Audient Knee Deep In Sound Training And Education

Three years after Deep Recording Studios upgraded their facility installing an Audient ASP8024 mixing console as part of a package from Stirling Trading UK, it has grown to become the main off-site annex for Kensington & Chelsea College.
Based around a fully designed industry standard studio facility, Deep runs a series of complex and detailed courses for people at all levels and have no restrictions for entry. The studio is currently completing three new levels of updated and replacement vocational qualifications, along with the City & Guilds Institute and several consultants.
Mark Rose, Studio Manager and Chief Engineer at Deep, made the decision to teach using a 96 channel analogue console, and continues to be delighted with the Audient, which suits the industry teaching methods and the studio's requirements. He explains, �Using the ASP8024 console ensures deep trainee�s continue to learn pro signal paths within the analogue domain alongside 48 track recording. An individual trained on an analogue desk is much better equipped to navigate around the many hybrid digital consoles and surfaces; not least because all digital consoles have taken their primary layouts and functions from all previous analogue designs.
"The imaging, EQ and gain stages of the console are beyond compare and all Deep trainees simply love working on it. It is particularly important to the City & Guilds trainees who are learning to fully utilise all features of the console with the new 7503 industry qualifications," he continued.
"Taking the Audient has proved a success on all fronts. Not only do we have one of the finest most reliable analogue consoles ever made but we have a very flexible working surface that is compatible with any musical genre. To date our own Audient console has been switched on around the clock for over three years and it has provided no down time," concluded Rose.
The new 7503 Sound Engineering qualifications will absorb many changes and updates that have occurred over the last 10 years and provide trainees with entry level essential employable skills across the many sectors seeking sound and technical staff.
The Deep Recording Trust is a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing disadvantaged youngsters in the London area with first-class training for jobs in the music and sound industries.
The Deep non-profit training program can be enrolled and accessed via www.deeprecrodingstudios.co.uk.