Recording Studio in Italy Hosts Joey DeFrancesco

Spazi Sonori recording studio located in Livorno, Italy, recently hosted jazz organ great Joey DeFrancesco. The Grammy award winning bandleader brought his group into the studio while on a European tour to record nine new tracks for an upcoming release.

The studio features a Pro16 Monitor Mixing System with multiple A-16II Personal Mixers for use as a cue system. Prior to the installation of the Aviom system, cue mixes were sent to a simple headphone amp and had no user control other than overall level. According to engineer and studio owner Alessio Barbieri, "As a recording engineer and studio owner specializing in acoustic music, I've always been short of aux sends for cue mixes for the musicians in the studio. During takes it was a lot of work for me and there was a lot of down time. That's why I'm using the Aviom system now, directly feeding inputs from my digital console. I've found the Aviom system very useful in avoiding the 'more me' volume wars."

The all-digital studio features a 56-channel Yamaha® 02R/96 console in the control room, and a grand piano in the live tracking space. Barbieri adds, "Every musician has his own 16-channel digital mixer which is very simple to use. Everyone makes his own headphone mix, leaving me to concentrate on mic placement and sound during tracking. Everybody is relaxed and they forget about the headphones. It's less work for me; the Aviom system is one of the best investments I've made for my studio."