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Digidesign’s Icon has found a home at multi-platinum hip-hop artist T.I.’s Echo Recording Studios. The George Augsperger-designed Studio A main room is booked months in advanced. This was the type of situation usually credited to SSL (Solid State Logic) console equipped studios but Digidesign’s ICON is now pulling some weight.
Elliot Carter, the chief […]

Digidesign’s Icon has found a home at multi-platinum hip-hop artist T.I.’s Echo Recording Studios. The George Augsperger-designed Studio A main room is booked months in advanced. This was the type of situation usually credited to SSL (Solid State Logic) console equipped studios but Digidesign’s ICON is now pulling some weight.

Elliot Carter, the chief engineer over at Echo Recording Studios said, “Everybody want to work here on the ICON”. As word in the A music scene spread that they got the ICON the phone began ringing off the hook. Not only from cats in Atlanta but Miami and other cities. If you look at how major recording studios have been falling because every Tom, Dick and Harry can create a professional sound recording in a home studio this is great news.

Visiting engineers at Echo Recording Studios have also been impressed. “Wyclef’s engineer, Serg, was in the other day and we were talking about the ICON,” Carter says. “He’s got this amazing studio—all analog—but he was raving about our place and how easy it was to go from room to room. He loves being able to walk right in and get to work. Another major mixer came up here from Miami, and he shipped two 16-space racks up, but he ended up using mostly plug-ins instead. He called last week and said it sounds like he mixed it on his own console.”

Should SSL be concerned? How will Digidesign’s Echo go up against the SSL Duality? Only time will tell.

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