Working Title Recording Studios in San Mateo, CA, is a new breed of music
\nproduction facility. One of only a handful of Dolby Atmos\u00ae-certified studios in
\nthe Bay Area, it was founded by Kenny Kaiser, long-time front-of-house mixer
\nfor artists including The Killers, Sammy Hagar, and his associate Forrest
\nLawrence, a noted mixer and system technician.<\/p>\n
Kaiser says mixing in the immersive, three-dimensional Atmos environment is
\nthe next step for music. \u201cSince the pandemic lockdown, everyone is looking for
\na new experience,\u201d he says. \u201cIt’s going to be here for a very long time.\u201d As well
\nas his acclaimed mixing skills, Kaiser also brought some other things to the
\nventure \u2014 key components from his inventory of Focusrite Red and Focusrite
\nRedNet products. These included the Focusrite Red 16Line 64-In\/64-Out
\nThunderbolt\u2122 3 and Pro Tools | HD\u2122 compatible audio interface and Focusrite
\nRedNet MP8R eight-channel mic pre. He also added his unusual but effective
\nstudio-monitoring choice: a full Atmos 7.1.4 array including C8.1T overhead
\nspeakers, CDD8 surround speakers, and CDD10 main speakers, all from Martin
\nAudio \u2014 the same brand whose MLA line arrays he prefers on tour.<\/p>\n
While Kaiser continues to work with Hagar\u2019s current project, the Circle, Kaiser
\nand Lawrence have their sights set on music, commercial, and corporate
\nproduction work at Working Title Recording, with Focusrite equipment integral
\nto making it effective and efficient. The Dante network and Focusrite products
\ncompletely cover the facility\u2019s two control rooms and four tracking\/recording
\nspaces. \u201cI was talking to Forrest, and I said we can run one mic line on Mogami
\nXLR cabling for $180, or we can get 128 channels over a thousand feet of Cat 5
\ncable for a fraction of that,\u201d recalls Kaiser. \u201cAnd we don\u2019t have to be punching
\nso many holes in walls. Between the cost saving and the ease of connections,
\ngoing with Focusrite interfaces made total sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kaiser says the Focusrite Red 16Line units have become the studio\u2019s go-to
\nconverters and act as the I\/O between mic pre-amps and the studio\u2019s Pro Tools<\/p>\n
systems as well as the main control room\u2019s SSL Sigma console. The Focusrite
\nRedNet MP8R moves around the facility in its own rack as needed. \u201cWe have
\nthat as a floating mic pre that we use in four recording rooms \u2014 two regular
\nlive rooms, a loading dock room which we also use to track in, and a front
\nroom that we use for either guitars or if we have somebody that has a small
\nproject coming in,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n
Collectively, Focusrite technology gives Working Title Recording Studios a
\nflexible and reliable digital ecosystem that lets those in the studio focus on
\ncreativity. \u201cFor instance, I\u2019m able to patch whatever I want to patch and it\u2019s all
\non one screen,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd the Focusrite mic pres sound super, I\u2019m a huge
\nfan of them. Combine that with what Atmos can do with music \u2014 we’ve had
\nabout 15 demos with artists and record-label people, and we\u2019ve seen two
\npeople actually cry when they heard it \u2014 and you literally get goosebumps
\nhearing it. It\u2019s that amazing. And Focusrite lets us do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo get the infrastructure going with a traditional analogue way of thinking, it
\nwould have been three times as expensive. Just being able to have these units
\nand not have to worry about conversions \u2013 just plug in a Cat 5 cable and get to
\nwork \u2013 there\u2019s so much money and time saved.\u201d<\/p>\n
Along with the Martin Audio speakers, which Kaiser says are well matched with
\nthe Dolby Atmos SPL and EQ-curve specifications, Working Title Recording
\nStudios has what it takes to be competitive. \u201cAnd the holes in the wall are a lot
\nsmaller,\u201d he laughs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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