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Strongroom will push a profile as a music hub – the purpose for which it first gained a reputation many years ago. Danton Supple’s room is the first stage in this process. Strongroom 2 will also be vacated and the equipment relocated to AIR Post just down the road, so that “someone can move in for the longer term”. The building of two additional audio dubbing suites at the post facility is also on the schedule. Strongroom has taken on the
lease of an adjacent building so a party wall can be knocked through, extending the bar space by around a third. Access from Rivington Street is planned (“which gives us a little more presence”) in addition to the familiar Curtain Road tunnel approach. “Strongroom will be more of a hub – and AIR is benefiting too,” affirms Boote. A chart of Oscar-winning films he saw recently revealed that AIR had been involved in the soundtracks of nine of the top 20, he notes. The SSL and Neve rooms are busy, as is AIR Mastering: “Ray Staff is remastering stuff he first mastered 30 years ago! “AIR is a fantastic studio and
a viable business; it still has a future because of the unique services it offers,” Boote concludes. “And I’m happy with the way the business is going.”
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UNITED KINGDOM Eve SC407 monitors arrive in the UK By Erica Basnicki
NORTH LONDON-BASED music technology education supplier Academia has installed Eve Audio SC407 monitors at Northampton University – the first installation of the new range in the UK, taking place just two weeks after the monitors landed at Nova Distribution headquarters. The university’s Popular Music degree is headed by Gordon Okafor-Ross, who has spent the past month test- driving monitor speakers with his students.
The final monitor shootout
was between the Eve Audio SC407, Adam Audio S3H-X and Focal Twin 6.
Northampton University students are the first in the UK to use the SC407 monitors “After rotating the universal
mid/tweeter plate 90˚ from horizontal to vertical the Eve SC407 monitors really came together in our control room. The bass is tight, the mids are clear and the top end is very detailed. The Eves
overall feel more forensic and mixes developed on them sound great on other systems,” said Okafor-Ross. “In a university environment,
unlike a commercial studio, you must be prepared for students to make mistakes and the classic is
UNITED STATES
UNIVERSAL MASTERINGStudios in Los Angeles has replaced its stock of mastering and production systems with SADiE Series 6 workstations. In total, three mastering rooms and four production rooms have been equipped with the new SADiE 6 systems, each running native but in a SADiE blue box. Universal Mastering Studios has also installed four Prism Sound Lyra 2 audio interfaces in its production rooms
and added a Prism Sound multichannel modular ADA-8XR A-D/D-A converter in each of its three mastering studios. The studio has also added the mastering version of Manley Massive Passive EQ and a Crane Song Avocett monitor controller.
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switching on phantom power with a microphone channel open. I was really worried about the costs of regularly replacing fragile AMT drivers, however the Eves have a DSP protection circuit built into the input stage rather than limiting the amplifiers on other types of loudspeaker, they also helpfully flash to warn when you are close to overloading the speakers, which makes my heart beat a little more comfortably when handing the studio over to unsupervised students. Couple this with the bass extension and the uncompromising sound quality and we’ve found our perfect midfield monitors.”
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