The Melbourne facility of JMC Academy, an Australia-based school for music, animation, visual and game design, and film and television production that also has locations in Sydney and Brisbane, was recently equipped with an Audient ASP4816-HE mixing console.
Studio/facilities manager Marcus Hernan explains, “We have five studios on campus as well as numerous smaller production suites and edit labs. Each studio follows the curriculum from small bedroom style production suites with all-in-one interfaces in trimester one, to the ASP4816-HE in tri two, control surface in tri three and a larger format console in tri four onwards.
“Our Audient is housed in the trimester two studio as the formal introduction to analogue studio workflow. It is the centrepiece of a studio comprising a Pro Tools rig with an assortment of outboard gear tailored toward the demonstration and application of the basics of studio operation and recording.”
The desk is used by audio engineering students as well as in collaborative projects with other courses such as music, film and animation. Each year some 80 to 100 students will work with the console, and they can also use it to work on personal projects as well.
The ASP4816-HE at JMC Melbourne came after the JMC Sydney campus added one. Hernan: “The first conversation regarding what was going to be the best option had a lot to do with what sort of features that were parallel to what we had been teaching, and what was going to be best to introduce to the students moving forward. The ASP4816-HE was a clear winner in these categories. An all round improvement in sound, workflow (and teaching workflow) and honestly, aesthetic. Our HE is an awesome looking and sounding console.
