{"id":3631,"date":"2021-06-09T09:34:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/?p=3631"},"modified":"2021-06-25T09:36:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T14:36:51","slug":"canadore-college-embraces-solid-state-logic-origin-for-its-recording-engineering-music-production-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/09\/canadore-college-embraces-solid-state-logic-origin-for-its-recording-engineering-music-production-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadore College Embraces Solid State Logic ORIGIN for its Recording Engineering \u2014 Music Production Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Applied arts and technology school Canadore College acquired a Solid State Logic ORIGIN analog in-line mixing console at the beginning of the current academic year to support its new two-year Recording Engineering \u2013 Music Production program. The ORIGIN was part of a complete studio package supplied by Studio Economik in Montreal, including an SSL Fusion processor, that instructors are using to familiarize students with analog music production hardware.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of our student are used to using the computer and have never worked on a console. They\u2019re not familiar with what a console is capable of,\u201d says Ben Leggett, professor and coordinator on the new program at Canadore College, which is located about 180 miles due north of Toronto. Leggett is a JUNO Award-nominated producer, engineer and mixer working in music production and film post production, and also has his own recording studio in North Bay.<\/p>\n

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\nShaping sounds \u2018out of the box\u2019
\n\u201cI wanted to get the ORIGIN because of the EQ on each channel, and how you can shape the sound with the four bands, just like you can in the computer,\u201d he says. \u201cSo we\u2019re able to show students how to apply EQ manually with a physical piece of equipment. Another big thing is getting students to understand how the routing works, and how it\u2019s very much the same in a DAW and a console, and having that lightbulb go off.\u201d<\/p>\n

For a generation of students that has only ever worked on a computer, the console also enables faculty members to highlight some of the differences between analog and digital audio processing. \u201cSonically, you can crank the console\u2019s EQ knob all the way and it still sounds good, as opposed to digital, which sometimes doesn\u2019t do the same thing,\u201d says Leggett.<\/p>\n

Plus, he says, \u201cThe sonic quality that the console will add when you push a signal into it is different. Depending on what you\u2019re going for, you can push the signal louder into the SSL console and it will give you a different sound than pushing it into a computer program.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leggett and other faculty members at the college installed, integrated and commissioned the new music production studio shortly before the program launched in September 2020. \u201cWe received the ORIGIN console mid-August, so we only had about three weeks to set it up,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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\nLearning in a flexible, multi-use space
\nThe new control room is housed in a former television broadcast studio on the campus that the college enlarged during summer 2020 to provide space for the recording engineering program. The control room is adjacent to a 40-ft. by 40-ft. multi-use space that is available for tracking and is also used as a TV broadcast studio. \u201cBut in front of the ORIGIN console there\u2019s a small space where you can set up a small drum kit or other instruments and do some recording,\u201d says Leggett.<\/p>\n

The control room\u2019s outboard racks house a wide selection of processing and effects equipment along with Amphion, Neumann and Avantone monitors. \u201cEach of them sounds completely different,\u201d he says of the speakers, providing students with a variety of references.<\/p>\n

Canadore College was able to maintain in-person instruction during the pandemic for the duration of the academic year, which ended in April. \u201cWe had to reduce our class sizes,\u201d says Leggett, due to the pandemic. \u201cBut it worked out for the better because smaller class sizes meant more hands-on time with the console for students.\u201d<\/p>\n

ORIGIN is ideal for educational institutions, incorporating much of the audio mixing console functionality that students are likely to encounter when they go on to pursue a career in music.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe take one button at a time,\u201d he says. \u201cWe learned the basics this year, and there\u2019s still room to learn on the console for the students in the second year. It\u2019s good just to be able to teach everything possible and to show the value of a console.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fact that there is no automation on the ORIGIN is an additional benefit to the new program, Leggett believes. \u201cWe want to mix on the console without automation. You do a pass and that\u2019s the mix. If you want to do it again, you have to go back to where you started,\u201d he says. \u201cWe also have a little digital mixer with automation so you can do a version with the computer, or you can take the whole console out of the equation and work digitally or have them work together.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nEstablishing a solid foundation
\nEven if graduates don\u2019t go on to work on a console, learning the basic operations of an analog desk gives them a solid foundation in music production technology. \u201cIf you want to pursue this as a career, you have to know how they did it in the beginning and how you can do it now and everything in between,\u201d says Leggett.<\/p>\n

Canadore College trains people through applied learning, leadership and innovation. It provides access to over 80 full-time quality programs, has outstanding faculty and provides success services to students from nearly 400 Canadian communities and 15 international countries. The College, its students, and alumni add $369 million to the Nipissing Parry Sound service area economy. Approximately 1,000 students graduate from Canadore each year, and they join 47,000 alumni working across the globe. Canadore receives less than 50 per cent of its traditional funding from the provincial Ministry of Colleges and Universities and relies on its own innovation and entrepreneurial endeavours and generous donors for the balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Applied arts and technology school Canadore College acquired a Solid State Logic ORIGIN analog in-line mixing console at the beginning of the current academic year to support its new two-year Recording Engineering \u2013 Music Production program. The ORIGIN was part of a complete studio package supplied by Studio Economik in Montreal, including an SSL Fusion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/image1.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestudiolounge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}