SADiE News
How the SADiE LRX has revolutionised my business -
Tony Faulkner on living with the SADiE LRX
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
Tony Faulkner on living with the SADiE LRX
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
Latest News
NEW SADiE Version 6.1.18 update released SADiE Version 6.1.18 - fully compliant with Windows 10, with Microsoft dropping support for Windows 7. . . . (1st May 2020) |
Prism Sound Appoints cma audio As Its New Distributor The move will introduce new customers to Prism Sound's high quality audio converters and interfaces. . . . (7th March 2019) |
Producer Mark Maitland Buys British To Equip His New Studio UK manufacturers Prism Sound and PMC have both played an important role creating Mark Maitland's new recording and mixing studio. . . . (9th October 2018) |
Prism Sound's Titan Audio Interface Give Composer Sacha Puttnam Peace Of Mind Titan at the heart of his recording set up, this highly respected musician says he has the space he needs to focus on his performance. . . . (10th September 2018) |
Prism Sound Enhances The SADiE User Experience With A New SADiE 6 Software Upgrade Expanded functionality and much improved latency figures are just some of the benefits delivered by SADiE V6.1.13 . . . (30th August 2018) |
Pro7ect's 2019 Songwriting Retreat Announces its Second Headline Producer The exceptionally talented producer/songwriter Gethin Pearson will host the Prism Sound pop up studio at Hotel Pelirocco during Pro7ect's highly collaborative three-day retreat. . . . (31st July 2018) |
Prism Sound and SADiE Help Capture Gregorian Introits in Latin and English A Lyra audio interface and SADiE 6 software delivered the perfect solution for a complex location recording project at Buckfast Abbey in Devon. . . . (10th June 2018) |
Prism Sound Appoints Sonic Lab as Its Distributor in Taiwan Based in Taipei, Sonic Lab has an extensive customer base that encompasses local pro audio, broadcast and film scoring facilities. . . . (6th June 2018) |
Prism Sound Boosts Its US Sales Force With Two Key Appointments Eric Klein and Scott D Ray join the company to promote its world-renowned audio recording products. . . . (19th April 2018) |
Prism Sound's Lyra 2 Brings 'Off The Scale' Sound Quality to US Band UNA American band UNA are delighted with their new Prism Sound Lyra 2 Audio Interface, which they won at NAMM after entering our prize draw competition. . . . (10th April 2018) |
Prism Sound Sponsors AES Archiving, Preservation & Restoration Conference The company's audio interfaces and converters are ideally suited to the quality demands of this important market. . . . (28th March 2018) |
SADiE, part of Prism Sound, Embraces ASIO Direct Monitoring (ADM) For Key Interface Products SADiE workstation software and Prism Sound's Award-winning Atlas, Titan and Lyra audio interfaces can now deliver a more convenient, automated workflow. . . . (17th December 2017) |
William Rowe Joins Prism Sound's Sales Team A recent graduate from De Montfort University, Rowe is delighted to be part of this highly respected pro audio company. . . . (28th September 2017) |
Airshow Mastering Installs Its Fourth Prism Sound SADiE System The company pays tribute to Prism Sound's decades of customer support and dedication to quality audio. . . . (18th October 2015) |
SADiE 6.1 is now released We are pleased to announce the release of SADiE Version 6.1, an update to the acclaimed SADiE6 recording and editing software which is now available for download. . . . (29th August 2014) |
SADiE's new mastering toolkit saves Eric Boulanger "hours and hours" The new mastering features that SADiE has incorporated into its popular SADiE 6 editing and production software have been hailed as a major improvement by internationally acclaimed mastering engineer Eric Boulanger - not least because they are saving him an enormous amount of time. . . . (27th June 2014) |
SADiE's WAV Master Announcing a brand new toolset, which is specifically designed for today's 'digital download' age . . . (27th June 2014) |
Peerless Mastering upgrades to SADiE 6 Software Reflecting an increasingly common pattern throughout the industry, Peerless Mastering's Jeff Lipton has recently upgraded his SADiE software to V6 and bought a Prism Sound Lyra 2 to use with it. . . . (26th March 2014) |
See Also: News Archive