New ORIGIN consoles are the latest upgrade to Full Sail's audio technology, in support of its Recording Arts Program. "After installing the ORIGINs...the students were learning them faster than the previous consoles in those rooms.”
Ever since it was founded in 1979, Full Sail University’s mission has been to prepare students across all disciplines for the technology they are likely to encounter when they find employment in the working world. To that end, Full Sail’s Recording Arts Program recently refreshed its audio technology, installing 10 Solid State Logic ORIGIN 32-channel analogue inline studio consoles and 11 SSL BiG SiX compact mixer/interfaces in a variety of teaching spaces to better reflect today’s typical music production workflows.
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The average age of students passing through Full Sail’s campus is 21, typically a digital-native cohort that has grown up creating on laptops. As a result, Full Sail’s Recording Principles course, the initial audio course for all degree programs within the university’s Audio School, includes an introduction to basic audio signal flow, and provides the first opportunity for most students to work on a large format analogue mixing console. The class is taught in two music production suites in Full Sail’s main studio complex that have both recently been equipped with SSL ORIGIN consoles. The rooms, which each feature a vocal booth, are also outfitted with outboard equipment, microphones, and instruments.
“They learn how to record in those rooms, working as a group of six students with one instructor,” says Darren Schneider, Director of Advanced Session Recording. “The first reports we got back after installing the ORIGINs was that the students were learning them faster than the previous consoles in those rooms.”
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Seven ORIGIN consoles have also been installed in the A Mix Lab, a large teaching space where students, used to working alone on their laptops, work in pairs on each desk and learn to collaborate. Another ORIGIN has been integrated into an adjoining classroom. The consoles were installed during the winter break. The learning environment further builds on the collaborative spirit of the introductory classes in the two ORIGIN-equipped production suites. “Our intent is to get students to see that other people have strengths and weaknesses and to utilize those strengths when they can,” Schneider explains.
“We want to get them in that collaborative mindset,” confirms Brandon Egerton, Education Director of Audio Arts. “To set them up in pairs like that is a big part of setting the tone for the rest of the degree program. We want to get them out of their comfort zones and open up to the prospect of working and collaborating with others.”
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