StudioStuff

Studio/Techy Stuff

Digital

It goes without saying, you’ve got to have Pro-Tools these days. It’s a personal choice, but currently Dave primarily uses his Pro-Tools system for interfacing between his preferred SSL Soundscape system and the outside world. Combining the two systems, compatibility is achieved with pretty much all commonly used recording systems.

Why SSL Soundscape? Because it’s hardware/DSP based it largely only uses it’s computer as a front end controller…the computer’s barely ticking over. The upshot of this is the system is extremely reliable, and crashes are almost unheard of. Compare/contrast with some well known Digital Audio Workstation systems…

Find out more about the SSL Soundscape system here.

Analogue

Yes, we still regularly use the classic analogue 2” 24 track format. Not so many studios still have their 2” machines these days, but we’ve kept ours, and of course it still sounds fantastic. Some people argue that it still sounds best.

Dave’s Newcastle based Face Musical Productions Studio achieves the best of both worlds, combining a formidable Soundscape SS32 32-track recording/editing system with the more traditional analogue 2" 24-track tape format, and boasts excellent microphones, superb Genelec tri-amped monitors and some cool vintage valve (tube) equipment. Oh, and a beautiful old Hammond C3 with Leslie 122R !

Find Dave on RecordProduction.com –

http://www.recordproduction.com/dave_maughan.htm

Dave’s MySpace –

http://www.myspace.com/davemaughanproducerengineer

davemaughan.co.uk