Studio owner, producer/engineer and multi-instrumentalist Hans Christian recently received a Grammy Award nomination for his latest release, Ocean Dreaming Ocean, with an Audient ASP8024-HE mixing console at the heart of his workflow for the recording process at STUDIO 330, his facility in Sturgeon Bay, WI.
Hans installed the 36-channel ASP8024-HE and notes, “I’ve owned various analog and digital boards over the past nearly 25 years. What I really appreciate about this board is its very low noise floor, its incredible headroom and its layout which makes the workflow so much easier than on other boards of this size.
“Another great thing about the board are the mic preamps. I am getting such musical results from the on-board preamps, that I never touch my outboard pres. I love the dual fader/in-line design. Easy, elegant, logical. In my work, I need to stay focused on the music, not the technology and this board makes it very easy.”
Ocean Dreaming Ocean is a posthumous collaboration between cellist David Darling and Christian, who produced, mixed and mastered it. Describing his use of the console for his work on the console, he continues, “I also like the fact that it has 12 aux sends plus two cue sends which can be assigned as needed. Along with it, eight stereo effects returns. So I created some intricate processing stems with various high-end outboard processors and because the effects returns can be assigned to any of the 24 busses, it was very easy to print these effects stems.
“Finally, the ASP8024-HE has those three magical buttons on the master bus: the Carnhill transformers, the low bump and the high lift. Very tasteful. The board looks as elegant as it sounds. It is modern, energy efficient, quiet – and has balls when you push it.”
