Since its founding in 1979, the aim of Florida’s Full Sail University has been to prepare students for the technology they are likely to encounter when finding employment. Full Sail’s Recording Arts Program recently refreshed its own audio technology, installing ten Solid State Logic Origin 32-channel analogue inline studio consoles and 11 SSL BiG SiX compact mixer/interfaces in a variety of teaching spaces to better reflect today’s music production workflows. 

‘They learn how to record in those rooms, working as a group of six students with one instructor,’ says Director of Advanced Session Recording, Darren Schneider. ‘The first reports we got back after installing the Origins was that the students were learning them faster than the previous consoles in those rooms.’

Located in the the Flatiron district of New York City, boutique audio post house Bronx Audio Post – known as Mr Bronx since its inception in 2011 under founder and senior mixer David Wolfe – has pursued an alternative approach to audio post in the Big Apple. Recently, Mr Bronx has made Genelec its studio monitor of choice.

Offering a comprehensive suite of services encompassing mixing, sound design, ADR, voiceover recording and casting, Mr Bronx has become a go-to destination for audio. Work includes notable campaigns for Adidas, Coca-Cola, American Express, LG, Sephora, Kia and the ACLU. Additionally, the studio has contributed to all of Beyoncé’s musical films since Lemonade in 2016.

Since her debut in 1996, Mandopop star aMEI has sold more than 50m records, releasing hit after hit in styles spanning love songs to energetic rock. Her ASMR World Tour brought a stunning audiovisual spectacle to fans in cities across Asia, Europe and the US. As the tour continues into 2024, aMEI has chosen a Sennheiser MM 445 capsule and Digital 6000 as her mic system of choice.

The ASMR World Tour places high demands on the performance of the audio equipment, and choosing the best microphone was an important consideration. aMEI has been a long-time Sennheiser user – from her previous 5000 series analogue system to the current Digital 6000, which she adopted five years ago.

After a two-year spell away from the limelight, UK DJ and producer Roni Size is back in his Bristol studio making music with a newly installed PMC BB6 XBD-A monitor system.

‘I had this room with these incredible speakers, and I couldn’t just leave them there,’ he says. ‘My whole studio was built around them because they were the monitors I’ve always wanted, ever since I first heard them at Metropolis Studios in London. Having a pair of my own was my life goal and now I’ve got them my life goal has changed to making great music with them.’

Now a three-piece, Take That’s This Life tour is visiting UK arenas and stadia with audio design, equipment delivery and crew from hire company Skan, led by Tour Director Chris Vaughan and Production Manager Wez Wearing.

‘I must get the show to sound as close to the records possible – it’s what the fans expect,’ says FOH engineer, Gary Bradshaw. ‘With the live band, the arrangements are different, but the overall sound needs to be similar. Mike Stevens, our Musical Director, is very good at arranging the music, and the musicians are brilliant.’

Bradshaw has used DiGiCo desks since they came to market, this time an SD7 Quantum.