Focusrite Pro

Vintage King Nashville is excited to welcome our friends at Focusrite Pro to the showroom for an immersive afternoon of gear demos and good times. Join us on Friday, May 19 from 12-6 PM for a live Dolby Atmos mix demo, hosted by special guest, GRAMMY Award-winning mixer and mastering engineer Rob Burrell (Josh Groban, Carrie Underwood, Michael W. Smith).  Continue reading →

Opened in 2015 as part of the Mike Curb College of Entertainment Music Business, Belmont University’s Johnson Theater is a 250-seat, multi-purpose space that serves the Motion Pictures, Media Studies and Audio Engineering departments. Acting as a full, theatrical-sized mix stage, the Johnson Theater was the first university-based theater in the world equipped to mix in Dolby Atmos. Continue reading →

As more and more audio creators make the leap to working in Dolby Atmos, many pro audio manufacturers are working to streamline the gear and set-up involved. Focusrite has been at the forefront of this movement by releasing interfaces and controllers that make it possible to have an Atmos rig in any room. Vintage King recently sat down with Focusrite Pro's North American Sales Manager Dave Rieley and Marketing Manager Tom Edwards to talk about configuring a Dolby Atmos set-up with Focusrite studio tools. Continue on for our conversation and learn how with a few simple pieces of gear, you can be ready for the Atmos revolution. Continue reading →

March is here and you know what that means... NEW GIVEAWAY TIME! That's right, every month we team up with one of your favorite pro audio brands to give one lucky winner a special gift. This month Vintage King and Focusrite Pro are giving away a Focusrite ISA 428 MkII mic preamp and ADN8 card. The Focusrite ISA 428 MkII offers up four of the brand’s prestigious ISA-series transformer-based preamps in a 2U rackmount unit. Throw in the ADN8 card we’re also giving away and you instantly have eight additional channels of I/O. This works perfectly for tracking a few sources on its own or for adding expanded I/O to pretty much any interface with Dante or ADAT connectivity. Continue reading →

Since so many of us are cooped up inside, Focusrite Pro thought this was the perfect time to do a livestream. During the At Home, At Home event this past Thursday, the brand showcased its expansive range of gear and gave working engineers the floor to talk about how they use it in their studios. Producer and engineer Garth Richardson (Red Hot Chilli Peppers / Rage Against The Machine) talked specifically about how he transitioned into a home studio set-up with a RedNet-powered rig. There was also a panel discussion featuring world-class mix engineers Rob Burrell and Steve Genewick discussing how they are mixing for Dolby Atmos in their home studio spaces. Continue reading →

Since it was started by Rupert Neve in 1985, Focusrite has spent over three decades creating essential tools for music creators. That legacy lives on today, as the brand continues to evolve its interface offerings for different kinds of recording studios. Focusrite Pro has played a pivotal role in this evolution. Focusrite Pro has added four new products to its lineup today, including the RedNet R1 desktop remote controller, Red 8LINE interface, and newly updated versions of the RedNet D16R MkII and RedNet A16R MkII interfaces. In this Buyer’s Guide, we’ll break down this new gear and explain the differences between each line of Focusrite Pro solutions. Before we get too far into the tech behind these groundbreaking designs, let’s talk a little about the start of Focusrite and how Focusrite Pro came to be a part of the company. Let's go back to the 1980s! Continue reading →