With three other leading record producers, Ron Richards, John Burgess and Peter Sullivan, George Martin established Associated Independent Recordings and opened AIR Studios in central London in 1970. Its sister studio, AIR Montserrat, was opened in 1979, and for ten years hosted many of the biggest names in rock and pop. Soon after AIR Montserrat was hit by a hurricane and closed, Sir George found an empty church in Hampstead, north London, and created AIR Studios Lyndhurst. Today, Air Studios effects racks are like a history of studio effects including some rare pieces like the Publison Infernal Machine, the Sony DRE-2000 digital reverb and even the Eventide H910.
