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Composer David Baerwald chose RSPE Audio Solutions for his Apogee Symphony and GigaStudio PC Systems. "RSPE understands the world of people that are actually not hobbyists - they're doing this on a daily basis ... They're just really good!"
David Baerwald has scored about a dozen films, a network TV series as well as making pop records and documentaries. He scored hits in the mid 1980s with David Ricketts in their group David & David, notably the track "Welcome to the Boomtown" from their album "Boomtown." He released his solo debut, Bedtime Stories, in 1990. His second album, 1993's Triage, received critical praise. He collaborated with Sheryl Crow on her debut Tuesday Night Music Club. David penned "I'm Nuthin'", which was sung by Ethan Hawke in the 1994 movie "Reality Bites". David received a Golden Globe nomination for "Come What May; on the Moulin Rouge! soundtrack. In 2002, he released "Here Comes the New Folk Underground." David is currently working on a documentary series on legalized prostitution in Nevada by the Gantz Brothers. "It's very sad, but very human", David says. He's also doing an album with David Ricketts, the David and David album. David is running an Apogee Symphony system and his studio consists of five Gigastudios, Logic, Neve, Telefunken, and Universal Audio Mic Pres. These go into his compressors and equalizers, including some Fairchilds made by David Bock. He has a Manley compressor and Pultec EQs, and a Muse Receptor for VST Instruments. He also has some outboard effects gear that he can now use as plug ins by using them with hardware inputs on the Apogees, "It's really a great thing to be able to do." "What do you like about working with RSPE?" "It's level of knowledge and experience and understanding of the demands of working professionally. RSPE understands the world of people that are actually not hobbyists - they're doing this on a daily basis ... the knowledgeability that you find there ... and a willingness to support the products that they sell.... their relationships with manufacturers, who then you can contact through RSPE and not get lost in that sort of vortex of trying to get a hold of somebody who knows what's going on… "...Chris Bolitho is able to create those relationships and actually introduce you to the people that are backing up the equipment that you're purchasing…There's a level of calm and professionalism and quality and the assurance that they're not going to abandon you to something that's not working half way through an install. They're just really good!"
What made you choose the Apogee Symphony system? "Reliability, latency, and sound primarily. I really wanted to start working at 192k and there were very few really viable options for that. Apogee stuff is something that I've always been really impressed by." How did that improve your workflow? "In terms of being able to use the outboard equipment as easily as Iwas using plug ins, you can actually use the real fairchild now instead of just the plug in. Not that there's anything against the plug ins, but it's nice to be able to have a real one, and I happened to have them. I wasn't using them until I got the Apogee system because it was just too much of a pain to patch things in the way it was before." David's favorite plug ins are the Universal Audio UAD-1 Card plus the plug ins. He also really likes the Native Instruments plug ins. For of synthesizers, he uses the FM-8 by Native Instruments."The Arturia Moog Modular, MiniMoog and the CS-80 are also really good." Which mic do you use most often when recording vocals? "I have a [Telefunken] 251 over here, and I use a U67. I tend to go for big barreled condensers for vocals for the most part. Without headphones on we'll use a [Shure] SM7 which has really good off-axis rejection, so you can actually get away with having a loud track in the room while the singer is singing and not have a huge amount of bleed on the track." For electric guitars and brass, David likes the Royer ribbon mics. For acoustic guitars or mandolins or fiddles, he tends to use Neumann KM54's. "You can get away with a lot these days with five or six really good mics. In fact, I know a lot of people that claim you can do whatever you need to do with one 251 and a good EQ." David uses the Dynaudio BM Series speakers. He thinks that they are like the new NS-10s but they sound a lot better. "I na sense they're sort of like the new NS-10, because they're very flat, they're very transparent, and they tend to represent well what's going on, especially in a nearfield environment… So you get very few surprises [on what you will hear] on other systems…They sound good and they don't fatigue you, and they don't fake things, it's a very accurate listening environment." David on Speakers
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