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Covered Bridge Recording breaks cover
Opened less than a year ago in downtown Nashville by studio manager and engineer Grace Ritter and her partners, Covered Bridge Recording was designed from the ground up around the Genelec 9.1.4 Smart Active Monitoring system that serves as the heart of the studio’s Dolby Atmos production environment.
Vietnam gets first SSL Origin
Music production company OnlyCproduction has installed the first Solid State Logic Origin analogue mixing console in Vietnam. The 32-channel desk is to be found in the Ho Chi Minh City studio of musician, singer and producer OnlyC.
Recording Hawaii’s whale song
Armed with Sennheiser HD 300 PROtect headphones, Sennheiser MKH 8020 mics and a bespoke 3D hydrophone array, nature sound recordist Thomas Rex Beverly recently visited Hawaii’s Big Island and French Polynesia in pursuit of high-definition, spatialised recordings of whales – the likes of which researchers had previously been unable to make.
Zimmer vs Williams
The recent Music of Zimmer vs Williams show at the Royal Albert Hall brought a spatial twist to the sound through use of a 64-channel TiMax SoundHub – bringing the ‘beyond stereo’ thinking FOH engineer Phil Wright had seen succeed at festivals and other events.
Upstairs at Ronnie’s
London’s Ronnie Scott’s Soho jazz club has opened Upstairs at Ronnie’s, built from the ground up to create the greatest small live music venue in the world. ‘We wanted a space where artists and audiences could feel even closer to the music, with every element of the design focused on sound quality, comfort and connection,’ says Technical Manager, Charlie Dale.