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December 2016
January 17
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into play few songs for Music Composer Siddhartha ’ s film for Director Selvamani , this recording happened at Audio Media , my home studio version at that time . That was probably triggered him to plan his own studio in his house .
By that time we started our sales division of Audio Media and we became India ’ s first distributor for Steinberg , Harris is one among my first customers for Cubase and from then on our friendship and our quest of the perfect recording studio started .
His first studio was on the ground floor and slowly expanded to the first floor where he expanded two recording areas , one to record a small string section and the other to record Percussion .
I still remember that day when we sat on the swing that used to be on the third floor of the same building and discussed on having a real state of the art recording studio in the same Hall .
The acoustics for this studio was a joint effort of both of us , we used a book for reference and we started to build the layers for a Room in Room constructions . Harris always wanted to be different so the wood choice for that studio was rosewood . Rosewood was predominantly used in the floor , wall paneling and ceiling . We also imported a couple of diffusers from the USA to create that state of the art studio .
When it came to equipment choices we wanted to set-up a studio that is quite different from another studio at that time . So we decided on a Digidesign ICON , as all of you know the ICON is a Controller for Pro Tools but by then Harris was a Logic Pro user , he made this shift earlier when he wanted to be compatible with A . R . Rahman for whom he was a lead programmer for some time .
We came up with a solution to User Digidesign Icon with Pro Tools 7 as a powerful digital mixer . So the setup required a lot of I / O . We had three Digidesign 192 I / O interfaces inputting a total of 48 analog inputs , The outputs were all going through
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