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Royal College of Music Goes Immersive with AX32 & MTRX

The Royal College of Music has installed a new Dolby Atmos immersive audio suite, making it one of the first universities of this tier to offer immersive audio production courses.

The control room features a 7.1.4 Genelec monitoring system and was designed and installed by our UK sales partner HHB. The college uses Dante AoIP technology to link the many live performance spaces to the studio, providing a quick, flexible way of live recording and multitracking performances.

The studio is centred around an Avid S6 control surface, which provides deep integration and control of Pro Tools – along with Logic Pro, Cubase, Ableton Live 11 Suite, REAPER, Sibelius and Dorico software – plus offers Dolby Atmos panner control and workflows for immersive mixing.

“Wherever you are in the College, you can always hear live music; and now with the new studio and signal routing, you can be recorded everywhere too,” explains Andy Denyer, technical lead on RCM’s studio project.

“We’ve seen increasing demand from students for high-quality monitoring and mixing facilities, and our new facility offers them not only this, but also a room in which they can experiment with Dolby Atmos immersive audio.”

The audio infrastructure is centred around an Avid MTRX, housed in a separate machine room. This combines audio from many sources and allows it to be routed to multiple destinations. The Control Room contains a DAD AX32, which handles all the local inputs and outputs.

Andy Denyer continues, “Not only are our talented musicians now able to record their performances, they are doing so using the latest production technology – such as Dante and immersive audio, Blackmagic video switching, distribution and capture hardware – giving them a great understanding of this world-class technology, perfect for their future careers.”

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