish artists worked at Polar Studios.

The centrepiece of the studio was a 40-channel Harrison 32 Series mixing console, which was modified by technician Leif Mases to give it a unique sound that in some respects resembled a Neve desk.

In 2010, ABBA The Museum premiered an exhibit that attempted to recreate the band's Polar Studios setup.

[8] Polar's recording facility consisted of two different sections, one that utilized analog tape machines and one that implemented the cutting-edge digital equipment of the day.