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BUTCH WALKER GOES BACK TO HIS ANALOG TAPE ROOTS WITH ENDLESS ANALOG’S
CLASP®
— Butch Walker adds
CLASP® to his Santa Monica studio, allowing him to record
using analog tape while enjoying the convenience and efficiency of
digital workflow —
129th
AES CONVENTION, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, November 5, 2010 — As
a songwriter, musician/artist, producer and engineer, the Georgia-born
Butch Walker has carved out a unique niche and has firmly established
himself as a tour-de-force in the music industry. Walker has penned
numerous hits for artists like Avril Lavigne, Sevendust and Fall Out
Boy. As a producer/engineer, he is credited with works by Katy Perry,
Pink and Weezer, as well as being Rolling Stone’s 2005 producer
of the year. And as a musician/artist, he has received critical acclaim
for his work with Marvelous 3, his DVD Live at Budokan, and his studio
records The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and The Lets-Go-Out Tonights
and Sycamore Meadows. His latest release, I Liked It Better When You
Had No Heart, features Walker and a new backup band The Black Widows.
Recently,
as part of his new Santa Monica recording studio, Walker purchased
Endless Analog’s
CLASP® (Closed Loop Analog Signal Processor) system (booth 617),
which uniquely integrates analog tape machines into the digital audio
production workflow. Walker purchased CLASP from Vintage King Audio.
“I grew up cutting tape and I missed the sound and art form
of it,” stated Walker. “Being the proud owner of Studer
A800 MK III, I sadly had it in storage for ten years because it just
slowed down my workflow, so I gave it up to just go digital. But still
to this day nothing’s ever emulated tape the right way, so I
was extremely happy when I finally heard CLASP.” Walker’s
first demo of CLASP was at the studio of his friend and noted producer
John Fields. “I went over to John’s studio and he demo’d
it for me,” Walker commented. “I really like being able
to have everything hit tape first, not only because of the audio quality,
but it’s no fun having to record everything onto tape and then
dump it at a different time, it takes up the whole day. And so with
CLASP, I liked the idea of it constantly dumping on to Pro Tools without
having sync issues. I was also able to hear the actual audio again
for the first time in years coming off of tape, and that’s enough
to sell you!”
Walker
will be using CLASP with his new 24-channel custom-made Tonelux Designs,
Ltd., recording console and his selection of vintage analog tape recorders.
“I’m going to be using CLASP with three tape machines.
I’ve got an Otari MTR-90III, a Studer A800 MK III, and then
I’ve got an ATR-102, which is an Ampex ½” machine.
CLASP is going to allow me to get all the benefits of analog tape
with the convenience of digital.”
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 Caption: Butch Walker, Left, and Jake Sinclair, Right. Endless
Analog’s CLASP® sits on a vintage Neve console.
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.