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February 2014 l 21
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Recording and
New unique mobile studio takes to theFrench roads but has Europe in its sights. Guillaume Schouker reports
GW STUDIO, a new and unique mobile recording studio, hit the French roads late last year.
Built within a touring coach, GW
(for ‘Guess What’) Studiois probably the country’s first itinerant recording and mixing facility (with a live room and control room, as opposed to professional OB trucks such as Le Voyageur V1).
mix bus
Dorat explains: “Our structure’s key point is that, contrary to mobile facilities, we’re a full recording studio: that is to say our vehicle is not only composed of a control room to record wherever and our intention is not to go and record at someone’s place in a room that is not necessarily acoustically treated.” A Tascam DM-4800 console with a MU-1000 24-channel meter bridge and
Band on the roof: Kill Franklin take a ride with GW Studio
quotation requests from Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. We are considering a European tour with some French bands.” “Honestly, what drove usto create this studio is our passion,” adds Chauffaille.“We staked all because we were convinced our structure meets needs that are different from regular
recording studios. The economic crisis is a reality indeed but, if no one tacklesit head on, who will offer artists with low budgets a solutionto record?” First onboard at GW in 2014 will be
French act Kill Franklin, recording their debut album.
www.gwstudio.fr
Thomas Dorat (left) and Johan Chauffaille: “Brainwave” GW is the creation of Johan Chauffaille
(president) and Thomas Dorat (managing director), both not yet 24 years old. Chauffaille reveals, “We always had the idea of creating [and] managing our own studio for a long time, but it’s while we were enjoying a barbecue party – I remember, on 29 July 2011! – discussing with friends that we had the brainwave to create one in a touring coach. This way, the project seemed much easier to make profitable straight away.” GW Studio is housed inside a 12m-long, 3.8m-tall Bova Futura coach. It includes a separate control room, an isolated recording area, plus a small kitchen and toilet amenities, all – literally – ready to roll.
IF-FW audio interface is the centrepiece of the control room. An Apple iMac 27- inch 3.2GHz 16GB RAM runs Avid ProTools 10 and plug-ins. Monitoring is through apair of Focal Chorus 816V as main and Yamaha HS-7 as secondaries. “We will soon be equipped with Focal Solo 6 BE speakers,” says Chauffaille. A range of mics from Shure, Sennheiser, Neumann (TLM 103 and U87), Audio-Technica and AKG are available, as are a number of musical instruments. GW will rent in outboard gear on request. Dorat says, “Even if, at the very beginning of the project,we were aiming at the French market only, we recently had
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