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How the SADiE LRX has revolutionised my business Dear SADiE, I wanted to send you a progress report on the LRX after using it on the road for a few months. In a nutshell it is a revelation in terms of quality, production power and portability. I have been recording classical projects (literally thousands of them) on location for a very long time and even a few months ago I was dragging huge heavy flight-cases of gear all over the place. For example our old Neve Melbourn 12:2 analogue desk took four people to carry it into Manchester's Free Trade Hall when it was in its flight-case, and when we did multitrack in Vienna's Musikverein we needed four piano movers to carry the Sony reel-to-reel machine up the stairs because it was too big and heavy to go in the lift. Last week I did a job in Bergen and travelled by the Norwegian equivalent of EasyJet with one small suitcase and the LRX + mics in a small carry-on. I was worried initially that I might be trading a small amount of sound quality off in exchange for convenience and portability, but this has not turned out to be the case at all. The LRX is the best sounding digital audio mixer I have ever used, and in shoot-outs with my usual analogue desks the LRX held its own. The overall quality is very slightly drier than the analogue mixers, but at no expense of string quality and ambience - especially at 88.2kHz. Conversely, the analogue mixers actually sounded slightly 'dirtier' when more than four channels of virtual earth mixing were in the system. Having the separate mics available in the editing process also enables fine-tuning of the final sound mix without the previous hassles of multitrack for someone like me, trying to keep things simple. For people like me the LRX is a fantastic piece of kit which deserves much greater recognition for its quality, flexibility and brilliance in innovation. It is revolutionising my business not having to drag a mixer, mixer PSU, A/D's, D/A's, recorders and all their accompanying flight-cases all over the place. Best wishes, Tony
SADiE UK manufactures a range of professional digital audio and video equipment for the recording, broadcast, film and CD mastering industries. SADiE UK (Studio Audio & Video Ltd), The Old School, Stretham, Ely, Cambridgeshire CB6 3LD, UK. |
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Tony Faulkner has engineered around three thousand commercial classical and light music recordings for many labels, including many Grammy, Gramophone and other award-winners. His work has taken him to twenty four different countries to record with more than seventy orchestras, and since the earliest days of v.1 Tony has been a loyal and enthusiastic SADiE customer. His company Green Room Productions' most recent purchase has been a SADiE LRX system which has already visited four countries in the few months he has owned it.