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Live/Touring Sound – After Sales Support DIGICO
MARK SAUNDERS (Sennheiser)
As well as being on hand during the summer festivals, Mark Saunders (left) from Sennheiser’s artist relations team supports many acts, from those who are up and coming, on their first proper tours, through to arena and stadium headliners. As well as working on individual engineer’s projects, he has also been involved in many major ‘one off’ events over the years, including Live 8, Live Earth, a variety of Children In Need concerts, Help For Heroes and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee concert, working alongside major league audio hire companies that use Sennheiser equipment on a regular basis. Saunders received two additional testimonials to support his entry.
DiGiCo’s commitment to global support is part of its standard sales package. With a trained distribution channel around the world on hand to support local and international production, DiGiCo invests a substantial amount of time travelling around the world to connect with our customers. The company’s informal motto is, ‘DiGiCo never sleeps and never takes a holiday, we just relocate’. “As a result, our customers are very loyal to the brand and we are loyal to them,” says the company.
SOUNDCRAFT
“Since we purchased our Vi6,” writes a veteran sound engineer, “they’ve always been very quick to respond to any queries we’ve had; and recently we dry-hired the console out and the stage box went down – I was on another show in Denmark, so my boss made the call, got put straight through to the right person, and within just over an hour, they’d got another stage box straight out of their demo room down in Potters Bar down to the venue in Essex. That’s what I call service.”
MIDAS
“When my desk caught a pint of beer several years ago it was welcomed back to Midas, renovated, repaired and even improved,” writes a sound engineering professional. “This was a desk that was over 20 years old and parts were still in stock and the repair was made. To still be supporting a desk that old is a great tribute to the company. I have also had great support on brand new products. I have been able to call up service and get advice and the advice I was given was always spot on, practical and well explained.”
Studio – Engineer of the Year
SIMON RHODES Abbey Road
Rhodes recorded and mixed Tom Newman’s score to Skyfall at Abbey Road Studios. This involved taking Tom’s sketches and recording dozens of “rhythmic, melodic and exotic layers” over the top to create the incredible textures of excitement and colour demanded by Sam Mendes. The orchestra was the last element and Rhodes was tasked to mix it into 31 stems, running over three Pro Tools systems.
MARK WINTERBURN Edge Recording Studios
“If there was a young engineer/producer deserving of this award it would be Mark Winterburn. A natural, he has proved in a short space of time, he was born to do this.” So says John Delf, sound engineer and owner of Edge Recording Studios in Cheshire. In six months Winterburn went from tea-boy to key engineer/mixer on Plan B’s Number 1, Mercury Prize, MOBO and BRIT nominated album Ill Manors. Since then he has worked with New Order, Danny O’Donoghue (The Script) and many others including Roller Trio, also nominated for the Mercury Prize last year.
Studio –Recording Production of the Year
ANDRE JACQUEMIN For A Liar’s Autobiography
“After over 40 years in this industry as producer, sound designer, sound
supervisor I thought I might as well see if I am eligible for an entry in your awards…” Jacquemin worked on all the Monty Python projects over these 40 years and recently produced sound for the latest Liar’s Autobiography by Graham Chapman.
DAVID WRENCH For Sunless ‘97 Aurora EP
Three times BBC award-winning producer David Wrench began his eclectic musical career in 1989 with group Nid Madagascar, with whom he produced the “First Welsh Language Acid House Record”. Since, David has penned four studio albums to date, while producing albums for Bear In Heaven, Alessi’s Ark, Race Horses, as well as mixing for Caribou, Bat For Lashes, Everything Everything and most recently the Sunless ’97 Aurora EP.
BEN DREW, ERIC APPAPOULAY AND AL SHUX For Playing With Fire (single)
Drew (AKA Plan B), Appapoulay and Shux were all integral to the production and sound of the superb Plan B Ill Manors album, including the single Playing With Fire. Ill Manors debuted at number one on the UK Album Charts and received positive reviews by critics. The album was nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize. Playing with Fire was released as the fourth single from the album, on 3 December 2012. The track features vocals from producer and vocalist Labrinth.
MARK RONSON For Bruno Mars Unorthobox Jukebox (album)
The album’s lead single, Locked Out of Heaven, was a commercial and critical success, topping the US Billboard Hot 100 chart for six consecutive weeks and charting inside the top 10 in more than 20 countries across the world.
ALALAL (Al O’Connell)
Alalal’s long- standing collaborations with Mark Ronson, Paul Epworth and Erol Alkan has seen him credited on some of the most successful releases of the past decade. With his work on Rufus Wrainwright’s Out Of The Game and Duran Duran’s All You Need Is Now, production and remixes for Klaxons, Plan B and Metronomy, Alalal is fast becoming one of the most exciting and fresh producers/engineers of his generation. 2013 has already seen him win Engineer Of The Year at the MPG awards.
Studio sponsored by TOBY ALINGTON
Toby’s 30 years’ experience in live music soundtracks is second to none. He has recorded many of the world’s finest performers in every corner of the globe. He has been responsible for the BRIT Awards soundtrack for the last 19 years, the annual MTV Europe Music Awards for 12 years, and the Classical BRIT Awards since its inception in 2000. Since September 2012, he has been responsible for the live and/or post-produced soundtracks of the following releases: Classic BRIT Awards, TV; Emeli Sandé, Live at the Royal Albert Hall, DVD/TV/CD; James Bond 50th Anniversary Concert, Royal Festival Hall, TV.
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