INDUSTRY NEWS RECORDING Heard Around Town
In a new monthly column we run through some of the latest happenings from studios around the world. Want your studio featured? Send your news to
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It’s been a busy start to the year at London’s Snap Studios with clients including Rich Cooper producing and mixing Lucy Rose’s new album, Jerry Boys producing tracks with Boris Grebenschikov, and Twilight Circus mixing with Arcade Fire, Jimmy Somerville, and producer Andy Green.
On the equipment front, Marco Pasquariello, studio manager, said: “We’ve got a lovely new (old) VF14 Telefunken U47 – as once used to record the great Miles Davis, a BBC/Marconi AXBT 1940’s ribbon mic, original Mellotron, Yamaha CS80, and a pair of original Decca limiters. Tere’s also a beautiful Studer A827 multi-track tape recorder with 24 or 16 track heads – a gem!” “Te most exciting session I’ve had recently has been one with the Swedish progressive rock band Te Flower Kings,” reported Sweden-based Fenix Recording owner/producer Lars Hallback.
“Tey are extremely talented musicians and they rented the studio for nine days without any pre-written material bar a few ‘sketches’. And when they were finished they had enough recorded material to release a double CD. “We added the B&W 800 monitors, some new instruments, the Tama Japanese handmade Star kit, and changed our Grand Piano to the new Yamaha C7x, with Disklavier so we can, for example, record fusion or jazz bands when everyone is in the same room without leakage.” Te score to Respawn Entertainment’s Titanfall was composed by Stephen Barton and recorded by Abbey Road’s Jonathan Allen in Studio One and Studio Two. In the game players choose between two factions; this was reflected in the recording process, as Barton explains: “Studio One lent its warmth, richness and larger-than-life sound to the music for the Interstellar Mining Corporation, and the unmistakable clarity and depth of Studio Two brings a grittier, organic texture to the Militia sound.” Jimi Wheelwright is now looking after the recording studios at Brighton Electric and reports: “We had Te Cure in the studio in preparation for their Teenage Cancer Trust show at the Royal Albert Hall and over the last month we have had some other fantastic clients – Royal Blood, Te Acid, and Marika Hackman to name a few.” “Gear-wise, our engineers trialled a couple of new Shoeps V4 microphones recently, which sounded very nice. We have also restored our 3314a desk compressors and re-valved our LA2A, other than that we are rocking the usual gear.” Eastlake Audio MD David Hawkins reported: “Te two recent projects which have kept us busy were in the first case, helping Andreas Georgallis the Cypriot musician and songwriter move his formerly Cyprus-based recording and dubbing complex City Studios to a new Athens location which retains the same City Studios trading name. “Eastlake has completed designs for an independent FM radio station and music recording facility in one of the (few) Gulf states that the studio designer and constructor has – until now – not yet worked in. Construction is planned to commence in late May for inauguration in late August.”
www.audiomedia.com May 2014 11
Develop Conference Announces Audio Track EVENT
Te Develop conference returns to Brighton on 8-10 July, providing a forum for the exposition and discussion of all matters relating to the development of videogames – from creative and technical issues through to business affairs; more than 1,600 developers are expected to attend.
Featuring key industry figures, Develop stages dozens of conference sessions via a series of themed ‘tracks’ including the one-day audio track on 10 July, which will appeal to anyone interested in the music, sound, dialogue and audio technology of videogames. Hosted by regular Audio Media contributor and Bafta awards chair John Broomhall, this year’s audio offering will cover a wide range of content from console game production and indie game development to mobile/tablet audio.
Sessions include ‘Tearaway: Penny Drops and Paper Cuts’, ‘Total Immersion: Music and Sound in Te Chinese Room’, and ‘AAA Audio Attitude for Tablet and Mobile’. Event director, Andy Lane, told Audio
Media: “Te sound and music components of today’s videogames are a vitally important part of the entertainment experience. Our delegates can expect to sit back and absorb the collective wisdom of a diverse range of top game audio talent once again this year – as well as enjoy networking with the industry at large, right beside the seaside in buzzing Brighton.”
www.developconference.com
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