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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE
CONSERVATORY OF RECORDING ARTS & SCIENCES IS THE FIRST SCHOOL
TO BRIDGE HYBRID AUDIO PRODUCTION WITH ENDLESS ANALOG’S CLASP®
— Premier
audio recording, sound engineering and music production school takes
delivery of two CLASP® (Closed Loop Analog Signal Processor) units
so students can truly learn the art of analog recording with digital
workflow —
129th
AES CONVENTION, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, November 5, 2010 — The
Conservatory of Recording
Arts & Sciences (CRAS) has just taken delivery of two Endless
Analog CLASP® (Closed Loop Analog Signal Processor) systems
(booth 617) for their Tempe and Gilbert, Arizona campus facilities.
The Conservatory made the decision to add CLASP to its flagship A
Studios after Chris Estes, Founder/President of Endless Analog, the
Nashville-based manufacturer and distributor of the revolutionary,
critically acclaimed CLASP system, held two days of intense workshops
and seminars at the school back in May. The CLASP units will be used
in conjunction with CRAS’s SSL 4000 Series consoles, Studer
A-820 2-inch 24-track analog tape machines, Digidesign’s Pro
Tools HD and a host of other real-world recording gear. Additionally,
beginning in 2011, CRAS will become the first audio school to teach
and certify their students on the operation of CLASP.
“We
had CLASP here for a two-day demo, and it was immediately obvious
that this is the next step in hybrid audio production,” says
Conservatory Administrator Kirt Hamm. “The cost and time issues
that put analog tape on the back burner are nullified by CLASP. It
allows us to expose our students to the sonic palette that only tape
can offer while still maintaining the speed and capabilities of digital
audio workflow. We are proud to be the first audio recording school
in the world to certify students in the operation of CLASP.”
The
remarkable CLASP 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.
Based
in Tempe, Arizona, with a satellite campus in Gilbert, Arizona, The
Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences is a premier audio recording,
sound engineering and music production school teaching both analog
and digital recording concepts from day 1 of their 30-week program.
Every Conservatory student learns tape alignment on Otari and Studer
24-track tape machines, and the Conservatory has eight studios running
both 24-track analog tape and Pro Tools HD 2 TDM systems. Over 800
students a year go through the Conservatory's program, and in 2010,
the Conservatory had 27 students credited on 55 GRAMMY®-nominated
records with six GRAMMY winners on albums from Green Day, Booker T.
Jones, Beyoncé and more.
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: Pictured is Conservatory Administrator Kirt Hamm with
CLASP. Photo by Brad Reed.
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.