Engineer Reuven Amiel Gets Dangerous
Miami-Based Grammy-winning Mix Engineer Embraces the ‘Hybrid Studio’ with Dangerous Music 2-Bus summing, Monitor ST, BAX EQ and Dangerous Compressor
Reuven Amiel is a unique mix engineer who has come full circle from analog consoles and tape, to mixing only digitally in-the-box, to his studio today which combines the best of both worlds, a hybrid analog-digital setup, with a software DAW and plug-ins, analog summing, and integrated outboard gear. “If you are looking for flexibility, the Dangerous Music products give you freedom,” states Amiel unequivocally. “I don’t feel like a slave to a certain sound when I am mixing with Dangerous gear. I am not kidnapped by the sound of my summing or my compressor or my EQ. If I want color, I have the freedom to color the sounds in the way I want with other gear. That’s very important for me.” Amiel is working in his Miami, Florida-based studio with his ‘Hybrid’ setup featuring the Dangerous Music 2-Bus summing, Monitor ST monitoring and switching combined with the new Convert-2 DAC, the BAX EQ and the Dangerous Compressor.
Read More »Klaus Hill Goes Dangerous Down Under
Australia-based mix engineer Klaus Hill mixes hit after dance music hit for top stars and record labels using Dangerous Music D-Box summing/monitoring system and Dangerous BAX EQ
Over ten years ago dance mix engineer Klaus “Heavyweight” Hill made a pilgrimage from his home in the UK to Australia to work on some music. A few years after deciding to stay in the Land Down Under, he finally put together his ultimate portable mixing rig featuring the Dangerous Music D-Box analog summing and monitor controller as its centerpiece, and later added the Dangerous BAX EQ. Over the years, he’s mixed thousands of dance tracks for top artists including Felix Da Housecat, SCNDL, The Potbelleez, and Tom Piper, along with record labels Ministry Of Sound, Spinnin’ Records, Dirty Bird and more. Hill mixed the vocal and mastered the track, “Swing,” by Joel Fletcher featuring Savage, which won the Best Dance Music Record of the Year award from Australia’s prestigious APRA organization just this week..
Dangerous Music & Vintage King Event
Nashville community turns out in droves at Vintage King for the inside track on the Dangerous Compressor, BAX EQ and 2-Bus by multiple Grammy award-winning engineer F. Reid Shippen
After about an hour of introductory explanations of gear by Dangerous Music Sales Manager and Audio Alchemist President, Marek Stycos, Grammy award winning mix engineer F. Reid Shippen took the spotlight and walked the Nashville audience through his workflow for mixing with the Dangerous Music Compressor and BAX EQ. Nearly 100 of Nashville’s local artists, producers, engineers and studio owners turned out at Vintage King Audio’s headquarters just a stone’s throw from many top studios in Music City. The event was one of over 30 that Dangerous Music and Audio Alchemist has assembled across the US during 2014 involving stores, along with engineers that use Dangerous Music products; the Company plans to continue its seminars in 2015.
Read More »‘Chab’ Gets Dangerous in Paris
Dangerous Music equipment used extensively by Engineer Antoine Chabert (Chab) at Translab Mastering Studios including on Daft Punk’s 2014 Grammy-winning Album of the Year, ‘Random Access Memories’
At Translab Mastering Studios in Paris, the Dangerous Music collection of gear is quite extensive and just grew again with its addition of the newly released Dangerous Compressor. The busy French mastering studio’s engineer Antoine Chabert (aka ‘Chab’) has filled his studio with Dangerous gear as its core: the Dangerous Master paired with the Dangerous Liaison for his mastering console, the Dangerous Monitor paired with the Dangerous Source for complete monitoring and specialized playback, and the Dangerous BAX EQ and Dangerous Compressor for taming tracks and making records sound their best- such as the Grammy-winning “Lucky” from Daft Punk’s latest opus “Random Access Memories,” just one among hundreds of other albums and singles Chab has mastered.
Wyner Adds ‘Dangerous Compressor’
Cambridge-based engineer continues to grow his Dangerous Music-equipped studio adding the new Dangerous Compressor
Cambridge-based mastering engineer Jonathan Wyner with Dangerous Compressor
PJ Hanke Scores With Dangerous
Composer/Producer believes in the analog advantages of Dangerous Music gear
Composer PJ Hanke in his studio with the Dangerous 2-Bus, Monitor and MQ
Almost ten years ago, composer and producer PJ Hanke realized that ‘in-the-box’ mixes from his personal composing studio just didn’t have the quality of previous projects he had completed on large format analog consoles in his past work. His search for a solution led him to purchase the Dangerous 2-Bus analog summing mixer, the Dangerous Monitor and the Dangerous MQ to get him back to the sound he liked and remembered. “For nearly a decade, my studio setup of 2-Bus, MQ, and Monitor has allowed me to treat my Pro Tools HD rig like an analog setup with a proper mixing desk,” says Hanke. “The Dangerous Music gear is fantastic.” Read More »
Robert Vosgien Gets Dangerous
Famed Capitol Studios chooses a suite of Dangerous Music mastering gear to update studios
Robert Vosgien in his new Dangerous Music equipped Capitol mastering studio
When Capitol Records Mastering in Los Angeles decided to replace the old “disc cutting” consoles originally designed for mastering vinyl, they began to try out several new transfer consoles including the Dangerous Music Master with its companion devices the Liaison and Monitor that combine to create a complete ‘mastering suite’. After extensive testing and listening, Dangerous Music was the final choice. Once the new gear was purchased and up and running in mastering engineer Bob Vosgien’s studio, Capitol made plans to do a remodel to his mastering room as well. Over the past 25 years of mastering, Vosgien has worked with top artists such as James Taylor, Bob Seger, Green Day, The Goo Goo Dolls, The Wallflowers, Selena Gomez, Bush, Chris Botti and No Doubt, among many others.
Read More »Mastering Engineer Nate Wood
Multi-instrumentalist on drums, bass & guitar, flies high playing live and engineering in the studio with Dangerous Music gear
Mastering Engineer Nate Wood at his NY Kerseboom Mastering Studio
The journey from being a musician to becoming a mastering engineer began with Nate Wood making his own album and preferring the approach of recording and mixing the music himself, compared to going to a studio and trying to get someone else to make his music sound the way he was hearing it. After mixing his own album and projects for friends he found a new companion career to his live performances in mastering other people’s projects. Based in New York, Wood has outfitted his studio with the Dangerous Music D-Box for monitor control, reference D/A conversion, and analog summing for his mix path, along with the Dangerous Liaison programmable analog router with parallel processing for his six key pieces of outboard gear, two compressors and four EQs. The Liaison proved to be an elegant solution to his tedious practice of hand re-patching outboard gear for mastering sessions.
Read More »Mike Wells Gets Dangerous
Engineers Chris Dugan and Chris Lord-Alge team up to record and mix album, while Mike Wells masters the Billie Joe Armstrong production at his Dangerous Music equipped LA studio
Mike Wells in his Dangerous Music Equipped LA Mastering Room
Grammy-Winner F. Reid Shippen
Nashville based engineer wins two Grammys out of his seven 2012 award nominations and adds the BAX EQ to his extensive Dangerous Music gear setup
Engineer F. Reid Shippen in his Nashville studio with the Dangerous Monitor ST remote