International. Mixing projects for clients located all over the world can be a challenging prospect that requires a unique combination of passion for high-quality audio, a well-designed control room, wonderful ears and, of course, exceptional equipment.
Recognizing these criteria, Gaslamp Studios based their new mixing room around SSL's AWS 948 Console while recruiting the talent of a Grammy-nominated mixing engineer and world-class acoustics expert. Located in the heart of the San Diego neighborhood of the same name, Gaslamp offers remote mixing services for artists and producers.
Gaslamp was designed by German Jochen Veith, JV acoustics expert. Acoustics. A collection of vintage analog equipment and modern digital equipment, as well as a complete processing library with plug-ins, complement AWS. Studio monitoring includes a SYSTEM by PMC along with near-field monitors by Yamaha and Sony.
"AWS allows me to have a hybrid workflow. When we are recording or in the production stage, you may use external equipment for the front and keep everything inside the computer. The AWS's Digital Audio Station (DAW) control capabilities are perfect for that part of the process, and it gives me access to transport, faders, and parameter control plug-ins in Pro Tools. When we get to the mixing stage I use AWS more as a legacy console. I separate the Pro Tools outputs through the console inputs and interface with the external team," says Kellogg Boynton, principal engineer at Gaslamp, a Grammy-nominated engineer whose credits include Eric Clapton, Taylor Swift and Warren Haynes.
The two classic SSL dynamics processors in the central section of the AWS provide Boynton with a compressor and a gate/expander that can be assigned to any channel.
