One of Spain’s largest recording studios, has installed Spain’s largest Neve Genesys G80 mixing console.

With the help of CSS Audiovisual Technology, who assisted with the installation and set-up of the console, Medusa Estudio BCN has made the Genesys G80 and a Pro Tools HDX recording system the heart of an impressive facility – a 400-sq-m recording complex in a quiet area of the old district of Sants in Barcelona. It boasts two recording rooms, a 50-sq-m control room, chill-out area, machine room and Red Studio, the personal recording and production space used by musician, composer, singer-songwriter and producer, Manu Guix – who is one of the studio’s founders, along with Roger Rodes.

The facility features Genelec main and close-field monitoring, an extensive selection of outboard and a well stocked mic cabinet. A Studer A80 24-track tape machine will also be added to the recording options Each room is interconnected, allowing multiple recording options, with CCTV system providing visual communication between each room, the main control room and Red Studio.

As well as being the largest in Spain, the Genesys G80 console is one of the largest in Europe. ‘Our Genesys G80 has marked a “before” and “after” in Medusa Studio BCN,’ Guix says. ‘Clarity, presence, character and pure analogue sound – we could not be happier.’