24 l May 2013
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Bruno Mercère has built a mixing facility outside the Paris city limits where there is a lot more space for a lot less euro – and ADAM Audio is his monitor of choice. Dave Robinsonfigures it out
TRAVEL DIRECTLYnorth- west out of the chaos of central Paris to the suburb of Colombes and you will find the sanctuary of chic that is Studio Sledge. Located in a disarmingly, deceptively large factory building (it used to be a printing works), Sledge is the project of Bruno Mercère, a mix engineer/producer who cut his teeth at France’s famous Studio Omega in Suresnes. Over the past three years,
Mercère and his small team have
created a stylish, à la mode facility catering for every aspect of audio mixing for cinema and TV. Sledge’s main offering is the three mixing rooms: one for cinema, one for television, and one for music. This way, for instance, Mercère can create his dramatic surround mix for a movie audience, then transfer to the smaller auditorium for the TV mix. “The right thing is to do the right things in the right place,” he says. “The client
can pay the right price, and everybody is happy with that.” A recurring feature of all the
rooms, and the three edit suites, are ADAM Audio monitors. “I use them on all my projects: music, cinema, TV – I’m always happy with them because what I hear on my ADAM monitors is the truth,” volunteers the owner. Sledge was designed by acclaimed French acoustician Christian Malcurt. Mercère says he wanted the same designer as director Luc Besson. “If you use Malcurt you are sure of the result.” What the building’s former resident required for his printing presses – high ceilings, solid floors, natural light and plenty of room – were gifts to
Mercère and Malcurt, who have used them to their advantage and created a sophisticated and attractive set of rooms. It’s all about mixing sound at
Sledge, for the French-language audience. No video post production, no music tracking,
no dubbing or voice-over work: du mixage seulement. While not offering a ‘picture and sound’ package can be a little difficult, says technical manager Maria Luisa, she suggests Sledge takes a more “handcrafted, human approach. That’s why we are not
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