Merry Wives of Strong Hire

Merry Wives of Stronghire

Rounding off 2006, December saw Strong Hire undertake another successful live recording job, this time for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s extravagant musical interpretation of The Merry Wives of Windsor, starring Dame Judi Dench and Alistair McGowan.

Strong Hire installed a powerful Pro Tools HD system equipped with SSL’s new Xlogic Delta Link MADI HD interface; a handy 1U box capable of recording 64 channels of digital audio directly into Pro Tools without the need for any other audio interfaces. Not only did this compact setup work seamlessly with the theatre’s Digico front of house console, it also saved

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a great deal of potential back pain – no one fancied the lift up the stairs with anything much bigger!

With this compact and powerful system, AIR Studios engineer Nick Wollage was able to meet a ridiculously tight deadline – install the rig on Monday, record the show each night until Thursday and edit, tune and mix in between performances to produce a CD for the mastering house on Friday afternoon. All to make sure that there was a shiny recording of the production for the press performance on Tuesday. Now that’s not bad going.