Ireland-based producer, engineer and musician Stuart Gray recently implemented a new Audient ASP8024-HE console to the hybrid setup at his Jealoustown Recording Studios in County Meath, Eire.
“I didn’t realize that it would have such an impact on my sound, but – wow, it really has,” says Gray. “Honestly, the Audient has changed the sound of everything I do.”
Gray has worked with artists that include Brian Kennedy, Gavin James, Ryan Sheridan, Finbar Furey and many more that he describes as “super-talented but currently unknown and should be world famous.” His setup includes Pro Tools Ultimate and two Antelope Orion32 HD interfaces, but the move to adding the Audient analog desk took a while to realize.
“A few years back I watched Cenzo Townshend’s YouTube clips of his studio and I literally was hooked on just the look of the desk,” Gray explains. I took a chance and contacted Cenzo on Instagram and he wrote back straight away. The man is a world of knowledge and had so much good to say about the desk. There was no going back at that stage for me.”
