Heliport Studios opts for Aviom
Published: ASIA
AUSTRALIA: HeliportStudios in Queensland has launched with an Aviom Pro16 personal mixing system and the only commercially-available Solid State Logic Duality console in the country as part of its setup.
Incorporated as part of the studio’s cue system, the personal mixers provide the musicians a customised cue mix while offering the studio’s engineering staff flexibility of setup.
The facility features five recording spaces consisting of a large drum/live room, a vocal/instrument room, a tube room, an acoustic room and a vocal booth, it required a cue system with the flexibility to meet the different needs of the musicians that record there. As studio producer and engineer Allan Pease explains, the Aviom personal mixers were the right choice for Heliport Studios because both engineers and musicians get the customisation they desire.
‘The Aviom personal mixers are quick and simple to use, and once you know how to set them up, it’s a breeze to make them do what you want. Every artist loves them, without exception,’ said Mr Pease. ‘We recently hosted a five-piece band and once we were set up and the studio was ready to track, it only took about 15 minutes in total to get the artists acquainted with the Aviom units. For the rest of the session we never heard “can I get a bit more vocal” or any other such requests, yet everyone was happy with their headphone mixes.’
The studio has seven Aviom A-16II Personal Mixers, which can be adapted to various setups from all seven in the large live room, to one in each recording space, to any combination in between. For a typical monitoring setup, 16 of the 24 bus outs from the Duality are fed into the 16 channels of an Aviom AN-16/i Input Module. From there the AN-16/i sends mix stems to the A-16IIs via Cat-5 cable. Channel assignment is done within the Duality’s routing matrix where Heliport Studios’ engineers can route vocals, for example, into mix bus 1 which will then be available on the A-16II Personal Mixers.