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Top mixer Brian Malouf chose RSPE and a Digidesign ICON... "It's about follow through. Here we are two years later, Chris is still a good friend of mine, you guys are still interested in your client, and you're still here for me if I need help... It's like a partnership, a friendship."
By Jennifer Kae Producer and Mixer, Brian Malouf (Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince) worked with RSPE Audio Solutions to build a 32 fader ICON room in a studio on the side of his house. Brian talks about working with RSPE, Pro Tools, Plug ins and Microphones. Brian Malouf on RSPE Audio Solutions "What do you like about working with RSPE?"
Brian Malouf on choosing the Digidesign ICON D-Control A couple of years ago, Brian and his family moved from New York to Los Angeles and the plan was to set up shop in his home. The D-Control happened to be introduced the same week he bought his house. He shopped around for other workstations that had also just come out at the time, but found himself blown away by the D-Control surface and how it worked, between the control interface and the actual audio files was seamless.
"You have a lot of experience as a mixer working with large format consoles, what led you to Digidesign's D-Control for your own studio?" "When I saw the D-Control, I fell in love with it and thought it was just a very beautiful desk and thought it gave me a lot of options for mixing that I've never had before. Everything is automated, and it's all with knobs and faders and it felt very comfortable and it was very affordable" Brian explains. "Here I could have what I consider to be as elegant of a surface as an SSL in many ways, more versatile than an SSL but still as much fun to work on, and it doesn't produce all the heat from the 9k, and I don't have all the maintenance worries of all those caps and moving parts that a large format console has. It's just a better way to work with digital." You have your studio set up in your house. What made you decide to go that route? "Economics. The budgets were shrinking, and I could see that in 2005 already. So many cuts have been made, we as producers...had to bring our costs way down and try to have whatever funds were available go to the making of the record. I solely based it on an economic scale." Brian explained that with a low monthly lease payment of only a few thousand dollars he can afford to have a world-class studio in an annex on the side of his house. "Another benefit for me is that I've got three young children, and the long hours you keep as a producer kind of separates you from your family and being at home and putting in those long hours is a lot more manageable because you can go see who fell and scraped their knee, you can have dinner with them, you can read them a story at night. It helps my lifestyle a lot!"
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