Vince Lawrence: 8,000 Square Feet of iTunes Pages: 1, 2, 3  RA:
You had just installed a Digidesign Control-24 console last time
we talked. How has that worked out?  VL: We've removed the big
boards from our room and have been operating with the Control-24
as our primary work surface all year—and we gave up almost 50
channels of analog input to do so! That's a huge sacrifice. But,
let's just get to the point here: it's all about the plugins. We
automate so much using the Waves stuff and plugins like McDSP's
FilterBank that the new board is a huge improvement for us. We
really need the C-24's ability to assign all those synth and
audio plugin parameters to individual knobs. It's great to see
the tactile side of engineering becoming important once again.
Studio Electronics SE-1X  Studio Electronics, long known for its
analog synthesizers, is now in the plugin world with the SE-1X,
a Lawrence favorite for bass sounds.  RA: What other gear gets a
big workout at Slang?  VL: As I mentioned, we use Reason a lot,
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