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MSR
STUDIOS BECOMES FIRST NEW YORK CITY FACILITY TO PURCHASE CLASP®
FROM ENDLESS ANALOG
129th
AES CONVENTION, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, November 5, 2010 — MSR
Studios, a multi-room, full-service tracking and mixing complex
located just off Times Square in midtown Manhattan, has become the
first recording facility in New York City to purchase a CLASP®
(Closed Loop Analog Signal Processor) system from Endless
Analog (booth 617). CLASP is the critically acclaimed professional
audio product that invisibly merges real Analog Tape with Pro Tools
and other DAWs. It provides an elegant hybrid workflow that allows
real-time analog tracking and overdubbing under the fast and efficient
control of a familiar workstation interface. MSR purchased CLASP from
Vintage King Audio.
Bradshaw
Leigh, chief engineer at MSR Studios, which has a long and rich history
in the city as the former site of Legacy and, before that, Right Track
Recording, observes that regular studio clients such as the Roots,
Erykah Badu, Neil Young and others prefer to work on analog tape.
“But they all wind up doing the same thing, which is they all
track to tape and then immediately transfer to Pro Tools,” he
comments. “That gives them, in a sense, the worst of both worlds,
because they can’t fix what they’re working on and get
the analog sound at the same time. So they get the minimum benefits
of tape before they transfer to Pro Tools.”
But
with CLASP, says Leigh, “I think what’s great about it
is that they can get the analog sound and use their normal Pro Tools
workflow. It gives the absolute best of both worlds.”
Leigh
is looking forward to introducing his younger engineers to MSR’s
newly acquired CLASP system. “I can take a young engineer that’s
never touched an analog tape deck and have him not be intimidated
to use analog tape, because he can sit there and work with what he
understands, which is Pro Tools. I think what’s going to be
great about using CLASP is that they can get the analog sound and
use their normal workflow.”
Leigh
suspects that eighty to ninety percent of the people who want to incorporate
analog tape into their DAW workflow don’t realize that recording
and overdubbing can’t easily be done in real time, due to the
gap between the tape machine’s record and repro heads. “I
have had so many clients ask me to hook up an analog 24-track in front
of Pro Tools and put it in sync. You can’t do that; there has
to be a delay, otherwise you’re not getting the analog sound.”
CLASP eliminates that problem through its latency-free analog monitor
path.
MSR
Studios houses two tracking/mixing rooms, one featuring an SSL J Series
console and the other a Euphonix System 5, with another SSL J Series
console in a dedicated mix room. The CLASP unit will be available
for use in any of the studios, says Leigh: “We have it racked
up and pre-wired on DL connectors, so it can be pretty much inserted
anywhere.”
As
a designer and manufacturer of audio equipment, Leigh appreciates
the work that founder/president Chris Estes and Endless Analog have
put into the CLASP system, he says. “I was just so floored by
the elegant, perfect execution. It shows a lot of work, a lot of thought,
went into it.” But he does admit to some initial misconceptions
about the system. “When we had the demo I was not going to even
go into the room, because I figured it was an input switching box
and it had to be a kluge. I just happened to stick my head in and
saw how wonderfully it was done. As soon as I saw how well it was
executed I bought it in a heartbeat.”
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: EndlessAnalog_MSR.JPG
Photo Caption: Bradshaw Leigh, chief engineer at MSR Studios, pictured
holding his 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.