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Lectrosonics wireless technology was employed by Bystrouška Sound Studios to capture engine sounds for animated children’s TV show Ctyrlísteklast month. A pair of Lectrosonics HM plug- on transmitters, a miniature beltpack transmitter, a VR Field modular receiver system stocked with VRT receiver modules and an ALP620 antenna were among the inventory of kit used to record an old Skoda as it was driven around a military airfield in Prague.
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Manchester-based creative hub Quenched Music will release a music compilation on 3 May in support of Xpress, part of the anti- suicide charity CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) initiative. CALM promotes the benefits of artistic expression to tackle what is reported to be the biggest killer of young men in the UK. Bands featured on the album include The Strokes, The Libertines and Reverend and The Makers. All proceeds will go directly to the charity and a one-off newspaper will be published alongside the project.
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As part of an undergraduate open day, Buckinghamshire New University and education partner Sennheiser UKheld a panel debate featuring top music industry specialists. Guests included producers Sean Ôramp- tonõ Cranny (Rampton), Chuck Knowledge, FOH engineer Chris McCarron and Sennheiser’s Phil Cummings. The presentation provided an opportunity for prospective students to gain an idea of the industry links offered through courses at the university.
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Aphex has appointed MSL Professional as its new distributor for the UK and Ireland. Aphex technologies include Aural Exciter, Big Bottom and Compeller-based products
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www.mslprofessional.co.uk Let the sun shine
The fine Spanish weather may fuel a whole new group of tourists as music producer Marc Molas plans to harness the power of the sun to run Barcelona’s newest recording facility, writes Erica Basnicki
WORK IS underway in Barcelona to create an international recording facility, Estudis El Rusc, the likes of which the city hasn’t seen in some time. Leading the project is music producer and director of El Tostadero studios, Marc Molas, who has grand plans for the new space. “El Tostadero was never designed to be an international studio facility, it just happened that way and we’ve been really lucky,” says Molas of the studios’ international clientele, which includes British rockers Placebo. “We started to realise that there’s space in Barcelona – a business space – for a studio that can actually receive international artists, which was a gap that wasn’t filled for quite a while.” Design is of the utmost importance for the new studio, says Molas, who took inspiration from France’s La Fabrique residential recording studios, managed by the Miloco Studios Group since October 2012. Molas is working closely (very closely!) with architect Tomo Takeda – his wife – as well as acoustician Pau Checa and Barcelona-based installers Acustica Integral to create a 800sqm room that is “really, really impressive.” Gear-wise Molas is currently trying to decide between an SSL
Marc Molas plans to upgrade his existing El Tostadero studio (here) to something internationally recognised
AWS 948 or an AMS Neve Genesys desk to complement the vast collection of analogue outboard gear going into Estudis El Rusc. “We really like recording in
the way it used to be done in the ’70s,” says Molas. “But we can’t avoid the fact that we’re past 2010. We’re trying to take as much as we can from both worlds.” Perhaps the most modern
feature of the studio will be its power supply: 100% solar energy. “One of the big, big problems
recording studios have in Barcelona is the quality of the electricity – it’s very noisy,” says Molas. “You have to go through several phases of cleaning, which is always a bit problematic and you always end up having some quirks that you have to fix up later, and this is something
I absolutely wanted to avoid.”
Finding
industrial-grade clean electricity within the city proved impossible, so Molas took to the internet to search for an alternative solution. That’s when he stumbled upon the website for London-based recording and rehearsal facility The Premises Studios, whose Studio A is also 100% solar powered. “I thought wow, if these guys can make it work there, we can make it work here. I thought that
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Marc Molas: “There’s space in Barcelona”
was very impressive – and bold!” quips Molas. PSNEurope will catch up with Molas as Estudis El Rusc nears completion later in the year. n
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