Based in Sanford, North Carolina, producer John Davenport has commissioned a 32-channel API Legacy Plus Console with Vision automation in his new studio. Due to open later in 2013, the studio’s design is being overseen by Wes Lachot Design.
Davenport spent the 1980s as a recording engineer at the Hit Factory in New York, where he worked with the likes of the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen. He received Platinum Album awards for Little Steven’s Sun City as chief engineer. Having grown up in Sanford, his passion for music soon took him to New York, where he learned the recording business from the ground up. When he began in the late 1970s at Secret Sound Studio, he learned the craft from some of the best engineers and producers of the time.
Now he is returning to both geographical and audio roots with his company, JD Production: ‘After three decades of working at professional and makeshift studios, I finally have the opportunity of building my own dream studio,’ he says. ‘It didn’t take long to select my choice of console. API, the sound and workmanship, is like no other. Thank you, Dan Zimbelman [API], Wes Lachot Design and the craftsmen at API making my dream possible.’
Davenport’s new studio will enable him to develop artists and produce films. It is being built from the ground up as a 1,300-sq-ft space, designed by Wes Lachot of Wes Lachot Design: ‘I can say that I recommend API consoles to my clients because they represent the very best in analogue design and sound quality and always makes the room sound the best,’ Lachot says. ‘Very best sounding rooms are nothing without the best sounding gear.’
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