REPORT REVIEWS REVEALED / Cameron Craig: mixing Melua / SSL Origin mixer: a 4k core / Good Morning Britain: Covid-19 news / Tommaso Colliva: Zoom music video / CEDAR DNS 8D: Dante de-noiser / Tim Bran: remote recording guide / Remote production special / AMS Neve 1073® OPX / DJ Hardwell’s Curaçao studio V19.3 | May/June 2020 | FREE The Interview XxxxxRomesh Xxxxxxxx Dodangoda Xxx Genelec RAW Easy on the eye. Easy on the environment. Introducing RAW, an eco-friendly reimagining of our most iconic studio, AV and home audio models. Featuring a distinctive, recycled-aluminium MDE enclosure design, RAW loudspeakers require no painting and less intensive finishing than standard models. The result is a unique design aesthetic that allows the raw beauty of the aluminium to shine through. And because it’s Genelec, you know it will sound as good as it looks – in any setting. We will be donating a percentage of every RAW speaker sold to the Audio Engineering Society’s fundraising initiative – helping this much-loved organisation continue its valuable work throughout the current COVID-19 crisis. For more information visit genelec.com/raw / Contents 28 V19.3 | May/June 2020 News & Analysis 5 Leader 6 News News, studios, appointments 12 New Products 50 A Day In The Life Peter Bailey, location sound mixer for ITV’s Good Morning Britain Columns 14 Business Lockdown boosts music streaming 15 Sound Opinion Michael Stipe and Bono perform new songs about the Romesh Dodangoda lockdown world and both make you cry …but for very different reasons 16 Crosstalk Rocket-Powered pioneer of internet collaboration Tim Bran on making records in cyberspace 45 Playlist “Ten albums that greatly influenced me” …so what was the 11th? Craft 28 Romesh Dodangoda The Grammy-nominated engineer/producer talks technique, recording Bring Me The Horizon, running the Control Room audio community and keeping busy during 16 18 lockdown 46 Hardwell’s studios The Dutch DJ’s high-end facilities, including a new-build on the Caribbean island of Curaçao 33 46 Remote Production Special 34 Tim Bran’s step-by-step guide to remote recording 35 Cameron Craig remote mixing with Katie Melua 35 Simon Power editing & sound design for Doctor Who 36 Mike Aiton keeping voice-to-picture in sync for post 37 Simon Hayes post-lockdown high-budget film and TV 38 Tommaso Colliva making Zoom-collaboration music videos Genelec RAW 40 Roland Heap a unique and Covid-safe remote ADR solution 42 Dante long-distance GPS clocks+500km=9.5ms round-trip 44 Genelec calibrate Pete Boxta Martin’s monitors from afar Easy on the eye. 44 Lawo prepare KQED FM’s remote Master Control Room Easy on the environment. Introducing RAW, an eco-friendly reimagining of our most iconic studio, AV and home audio models. Featuring a distinctive, recycled-aluminium MDE enclosure design, RAW loudspeakers require no painting and less intensive finishing REVIEWS than standard models. The result is a unique design aesthetic that allows the raw beauty of the aluminium to shine through. And because it’s Genelec, you know it will sound as good as it looks – in any setting. 18 SSL Origin mixer 20 AMS Neve 1073® OPX We will be donating a percentage of every RAW speaker sold to the Audio Engineering Society’s fundraising initiative – helping this much-loved 22 Antelope Audio Orion Studio Synergy Core organisation continue its valuable work throughout the current COVID-19 crisis. 23 NUGEN Audio Producer bundle 24 CEDAR Audio DNS 8D United Plugins MorphVerb & Verbum For more information visit genelec.com/raw 25 26 Bettermaker Bus Compressor 50 May/June 2020 / 3 / Welcome Leader EDITORIAL Nigel Jopson Editor Nigel Jopson [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS George Shilling, Jon Thornton, Dan Daley, Dennis Baxter, Danny Turner, Russell Cottier, Isolation John Broomhall, Simon Clark, Mike Aiton, Bob Katz, Bill Lacey, Piper Payne, Tim Oliver, Erica Basnicki, Catherine Vericolli, David Kennedy, Phil Ward, Rob Speight and Gijs Friesen ADVERTISEMENT SALES EUROPE Chris Cope +44 (0)20 3289 8015 [email protected] US & INTERNATIONAL Jeff Turner +1 415 455 8301 [email protected] PRODUCTION AND LAYOUT Dean Cook, The Magazine Production Company +44 (0)1273 467579 [email protected] PRINTING ake a moment to remember those were among software developers helping Gemini Print Southern Ltd, Unit A1 we have lost: friends, industry audio pros with free licenses for lockdown- Dolphin Road, Shoreham-by-Sea, stalwarts and legends, loved ones. home use. West Sussex. BN43 6NZ On behalf of the team at Resolution, For production pros, separation from facilities thanks to the frontline workers and clients threatened livelihoods. Many of us MANAGEMENT Tkeeping us all safe. 2020 changes everything, work isolated, but our workflows were not Publisher Dave Robinson and you can be sure what we thought of as actually prepared for isolation. Sometimes it felt [email protected] ‘normal’ will be reshaped. A YouGov poll of over like being on a bridge to nowhere. Despite Published