JULY 2016
Museek MAG
GAME CHANGER AMS NEVE
The main engineer at A.R.Rahman’s AM Studio is Mr. Sivakumar, when asked about his
experience working at AM studio on the Neve 88R
On H. Sridhar’s demise in Dec 2008 the studio
came under Sivakumar who till today is in charge of
AM Studios, one of the best facilities par
international standards in India.
You have been with ARR from the Roja days. When
did you move to AM Studio?
Actually I started working with Rahman Sir for the
film Gentleman. AM Studio is the brainchild of
Rahman Sir. It was fully functional from 2006 and I
was appointed as the Chief Sound Engineer for the
studio.
Sivakumar, Recording Engineer at AM Studios
Besides ARR who are the other prominent composers who love the Neve Sound and work regularly in
AM?
G V Prakash Kumar, Anirudh, Harris Jeyraj, D Imman, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Amit Trivedi, Salim
Suleiman.
After Shridhar, K. J. Singh has been working on a lot of
projects in AM Studio.
What is it that you like about the sound in the Neve
88R room?
Well the Neve 88RS in itself has its own signature
sound and the headroom is such a relief to work with.
You can really push the console and it still sounds so
smooth and sweet!
K. J. Singh
AMS Neve consoles is a favourite in Bollywood as well and the first studio in put in a Neve 88R was at
Yashraj studio. The other prominent Neve users in Mumbai include Sound Ideas, the Empire Studios to
name a few.
Followed by his journey ARR wanted to upgrade his Mix Room from the Euphonix System 5 and ICON
combo to a AMS Neve DFC console as this console was recommended to him by Jeff Foster and other
top mix engineers in Europe and Hollywood. This happened in 2015 when Audio Media Inc stated
distributing AMS Neve in India.
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