As part of the refurbishments of Studio One at Downtown Studios, the studio was kitted out with a "state-of-theart" Solid Statio Logic Duality SE Mixing Console ... the only one of its kind on the continent.
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Monday 4 August 2014
Downtown Studios hosts SSL Duality SE training
At 10am on Monday, 30 June, the iconic and newly refurbished Downtown Studios in Johannesburg hosted a training session in Studio 1 on their brand new Solid State Logic Duality SE mixing console. The training session, conducted by Kevin Manas, owner of local SSL distributors Hi-Tech Audio, aimed to educate local professional audio engineers on the inner workings of the state of the art console.
Accordingly, a handful of local engineers attended which quickly turned into a frenzy as they lusted to get their hands on and wrap their head around one of the most flexible and desirable mixing consoles on offer today. Needless to say, the bedlam settled as everyone realised there was more to this console than met the eye and the features were slowly worked through with the aid of Manas.
The SSL Duality SE in Studio 1 is a 72-channel version, custom built-to-order. The Duality SE is currently SSL’s flagship offering with over 200 consoles sold worldwide. Other customers include the Royal College of Music, Sweden; Abbey Road, UK; Hit Factory Criteria, USA; and Humber College, Canada.
The Duality SE is offered in frame sizes up to 96 channels and features SSL’s on-board automation system and constant visual feedback via multiple TFT displays mounted in the meter bridge. The console is able to operate as a purely analogue console and also comes with the added benefit of allowing simultaneous DAW control (two DAWs, actually) via a simple push of a button which flips the console into DAW mode. The new A-FADA feature allows your DAW automation to drive the analogue faders.
SSL control software, the Duality Logictivity Browser, running on your DAW host PC offers a variety of features such as channel naming and saving, recalling of console settings and routing options. The input section features dual microphone preamps – SSL’s SuperAnalogue, the base preamp technology, and VHD which allows the introduction of 2nd and 3rd order harmonic distortion into the microphone signal path. The usual SSL features that everyone knows and loves are also available such as SSL’s iconic dynamics and EQ on every channel and the G-series inspired buss compressor that can be inserted into any of the three stereo busses. The EQ can be switched between E and G-series curves at the push of a button.
Check out the July/August issue of Pro Systems where we take a look at the past, present and future of Downtown Studios and examine the upgrades that have taken place there.
Accordingly, a handful of local engineers attended which quickly turned into a frenzy as they lusted to get their hands on and wrap their head around one of the most flexible and desirable mixing consoles on offer today. Needless to say, the bedlam settled as everyone realised there was more to this console than met the eye and the features were slowly worked through with the aid of Manas.
The SSL Duality SE in Studio 1 is a 72-channel version, custom built-to-order. The Duality SE is currently SSL’s flagship offering with over 200 consoles sold worldwide. Other customers include the Royal College of Music, Sweden; Abbey Road, UK; Hit Factory Criteria, USA; and Humber College, Canada.
The Duality SE is offered in frame sizes up to 96 channels and features SSL’s on-board automation system and constant visual feedback via multiple TFT displays mounted in the meter bridge. The console is able to operate as a purely analogue console and also comes with the added benefit of allowing simultaneous DAW control (two DAWs, actually) via a simple push of a button which flips the console into DAW mode. The new A-FADA feature allows your DAW automation to drive the analogue faders.
SSL control software, the Duality Logictivity Browser, running on your DAW host PC offers a variety of features such as channel naming and saving, recalling of console settings and routing options. The input section features dual microphone preamps – SSL’s SuperAnalogue, the base preamp technology, and VHD which allows the introduction of 2nd and 3rd order harmonic distortion into the microphone signal path. The usual SSL features that everyone knows and loves are also available such as SSL’s iconic dynamics and EQ on every channel and the G-series inspired buss compressor that can be inserted into any of the three stereo busses. The EQ can be switched between E and G-series curves at the push of a button.
Check out the July/August issue of Pro Systems where we take a look at the past, present and future of Downtown Studios and examine the upgrades that have taken place there.
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