NASHVILLE, TN, October 6, 2010 —
The Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences (CRAS)
has just taken delivery of two Endless Analog CLASP®
(Closed Loop Analog Signal Processor) systems 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.
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