JOHN MCBRIDE PURCHASES SECOND AND LARGEST EVER API LEGACY FOR BLACKBIRD STUDIOS
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE: In the five short years since its birth, Blackbird Studio in Nashville has emerged as one of the recording industry's treasures: a studio built from the bottom up to uncompromising standards.
Owned by John and Martina McBride, a powerhouse duo with complementary
talents on both sides of the microphone, Blackbird is home to the finest
collection of recording equipment and the greatest acoustics in Nashville.
Artists such as Sheryl Crow, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, the Red Hot Chili
Peppers, Jewel, Dolly Parton, and, of course, owner Martina McBride have cut
chart-topping records at Blackbird.
One of Blackbird's most popular rooms is Studio B, which features a
48-channel, 96-input API Legacy Plus console with motorized faders. In fact,
the API Legacy Plus is so popular, John McBride felt it was time to replace
the Trident console in Studio D with his second API Legacy Plus console. The
new console is the largest API Legacy Plus console ever built, with 96
channels, 192 inputs and 200 faders - 100 of them moving. While McBride had
no ill words for the Trident, the engineers and producers who book time at
Blackbird wanted the API sound. And because Blackbird's mission is to meet
and exceed its client's expectations, the decision was simple.
Studio D is huge and features three amp lockers and seven recording spaces
with impressive acoustics and a "vibe" that inspires emotional performances.
The expansive main room has dark walnut floors, stone walls, and modular"flutter free" panels, all illuminated by uber-cool hanging red lamps that
meld the feel of the recording space with the studio's amazing lounge.
In addition to its sibling in Studio B, the new Legacy will join a host of
other API outboard equipment that holds prominent places in the racks of all
six of Blackbird's studios and which are also perennial client favorites.
Among them are numerous all-discrete 550A three-band EQs, 550B four-band
EQs, and 560 ten-band graphic EQs, 512C mic pres, 3124+ mic pres, and 7600
channel strips, along with 2500 stereo compressors with the API 2520 op-amp
and optional "feed forward" circuitry. The "API sound" is prominent at
Blackbird!
John McBride said, "We're excited about putting the new API Legacy Plus in
at Blackbird. As there are fewer and fewer analog console manufacturers, API
will only increase in popularity. I'm confident that a lot of hip records
are going to be made on the new console in the years to come."
Automated Processes, Inc. remains the leader in analog recording gear, with
the Vision surround production and Legacy Series recording consoles, the DSM
Series rack-mounted mixers, and the classic line of modular signal
processing equipment.
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