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Secret Hand Upgrades for Flexibility

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Secret Hand Studios, used by clients like Devo, Salesforce.com, Netflix and more, has updated recently.
Secret Hand Studios, utilized by shoppers like Devo, Salesforce.com, Netflix and extra, has up to date lately.

Los Angeles, CA (March 29, 2023)—Jeff Friedl, a studio and touring drummer, has upgraded his personal Secret Hand Studios, situated in a big, snug visitor home on his property in Los Angeles, with an array of Focusrite units.

Since its founding, Secret Hand Studios has attracted shoppers as various as Devo (with whom Friedl has carried out and recorded), Poppy, Powerman 5000 and Narrowhead; commercials for shoppers together with SalesForce.com (the music tracks for which, produced by Mark Mothersbaugh, Friedl did percussion and drums); and tv applications like the brand new 2023 Netflix hit That 90s Show (Friedl performed drums on that as effectively).

“What we have been studying over time is {that a} various vary of shoppers wished flexibility by way of how they labored,” says Friedl, who has recorded, carried out and toured with artists akin to A Perfect Circle, Puscifer, Filter and Celebrating David Bowie and is co-founder of The Beta Machine. “Often they wished to arrange stations across the studio so they may transfer rapidly between devices and dealing configurations to maintain the creativity flowing and never fear about having to attach every thing each time.”

The Epic Effort to Save a Rare Focusrite Studio Console

Friedl’s basic API 1608 console at Secret Hand now shares area with parts from Focusrite, together with a Red 8Pre audio interface; a RedInternet A16R MkII 16-channel analog I/O interface; an ISA 828 MkII eight-channel mic pre; a RedInternet R1 Desktop Remote Monitor Controller; and a Clarett+ OctoPre interface.

“The API 1608 has nice preamps, however there are simply 16 of them, and that’s not sufficient for a fancy venture the place the consumer desires to maneuver round lots with out having to continually repatch,” he says. “That’s what acquired me began on taking a look at Focusrite within the first place. The ISA 828 MkII, with its ISA ADN8 card, and the Clarett+OctoPre gave us eight extra every. And all that with out further {hardware} or plenty of further cabling.

“All these totally different pre-amps give us so many tonal coloration choices and the flexibility to combine and match sounds, and the R1 controller makes managing all of it simpler, letting us toggle between pre-amps and between screens remotely, and letting us construct customized cue mixes,” Friedl says.

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Multiroom Studio Complex Opens in Dubai Highrise

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LP:ME has constructed three main studios and eight producer rooms on the 30th floor of Dubai’s Jumeirah Lake Towers.
LP:ME has constructed three fundamental studios and eight producer rooms on the thirtieth ground of Dubai’s Jumeirah Lake Towers.

Dubai (March 8, 2023)—Over the final two years, LP:ME has constructed three fundamental studios and eight producer rooms on the thirtieth ground of Dubai’s Jumeirah Lake Towers.

As the musical dwelling for quite a few regional and worldwide artists from the Middle East and North Africa, LP:ME has been working as a studio for 25 years, beginning with tape and a single room. It now affords three fundamental recording studios together with one flagship house purely for stereo manufacturing and two full Dolby-certified Atmos studios. There are additionally six DAW-based producer rooms and an in-house video manufacturing studio that gives bidirectional AV communication between all rooms in order that manufacturing periods could be live-streamed.

LP:ME CEO Daniel Romanovskyi selected PMC monitoring for each room with Eddy Jazra, head of the ability’s audio division, and Kevin Boujikian, undertaking director and PMC accomplice for UAE, who was closely concerned within the design and equipping of your entire complicated.

“The purpose was to satisfy world-class requirements by integrating the perfect gear,” Boujikian says. “Daniel needed to create one of the unique and finest studios within the MENA area, and I used to be very excited to be a part of it.”

Mixing Stormzy in Dolby Atmos

LP:ME’s stereo room is provided with a 48-channel SSL Duality Fuse console, paired with a quartet of PMC’s flagship QB1-XBDA displays and two PMC BST subwoofers—a monitoring setup present in solely a handful of different services across the globe, together with Netflix and Interscope studios.

“It’s greater than only a stereo room; it’s an expertise,” says Jazra. “The sonic picture is so clear that you could possibly spend hours in that room with out fatigue. We have additionally added a pair of PMC 6 lively studio displays for distinction and for nearfield work.”

