Hal Winer, owner of BiCoastal Music in Westchester, New York, chose Daking mic pres to maintain a pristine signal path. OSSINING, NEW YORK: BiCoastal Music in tony Westchester County, north of Manhattan, has just completed an architectural and acoustical remodel by the renowned Russ Berger Design Group that catapults the recording studio from a high-quality project room to the top tier of world-class facilities. With BiCoastal now featuring the very latest digital mixing console and 5.1 surround speaker control technologies plus RBDG custom monitoring, owner Hal Winer needed to seek out signal processing to maintain that high-end signal path, and found that Geoffrey Daking & Co. offered the ideal solution. "I have four of his Mic-Pre/EQs - two of them are the B model - and I have two of his FET Compressors," Winer reports. The Daking gear is by no means a recent discovery, he notes. "I had the original two Daking Mic Pres in the old studio. They're my favorite pieces of gear." Explaining his choice of Daking equipment, he says, "The build quality was the major thing that got me right up front. They're built like tanks. There are very few other pieces of gear in my studio that just feel as sturdy as these pieces felt. The build quality, the component quality, the care and attention to detail - there are very few things you can compare them to." Winer reports that he was also drawn by the ergonomics of the units. "The way things are labeled, and the placement of the labels on each of the individual knobs, makes it very easy to see exactly what I'm doing. When I go to other pieces of gear, I really have to concentrate on the labels. They're underneath the knob so you can't see them, they're clustered together and the font is too small. I don't have to think about using Geoff's units - it's intuitive. I go to them, I know exactly what they do and how they work, and if I need to look at a value it's right there in front of me." And let's not forget the all-important audio quality. "They're completely transparent when you want them to be, and they add interesting colors when you need them to," says Winer. "It's just awesome stuff. I can't say enough about it." The Geoffrey Daking Mic-Pre/EQ and FET Compressor both feature all-discrete transistor circuitry, transformer-balanced inputs and outputs, and Class "A" amplifiers for optimum performance with any microphone. Stainless steel construction, sturdy aluminum knobs, and features such as gold bi-furcated relay switch contacts ensure durability, noise immunity, and trouble-free operation. Winer reports that he has reinvented BiCoastal Music to attract a specific clientele. "This is not a commercial studio," he explains, "it's a boutique studio and it's really by invitation only. It's a high-end studio for high-end engineers who are used to working in New York City and commuting from Westchester." He continues, "I've provided a location here that's comparable to those available in New York City, but local to them. So I really had a responsibility to provide equipment that was going to rival what you would find in Manhattan, and I had to make some careful choices. There's a lot available to me, and I had no qualms about offering Daking gear up, because you just can't beat it." |
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