by S2 Publications Ltd 4,000 people found only 9% of Britons actually familiarity with digital file-exchange, a lot of +44 (0)1543 57872 want life to return to normal when lockdown is production work was ill-prepared for lockdown. [email protected] over. More than half (54%) hope they will make This edition of Resolution contains a 10-page 192 Longford Road, Cannock changes in their own lives, and for the country Remote Production section, a ‘lockdown Staffordshire. WS11 1QN as a whole to learn from the crisis. special’. I spoke to colleagues and pros from all We need to work together. Well done to branches of audio — from music recording and ©2020 S2 Publications Ltd. All rights those in the audio industry who volunteered, ADR to hardware setup — and collated their reserved. No part of this publication donated, or used their inventive imagination to innovative ideas to share with readers. It was may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the help others. Happily there are too many to fascinating to hear the twists and turns taken to prior written consent of the publisher. name everyone, but some whose imagination arrive at workable remote systems, and Great care is taken to ensure accuracy in impressed include SSE Audio (PA system for revealing to discover that (in overview) many the preparation of this publication, but neither S2 Publications Ltd or the editor Nightingale ExCeL NHS hospital), deltalive production pros arrived at similar solutions via can be held responsible for its contents. (walkie-talkie radios to four hospitals in different routes. The views expressed are those of the London), Antwerp-based AED group There is a highly synergistic circle of life in contributors and not necessarily those of the publisher. S2 Publications Ltd. (developed UVC disinfecting lights), Toronto’s audio. Now is the time to nurture relationships Registered in England and Wales. Yorkville Sound (manufacturing ventilators), and examine our procedures for working and Wisconsin manufacturer Sound Devices together. Are they fit for purpose going forward? REGISTERED OFFICE Gowran House, 56 Broad Street, (turned production line over to face shields, Every sector in our industry needs to examine Chipping Sodbury, Bristol, BS37 6AG now making 30,000 daily). Arturia, Audio Ease, the short and long-term changes required to get Company number: 4375084 Nugen, Steinberg, Synchro Arts and Sonnox through this. Be kind, and stay safe. /resolutionmagazine @resolutionmagazine NigelEditor May/June 2020 / 5 News Ethiopia’s OBN installs Lawo mc²36 Ethiopia’s public broadcaster Oromia Broadcasting Network (OBN) has chosen Lawo mixing consoles and I/O devices as the basis for new DSNG units with 4K workflow. Based in Adama, Ethiopia, OBN is Oromia State’s leading media organisation, serving a regional audience of 35m people, and viewers nationwide, via satellite. For their two 4K standard OB Grammy win at last for Lindberg units, OBN chose self-contained Lawo Until 2020, Morten Lindberg (Resolution V6.4) held the record for the most Grammy mc²36 mixing consoles, complemented nominations without a win — 36, with 28 of them in craft categories Best Engineered with Compact I/O units, for expanded Album, Best Surround Sound Album and Producer of the Year. Finally, at this year’s connectivity and use as remote stagebox Grammys, Lindberg carried off the award for Best Immersive Audio with the album LUX. solutions. OBN’s first DSNG to be delivered The music captured by Lindberg’s 2L label features Norwegian composers and is a versatile 12-camera unit with a full 12G performers and an international repertoire, released on Hybrid SACD, Pure Audio Blu-ray workflow, capable of handling a wide and as HiRes files. “Our ‘2L-cube’ microphone array is a consequence of the speaker variety of ambitious live broadcast configuration in the Auro-3D playback system,” Lindberg explains. “I always use DPA situations, equipped with a 40-fader mc²36 omnidirectional microphones in the main array… time of arrival, SPL and on-axis HF texture console and Compact I/O. is directly preserved in our 7.1.4 microphone configuration. Proportions are cubical and the dimensions could vary from 120cm for a large orchestral array down to 40cm in an intimate MPG: UK recording chamber musical context.” studios face closure The Music Producers Guild has surveyed the UK studio sector to discover the full extent of the impact during Covid-19 lockdown. Research indicates 48% of commercial recording studios could go out of business within three months, unless they receive support from the government. “The Look forward to SoundPro’21 UK has some of the finest recording studios in the world, but unless the government Hosted by the publisher of Resolution magazine and the IPS (Institute of Professional steps in with immediate support, half of Sound), SoundPro is an informal UK exhibition held every October with manufacturers, those studios won’t be around when things distributors, dealers and service providers.