LP:ME’s two Dolby Atmos suites are designed to enchantment to the burgeoning immersive audio market. The largest room has an 11.1.6 speaker setup consisting of three PMC BB6 XBD-A displays for LCR, eight ci40s for rear and sides, six ci65s for the overheads and a pair of PMC BST subwoofers for low-end copy. The second room has a 9.1.4 configuration with three PMC MB3 XBD-As, 10 ci65s and 4 PMC8-2 subs.

The facility’s six producer rooms characteristic PMC6 audio system in most rooms and IB1S-AIII displays within the largest room.

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Las Vegas’ Studio DMI Unveils Immersive Mix Room

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Studio DMI’s new immersive mix room is outfitted with a 7.1.4 speaker setup from Focal.
Studio DMI’s new immersive combine room is outfitted with a 7.1.4 speaker setup from Focal.

Las Vegas, NV (February 28, 2023)—Studio DMI in Las Vegas, NV has launched a brand new immersive combine room, Studio D, outfitted with a 7.1.4 speaker setup from Focal.

Studio D, regarded as first all-Focal Dolby Atmos combine room in Las Vegas, options three of Focal’s flagship Trio11 Be professional displays for LCR and eight of the corporate’s new Solo6 ST6 for encompass and peak zones. Two Focal Sub12 subwoofers deal with LFE and bass administration.

“A Focal system is nice as a result of it’s a system that I belief and am comfy with,” says Luca Pretolesi, Studio DMI founder and mixing and mastering engineer. “It is an extension of my ears, permitting me to realize a degree of accuracy and precision in my sound stage that’s unparalleled.”

Pretolesi just lately combined Drake’s Honestly, Nevermind album at Studio DMI on the power’s Focal Trio11 displays, and engineer Robert Guzman combined and mastered the brand new Skrillex album, Quest for Fire, in Dolby Atmos within the new Studio D.

Pretolesi explains his connection to the brand new studio design that includes Dolby Atmos and Focal displays: “A Focal system with Dolby Atmos is a extra dynamic, partaking, and immersive listening expertise. It is high-quality and makes you are feeling such as you’re proper in the midst of the motion.”

The new studio’s design was accomplished within the Spring of 2022. The room design was by Haverstick Designs, with the technical methods design by Pretolesi and Focal’s Joshua Estock. Studio D consists of customized acoustic remedies by Vicoustic and an Avid Pro Tools MTRX studio system. Studio DMI’s 4,000-square-foot advanced additionally homes three different Focal-based studios. (The new, all-Focal immersive combine room was featured in Mix’s Studio Class of 2022.)

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Mixing Stormzy in Dolby Atmos

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Heff Moraes and Will Reeves at PMC Studio London
Heff Moraes and Will Reeves at PMC Studio London

London, UK (January 12, 2022)—Producer Will Reeves recently visited PMC’s Dolby Atmos demo facility in London to mix the immersive version of UK rapper Stormzy’s third album, This Is What I Mean, for the Def Jam label.

Reeves was commissioned to create the Atmos mixes in October, having previously mixed a number of Atmos tracks for other Def Jam artists. He asked PMC if he could use its demo facility in London because he was already collaborating with the company on a Beyond the Mix seminar showcasing Atmos mixing techniques.

Reeves and his assistant, Pierpaolo Demarchi, created the Atmos mix for the single “Hide & Seek” and then followed it with the mix for “Firebabe.” Once Def Jam had approved both mixes, the rest of the album was quick to follow using stems provided by the stereo mix engineers. Most of the stereo mixing was carried out in Los Angeles by engineers Alex Ghenea and Leandro Hidalgo, who worked in their own respective studios.

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“It was challenging because we had to gather material from a number of different sources,” Reeves said, “but once we got underway it was very straightforward and we had the whole project finished in less than a month.”

“PMC’s facility is an amazing room with exceptional acoustics and monitoring,” he added. “I knew that by mixing the album of there I would have the best possible chance of making it sound incredible. Delivering great results with Atmos involves skill and a thorough understanding of the format, but it also involves great monitoring so that you can really hear what is happening with the soundfield.”

This Is What I Mean, which was No. 1 in the UK album charts for three weeks, is now also available as an immersive audio experience on streaming services such as Apple Music.