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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CLASP®
GIVES PRODUCER DAVE BRAINARD AND ENGINEER BRIAN KOLB GREAT SOUND AT
ANY SPEED
— Coming
off their first number-one album and single for country artist Jerrod
Niemann, Brainard and Kolb are applying CLASP®’s unique
true analog front end recording solution to tracks for up-and-coming
artist Ray Scott’s next record —
129th
AES CONVENTION, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, November 5, 2010 — The
remarkable CLASP® (Closed Loop Analog Signal Processor) system
from Nashville-based Endless
Analog (booth 617), has reinvented analog tape recording for the
digital age, and it has opened up other production techniques never
before possible: namely, processing digitally-recorded audio to analog
tape and back to the DAW, using variable tape speeds within the same
session. Analog tape remains the gold standard for sonic quality of
music recording, but tape’s linear nature had always meant that
it could run at only one of several standard speeds on any one set
of tracks – 7.5, 15 or 30 inches per second (ips). Producers
and engineers had to make a choice between using the slower 15 ips
to enhance low frequencies or 30 ips to accentuate upper mids and
high frequencies. But as producer Dave Brainard and engineer Brian
Kolb discovered on a recent project for promising new country artist
Ray Scott at Mix Dream Studios in Nashville, CLASP lets them apply
analog’s sonic magic at any speed to any individual track. This
offers a sonic advantage to every project and is something that generations
of analog recording professionals could only dream about. Thanks to
CLASP, that revolutionary ability is now a reality.
Just
coming off their first number-one debut country album (Judge Jerrod
and the Hung Jury) and number one debut country single (“Lover,
Lover”) for country artist Jerrod Lee Niemann, Brainard and
Kolb are working on Pro Tools systems in separate control rooms at
Mix Dream Studios. When overdubs are finished, they begin to run individual
tracks, up to four at a time, to a vintage Studer A807 MkII ½-inch
4-track deck via CLASP. “The advantage here is that we can take
a single track or group of tracks and listen to them individually
as they go to tape from the Pro Tools environment,” Brainard
explains. “We can process the bass guitar at 7.5 ips, greatly
adding to the low-frequency effectiveness, and the kick drum at 15
or 30 ips, which lets it retain the transient that gives it its punch.
We can also see how each track reacts to different kinds of analog
processing – tape speed, saturation, compression and so on –
and treat it for maximum effectiveness. The idea of being able to
have different tape speeds on the same song is incredible. Every track
gets exactly what it needs.”
Brian
Kolb, who mixed Scott’s record and others at Mix Dream using
CLASP, says he applies it to virtually every kind of track. “I
have clients who come in to listen to a mix and they tell me they’ve
never heard their vocals sound so good,” he says, noting that
a vocal for country and gospel singer Sonia Isaacs was recorded and
mixed with absolutely no EQ, with the only processing coming through
the CLASP system and tape. “She agreed that it sounded amazing,”
says Kolb. He also applied CLASP to the entire song on a tracking
session recently at Ocean Way Studios in Nashville. “We did
the drums at 30 ips and processed the lower-key songs at 15 ips. It
was amazing to have that kind of control with such great-sounding
processing.”
Brainard
says the options that CLASP offers are nothing short of incredible.
“No one could have imagined being able to use multiple tape
speeds on the same song years ago,” he says, adding that there’s
never an issue of synching tracks back up, thanks to CLASP’s
proprietary SST® sample synchronization technology. “CLASP
is just a fantastic system to work with. It puts a big old smile on
my face.”
About
CLASP
CLASP is the world’s first and only pro audio hardware that
lets you record on real analog tape with digital speed. CLASP provides
sample accurate tape synchronization with zero latency analog monitoring
while delivering a true Analog front end recording solution for Pro
Tools and other DAW’s. Already being used by top artists, producers
and engineers worldwide, CLASP is re-inventing analog for the digital
age. CLASP is employed by a diverse range of artists, engineers, producers
and facilities, including Lenny Kravitz (at his new Bahamas-based
Gregory Town Sound recording facility); Michael W. Smith; Denis Savage,
engineer for Celine Dion; Butch Walker (Panic at the Disco, Pink,
Avril Lavigne); producers Nathan Chapman, Dave Cobb, Chuck Ainlay,
John Fields and Tom “T-Bone” Edmunds; and studio facilities
such as Clearwater, Florida’s Cleartrack Productions, Los Angeles,
California’s Hemispheres Recording and Austria’s Prime
Studios. Analog tape manufacturers recommended by Endless Analog for
use with CLASP include ATR Magnetics and RMG International.
For
more information, please visit http://www.endlessanalog.com.
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Photo File: CLASP_Brainard_Kolb.JPG
Photo Caption: Dave Brainard (left) and Brian Kolb (right), pictured
with their CLASP® system from Endless Analog.
About
Endless Analog
Founded by inventor, musician and record producer Chris Estes, Endless
Analog is a Nashville-based company developing and manufacturing innovative
boutique audio processing products for the recording and broadcast
market sectors. The first of these products is the critically acclaimed
CLASP® (Closed Loop Analog Signal Processor). In developing CLASP,
Estes' vision was simple: to create a revolutionary product that would,
for the first time in history, bring user-friendly and cost-effective
analog tape recording to every studio environment around the world.
It is this bridging of worlds – analog and digital, old and
new, classic and modern – that defines Endless Analog's growing
product line and visionary approach to their craft.
Contact
information:
Endless Analog – Amy Becker – 3212 West End Ave, Suite
500, Nashville, TN 37203 – www.endlessanalog.com
– amy@endlessanalog.com
– 866-929-4446
Endless
Analog is exhibiting at booth 617 at the 129th AES Convention in San
Francisco, CA.