Located in West Midtown, 4U Recording Atlanta recording studio is owned by Tony Alexander and songwriter and producer David Porter. The facility recently completed an extensive renovation intended to improve communication and networking between its various studio spaces. The installation of an Allen & Heath SQ-6 console in 4U’s Studio A has opened up the room to more possibilities.

‘We wanted to make things more up to date, and incorporate Dante,’ says Studio Manager Vohn Keith Jr.

‘We wanted something that would work for live performance, but also had recording and Dante capabilities,’ explains Facilities Manager, Reo Harris. ‘We also liked that it had a small footprint, and we can easily expand our I/O using a digital stagebox.’

The 4U team added a DX168 expander for I/O at the stage, which runs back to the SQ-6 via a Cat6 digital snake. Studio A can now capture multitrack recordings of live performances and rehearsals via Dante. ‘It really opened up our possibilities,’ Harris notes. ‘With all the individual tracks we can access and feed to our other studio spaces.’

Harris had never used an SQ before they purchased one for Studio A, but was able to quickly pick up on the workflow: ‘I love the touch screen capability, and being able to patch in local I/O or networked input sources quickly,’ he says. ‘I also really enjoy working with the reverb and delay plugins built-in, it’s so easy to route to them – the whole console is very intuitive.’

The event spaces at 4U are host to a diversity of performances ‘Sometimes it’s big artists preparing and rehearsing for tours,’ Keith says. ‘But we’re open to everyone that has that creative sense and is looking to find their sound. Our goal is to make our clients reassured and confident in all our studio spaces.’

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