STUDIO

SolidStatelogic G Series NewsReal World Shapes The FutureGabriel's residential studio complex, Real World Studios.Peterin Box near the Georgian city of Bath. has opened with what isone of the most spectacular studio control rooms so far constructed.Appropriately, it is also the home of one of the most impressive andnovel SSL consoles so far supplied.The vast control room /recording area houses a huge, U- shaped,custom built SL 4000 G Series console. The SL 4080 console is fittedwith 64 channels, G Series Studio Computer with Total RecallTM andan SSL Synchroniser Control system. The console includes ampleframe space for the addition of extra channel modules. Specialfeatures include film panning, tape transport remotes panel, customcentre section meter panel, a synchroniser and status display panel,plus custom patchrows and producer's table. The console alsohouses unique custom Cue Matrix circuitry designed by Real Worldtechnical staff.While the console breaks new ground, its positioning within theroom is also novel. The console faces away from the recording areaand looks through large windows over a man -made lake and mill race,which partially surround the converted Box Mill building.The unusual nature of the complex extends to the other recordingareas too. Throughout the converted Bath stone building are naturallylit areas with stone walls, raised catwalks and special ceramic airconditioning ducting. Almost every room in the residential studiocomplex is available as a recording area and these are all linked withmic, line and MIDI tielines to the studio's three control rooms.The two other control rooms are owner Peter Gabriel's workroomand a keyboard /programming room. Both of these are also equippedwith SSL Consoles: an SL 4048 E Series with 36 channels, G SeriesStudio Computer and Total RecallTM: and an SL 4040 E Series with40 channels and an SSL Studio Computer.First G Series Down UnderRhinoceros Recordings has rapidly established itself asSydney'sone of the world's best recording facilities since its inception in1981. With the installation of an SL 4072 G Series with 56 mono and4 stereo channels and G Series Computer with Total RecallTM in itsnew Studio 2, Rhinoceros has certainly joined the top rank ofprestigious international studios.Studio owners, David Nicholas and Andrew Scott, have alwaysbelieved in using the best studio designers and equipment in theirgoal of gaining an international reputation for Rhinoceros. When theycame to specify equipment for their new studio, they wereimmediately attracted by the extra speed and improved software ofthe G Series computer and the sonically improved audioperformance of the G Series console. In choosing G Series for theirnew control room they expected the best -and they weren'tdisappointed, as Michael Fronzek, Technical Director of Rhinocerossays, "The G Series console and computer address the fewshortcomings of the E Series, which has already established itself asthe Rolls -Royce of recording consoles."A Studio 2, Rhinoceros Recordings. Sydney.Fifth SSL For Record PlantA Los Angeles Record Plant.The Los Angeles Record Plant, part of the Chrysalis Group andone of the world's leading recording facilities, has installed anew SL 4000 G Series console. Record Plant's new console is an SL4072 with 64 channels, G Series Studio Computer and Total RecallTMLocated in Studio 2 of Record Plant's recording complex, the consoleis used for record dates as well as for scoring of television and motionpictures."We've had great success with SSL consoles since 1979," saysChris Stone, President of Record Plant. "This is our fifth SSL consoleand it replaces a previous E Series model that has been in service forseven years - longer than any other console in the history of thestudio. The new G Series offers significant advances in clarity andrange of control and once again SSL has established a new standardfor quality in console technology. Our clients are among the mostdemanding in the world and the initial reactions have been absolutelyincredible."