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APPOINTMENTS Lawo announced the appointment of Johan Boqvist to the post of senior product manager, radio. Boqvist comes to Lawo with an impressive career in broadcast technology under his belt, having spent 20 years at Swedish Radio. He is a member of the board of the Swedish Audio Engineering Society and was a founding member of the taskforce responsible for defining the AES67 AoIP standard. He has also been an on-site technical consultant for Public Service Radio projects for the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, SIDA. Joining Swedish Radio in 2000, Johan helped the broadcaster transition from analogue to digital workflows and production systems at the national sport channel, P4. Atlantic Records UK announced Rich Castillo will join the company as A&R Director. He will report to label co-presidents, Briony Turner and Ed Howard. Castillo joins Atlantic from Sony/ATV Music Publishing, where he held the position of senior director of A&R. During his time there, he helped restructure the A&R department and signed Neave Applebaum, Pa Salieu, TMS, and Wayne Hector. Briony Turner said: “Rich has great ears and a brilliant track record for finding and creating massive pop hits. His experience and energy will make him a welcome addition to the A&R team. We’re looking forward to all the amazing music and incredible artists that we know he’ll be bringing into the fold.” Solid State Logic has appointed Marc DeGeorge to national sales manager, audio creation products. DeGeorge, who was previously US sales and marketing manager, music products, will continue to report to Phil Wagner, senior vice president, Solid State Logic, Inc. “Marc has been a key part of our sales team for almost a decade, and in his new role he will help extend our success into adjacent markets — particularly for our products such as SiX and our new interfaces,” said Wagner. “Through our relationship with Audiotonix, we have been able to substantially increase manufacturing capacity while retaining the quality SSL is known for.”
8 / May/June 2020
API Legacy AXS for Tokyo college An API Legacy AXS analogue console has been installed by Mix Wave, (API’s Japanese distributor of more than 15 years) into a Sam Toyoshima-designed recording studio at the Tokyo College of Music, part of a new campus dedicated to student performances at the prestigious establishment. This is the second Legacy AXS to be installed in Japan, the first going to the main control room of all-API facility Studio Tanta, in central Tokyo. TCM’s 48-channel console, customised to suit the college’s exact requirements, has
been supplied in a 64-channel frame, leaving space for expansion. The AXS features API’s Final Touch motorised fader automation for the 48 main faders and masters. In the middle of the desk is a 15-inch centre section which includes 5.1 monitoring. “We listened to the sound of the API Vision at NHK studio,” said recording engineer Tatsuo Umetsu, “we knew that putting together classical music with API was a great combination. I really like the microphone preamps; the sound is really natural, warm and rich”.
TIDAL streams Dolby Atmos
Nugen in Demand
Dolby Laboratories and Tidal are making Atmos Music available through Dolby Atmos-enabled sound bars, TVs and AVR home theatre systems. TIDAL HiFi users will need to connect their Dolby Atmosenabled living room devices to a streaming player running the most recently updated TIDAL app. Compatible devices include Apple TV 4K, Fire TV Stick 4K, Fire TV Cube, Fire TV Stick (2nd gen), Fire TV (3rd gen), and NVidia Shield TV or NVidia Shield TV Pro (2019 or newer models). Subscribers to the TIDAL HiFi tier with Android smartphones or tablets will have access to a growing library of music available in Atmos from Universal Music and Warner Music Group.
Demand Music, whose clients include Beyoncé, Jason Derulo, Cascada, Armin Van Buuren and Basshunter, has adopted a variety of Nugen Audio tools. “I’ve used SEQ-ST for precision EQing because it sounds really clean and musical at the same time “. Producer Chris Rudall utilises Nugen’s MasterCheck to ensure music reaches the listener as intended: “So much of what we do is going out to radio or streaming services, it’s difficult to make dance and club music sound right because the target is nightclubs and laptops all at the same time”. ISLst intelligent look-ahead limiter is also popular with Rudall: “It’s amazingly transparent… with Nugen’s ISLst, you just put it on and go”.
