MARK NEEDHAM FINDS ONE GML IS NOT ENOUGH

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Recording engineer, mixer, producer, Mark Needham, whose most recent project is a new Fleetwood Mac album due out in 2003.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Mark Needham, a recording engineer, mixer and producer with nearly 30 years experience in the studio, never goes anywhere without his GML 8200 parametric equalizers. Dividing his time largely between recording facilities in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, Needham likes to have several GML 8200s on hand wherever he works.

"I like to use a couple," confirms Needham. "I will often use an 8200 across the console's main stereo bus. That way, it's easy to just reach over and add a little bit of 'air' to the mix without making any major changes to the overall sound."

The GML 8200 has been the reference standard parametric equalizer for over 20 years and is a staple of many studios. Designed by renowned engineer George Massenburg, a pioneer of the very concept of parametric EQ, the GML 8200 offers two channels of five-band equalization, each band broadly overlapping the next, allowing the user to zero in on a frequency with surgical precision. The archetypal stereo parametric equalizer against which all others are measured, the GML 8200 offers extraordinary resolution, benchmark transparency and generous headroom.

Needham's music credits include Elton John, Cake, Simon Says, Red House Painters and virtually every Chris Isaak project to date. Needham reveals that he has also been working on a new Fleetwood Mac project for Reprise, a double album scheduled for release in 2003.

In addition to being Chris Isaak's engineer of choice in the recording studio for many years, Needham reports that he also mixes the music segments for Showtime's one-hour episodic series, "The Chris Isaak Show." The situation-based series offers a comedic look at the daily life of the musician and his band, his personal manager and weekly guest artists.

Filmed on a soundstage in Canada, the show's live recordings and video are shipped to Needham in California where he assembles, edits and mixes the music tracks. "'The Chris Isaak Show' is broadcast in 5.1," notes Needham, "so I put three channels of GML 8200 equalizers on the left, center and right buses and a further two channels on the rear surrounds."

Needham continues, "The 8200 works great on the buses, where I might just want to add a little bit of EQ. I also like to put it on the guitars, and will typically use it on the guitar subgroup. I maybe want to add a little mid-range without coloring the whole mix. With the 8200 you can easily add a little air or put a couple of dBs of boost in the mid-range without altering the sound of the entire mix."

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