The Music Group, one of the largest recording studio complexes in the Midwest, has installed both Neve Genesys and Neve Genesys Black consoles for its 10th anniversary at its newly remodeled facility in Edmond, OK. Vintage King provided the equipment package at the world’s first studio to install both Neve consoles.
“We picked the large format Neve Genesys for our A studio, a perfect fit because it’s geared toward large scale tracking and mixing,” explains producer/engineer and studio co-owner Chris Freels. “I grew up on 2-inch tape and large format desks and I wanted to have that feeling here. Our B studio has the Neve Genesys Black, which is our Pro Tools overdub studio with a signal path geared more towards DAW projects.”
Studio co-owner LG Hamilton adds, “Neve has always been a trusted brand and Ryan McGuire at Vintage King basically guided us through the options and after looking around it was natural for us to narrow it down to those particular desks. He also helped us in picking out our new Burl AD/DA converters and Shadow Hills mastering compressor.”
In 2005, two successful Oklahoma studios, West 2nd Recording and Hamilton House Studio D merged to form what is now The Music Group. The new 3-studio recording facility was constructed from the ground up and designed by George Newburn of Studio 440 in Hollywood, CA.
Freels notes, “We do traditional album projects for independent artists and major labels, we do advertising work, film soundtracks—a little bit of everything. Each of us here works a little bit differently and the Neve consoles are perfect for our various projects and workflows. There’s not another studio in the region that’s equipped like this and we wanted to have the highest sonic standards possible.”
