“Transparency and ease of use,” are just two of the things that record producer and songwriter and Paul O’Duffy loves about his iD22, the USB AD/DA interface and monitoring system from Audient. “I don’t want to hear it colouring the sound too much,” he says, explaining how he’s been using it to record lead vocals […]
If you haven’t yet heard of Ali Stone, it’s only a matter of time. A native of Colombia based in LA, she’s a talented producer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, musician and singer/songwriter with excellent taste in audio interfaces. She’s won a CDA award, made a remix for Disney’s Monsters University, became the youngest film composer with her original […]
Solo artist VC Pines has burst onto the music scene, releasing Vixen, his second single with Fierce Panda Records on 25th January. It was produced in a tiny, gear-packed studio located above an ancient, haunted coaching inn in St Albans, using (among other things) ASP880 mic preamps from Audient. ASP880: “It’s performed outstandingly and […]
Uppsala Estitiska Gymnasium took delivery of an ASP4816 desk towards the end of last year, which now forms the centrepiece of a brand new studio at the school. Catering to 16-19 year old students, the upper school has recently moved to a new location, giving rise to the opportunity to build a brand new studio […]
Born and bred Londoner, Sam Johnson followed his heart to New Zealand last year, upping sticks and taking his studio setup and over 20 years’ experience in the music business with him, ASP4816 console and all. Setting up Rhythm Ace Studio in a small township in New Plymouth, he’s swapped the pace and bustle of […]
Audient’s 8-channel mic preamp ASP800 has recently been added to Michael Erdmann’s private studio, Exclusive Sound Suite, a leading production studio for equestrian dressage freestyle music. Today, many of the world’s best dressage riders rely on productions and compositions by Michael Erdmann. Back in 1995, he and sound engineer Manni Struck revolutionised freestyle music, which […]
Musician, engineer and producer, Oliver Kenny chose a 36-channel ASP8024 Heritage Edition desk to be the centrepiece for an unusually styled studio he has built in a deconsecrated church. Hands-on every step of the way from choosing and bidding on the building at auction, spending months on the overall design, overseeing the acoustic setup and […]
Blur guitarist and solo artist Graham Coxon treasures his home studio, a reasonably sized space flooded with light located at the top of his north London home. “It was going to be my creative space,” he says to Audient. “It started off as just a table with an interface on it – and a computer.” […]
Independent producer, composer and musician, Shook has a new album out this month, which was created with the help of Audient’s iD22 audio interface and ASP880 eight-channel mic preamplifier. ‘Bicycle Ride’ is the follow-up to the 2014 ‘Spectrum’ album (from which the hugely successful track Milestones came, featured in the first episode of Netflix series, […]
“It doesn’t make any sense to have great mics or a powerful computer if you have a poor interface with sub-standard preamps and A/D converters. Every part of the signal path has to be pristine,” says Kevin Sones of Earsightmusic, who swears by his iD22 from Audient. “This is why I trust iD22 to be […]
