Mark Linett Records With API Gear
By DJ M on June 1st, 2006
In Brian Wilson/B. Boys
MARK LINETT has been the favored producer/engineer for numerous Brian Wilson and Beach Boys projects for many years.
According to a recent article/interview in MIX ONLINE Mark Linett uses an upgraded API 2488 console that started life as a simple 24-input stock black console. "The last big change I made came when I commissioned entirely new input modules for the board, which would give me everything that I wanted," Linett says. "So, now I have 12 echo sends and three stereo buses that are all switchable."
Building a studio around the API console was important, Linett explains, "because I am not a believer of mixing in the box. Even as I've graduated from [having] no Pro Tools to having a Pro Tools system for ancillary work, to a full-blown Pro Tools HD system, I still treat it as a tape recorder and I use the console for mixing. So, even some of these bigger projects where I have up to 62 channels of Pro Tools playing back, we'll sum a few things down, but I'll still bring it up on the API as individual channels and mix that way. I've never heard a digital summing system in a box that seems to work quite right. Maybe I'm old school, but I like to think of Pro Tools as a big, fancy, ultimate tape machine that will do all the things that a tape recorder can't."
For more information on API recording equipment, check these links:
DAN ALEXANDER AUDIO
PROAUDIO EUROPE
For more information on Mark Linett, check these links:
STUDIO EXPRESSO
API AUDIO
MIX ONLINE