TAFE Queensland Brisbane updates with ADAM Audio
Published: ASIA
AUSTRALIA: Technical and further education establishment, TAFE Queensland Brisbane, has treated its sound production students to a new studio monitoring solution from ADAM Audio. The new speakers provide a striking contrast with some of the studio’s original 20 year-old recording equipment that is still in use today, such as its Sound Workshop CMF34 mixing desk and 2-inch Otari tape machine. In 2008, the teaching facility expanded to five studios and now provides students with setups ranging from those that a student could afford, right up to the professionally equipped main studio. The new ADAM S3X-H monitors sit atop an SSL Duality consoles in the main control room.
‘Our rooms have a great vibe,’ commented TAFE sound production teacher, Ian Taylor. ‘The facility is one of the best in the country. Between the main live room and the studio drum room, there is nothing that can’t be done. We are wired to a full stage for live shows with a line array for a 200 person capacity room. My teaching includes mainly music performed by myself so I also get to sit on the back end of students’ headphone mixes.’
My Taylor appreciates the value that a solid monitoring setup can provide – particularly for students in the process of honing their listening and mixing skills. When asked which problems had plagued him most throughout his career, he replied: ‘Having to make adjustments so the mixes translate to a wide range of audio systems. As I mix a lot of rock music, I need headroom to pull together big open rock mixes without compression. The ADAMs really move some air.’