Vienna, Austria (May 10, 2023)—MG-Sound Studios in Vienna, Austria, celebrated its thirty fifth anniversary this 12 months with the set up of an SSL Duality Fuse SuperAnalogue 48-channel mixing console, the most recent in an extended line of the producer’s consoles on the studio.
The new Duality went into operation in January 2023 on the multi-room music recording, movie and postproduction facility, which was initially established in a band’s basement rehearsal room in 1988. The new Duality changed an SSL 9000K desk that had been in MG-Sound’s Control A, the flagship studio within the seven-room facility, for simply over 20 years.
MG-Sound put in its first SSL, a 4000 G+, in 1995, adopted by a 9000J in late ’97, a 9000K in 2002 and an Axiom MT within the composer’s room in 2000. The new Duality was bought by way of Mario Reithofer at TSAMM Audio, SSL’s distribution companion in Austria.
Over the years, the Rolling Stones, U2, Lady Gaga, Céline Dion, Whitney Houston, Bon Jovi and Pearl Jam have labored on the facility. Opera stars from Placido Domingo and José Carreras to Anna Netrebko and, most just lately, Jonas Kaufmann have additionally recorded at MG-Sound.
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One of the explanations for the improve to a more recent SSL console was that it had turn into more and more troublesome to keep up the getting older 9000K, based on facility co-owner Martin Böhm. “What actually acquired us into gear was the exploding power prices right here in Austria and Germany,” he says. “Since final 12 months, power costs have elevated considerably right here in Europe.”
Duality’s newest technology know-how is reportedly far more power environment friendly than that of earlier desks. “Energy saving was actually an element, as a result of we’re not solely saving with the power operating on the Duality, but additionally with the cooling, as a result of it generates so much much less warmth,” he says.
“It was a logical alternative,” Böhm says, “as a result of we might have our typical automation, dynamics and EQs that we love a lot, and in addition benefit from the distant management of Pro Tools on the Duality. It’s the trendy strategy as a result of now we do nearly all the pieces in Pro Tools. It’s extraordinarily highly effective, with delta management; it really works nice, and it’s very properly thought out.”
