Focusrite Lets Auralation Music Connect All The Dots in the Studio for Reality TV Sound Production and Beyond

Focusrite Lets Auralation Music Connect All The Dots in the Studio for Reality TV Sound Production and Beyond posted: 22/04/2019

Auralation Studios in Knoxville, TN, employs Focusrite technology products to create a highly flexible signal transport and control infrastructure to support its varied work.

Knoxville music production company relies on Focusrite Red 8Pre, Red 4Pre and Clarett OctoPre to create a highly flexible signal transport and control infrastructure to support its varied work, which includes work for top cable networks

Lifetime, Oxygen, Discovery and Spike TV - particularly the wildly popular crime-reality shows such as Homicide Hunters, Murder Comes To Town and Killer Couples. Those and other shows are part of the diverse range of work done by Auralation Music at its Auralation Studios in Knoxville, where Focusrite technology products let them use those studios to their maximum.

In might not be widely known, but Knoxville, Tennessee, is a hub of production activity for today's cable TV landscape, including work for networks like Lifetime, Oxygen, Discovery and Spike TV - particularly the wildly popular crime-reality shows such as Homicide Hunters, Murder Comes To Town and Killer Couples. Those and other shows are part of the diverse range of work done by Auralation Music at its Auralation Studios in Knoxville, where Focusrite technology products let them use those studios to their maximum.

We use the Red 8Pre for just about everything, says Auralation owner Paul Jones, referring to Focusrite's Red 8Pre 64-In / 64-Out Thunderbolt 2 and Pro Tools | HD compatible audio interface. Along with a Red 4Pre 58-In / 64-Out Thunderbolt 2 and Pro Tools | HD compatible audio interface and a pair of Clarett OctoPre 8-channel mic-pre's, Focusrite connectivity and interface technology provides Auralation's many roles with the flexibility they need to maximize productivity and efficiency.

We do everything from tracking bands to ADR, Foley and scoring for television, to podcasting - all within a single day, says Jones, whose previous career included supervising the music and post-audio department for Scripps Networks. The Focusrite gear lets us really leverage our entire facility effectively.

For instance, they will run Cat-5 cables to any number of the rooms that came with the cavernous former concrete plant that Auralation has occupied in Knoxville since it was formed in 2010, with the Red 8Pre taking in drums or guitar amps in the rooms - now used as iso booths - over Dante , with near-zero latency. The Focusrite gear is also used to move sessions between the main, 1,000-square-foot Studio A, Auralation Music's 5.1 mix room (known as the DAW room), and two smaller production rooms, helping keep production churning for what are now over 7,000 underscores for reality based programming. We can bring the Red 8Pre out into the studio with us during sessions and set up a completely separate control station, instead of having to run back and forth between the studio and the control room for many applications, or to let our DAW room act as the master control for both studios, Jones explains. We're also using the Red 8Pre and Red 4Pre for our Aviom monitoring system that we use as the cue system for recording.

With so many applications for the Red 8Pre and Red 4Pre units, Jones says the Clarett OctoPre 8-channel mic-pre is necessary to provide even more I/O for the facility. The Red 8Pre is the hub for all of it, but all of the Focusrite units together create a flexible environment that really lets us use our studios to the max.

About Focusrite Pro

Focusrite Audio Engineering has pioneered professional audio recording technology spanning almost three decades. Focusrite Pro, the company's Professional and Commercial division, meets the demands of recording, post-production, live sound and broadcast professionals. It consists of RedNet, a fully modular audio-over-IP solution, and the Red range, Focusrite's flagship multi-format interfaces, along with the heritage ISA range of microphone preamplifiers and analogue signal processors. Focusrite Pro products have been developed to meet the needs of the most demanding applications through a relentless focus on ease of use, quality and reliability. Focusrite is based in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, with offices in Los Angeles and Hong Kong.

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