RECORDING - SPL congratulates five clients on ten Grammy productions and eleven nominations

Niederkruechten, Germany, 23/02/07 – At this year‘s 49th Grammy Awards, the Dixie Chicks (five Grammys for “Not Ready To Make Nice“) and the Red Hot Chili Peppers (four Grammys for “Stadium Arcadium“) rocked the show.

SPL clients lent their production skills to both of these albums in addition to further Grammy winning and nominated projects: Richard Dodd, Ryan Hewitt, Mark Linett, Darcy Proper, and Andrew Mendelson.

Richard Dodd, a true SPL fan, was engineer and mixer for the Dixie Chicks‘ “Not Ready To Make Nice“. “The Transient Designer is one of the only pieces that I cannot do a session without ... I must have it in the room everytime I work on a project.“

Ryan Hewitt and Mark Linett (Beach Boys) were the engineers and mixers on “Stadium Arcadium“, and both are Transient Designer fans, too.
Ryan Hewitt: “The Transient Designer has changed my working life. I've owned my TD for about 5 years, and I absolutely cannot work without it. The drum sounds on the new Red Hot Chili Peppers are all about Transient Designers. Kick, snare and toms all had TDs on the inserts to make the drums really cut through the mix. Nothing else can achieve the kind of clarity that the TD can. Sometimes I can go for one in lieu of an EQ! I've also had great success on piano, guitars, bass and percussion ... Needless to say, they rock my world! Thanks for making such a kick-ass product!“

Darcy Proper (formerly Sony Mastering, New York, now Galaxy Studios, Belgium) was the surround mastering engineer for “Morph the Cat“ from Donald Fagen, which won the Grammy for the best Surround Sound Album. Darcy Proper works with SPL‘s MMC1 console and a set of three PQ 2050 Mastering EQs in the Galaxy Studios.
“When I was still in the US, I visited Bob Ludwig and he showed me the SPL console. I was very impressed by its sound. Upon my wish Sony ordered the smaller versions in stereo and surround configurations (DMC and MMC2 consoles). And when I arrived here at the Galaxy Studios, I was very pleased to be working on the MMC1 mastering console.“

Andrew Mendelson of Georgetown Masters in Nashville had eleven of his recent projects nominated for a Grammy in this year‘s event alone. Andrew is an owner of the SPL MasterBay 2 routing system and the new Passeq, a unique EQ with 144 passive coil filters and 120 V make-up gain stages.

Transient Designer: http://www.soundperformancelab.com/Transient_Designer/in_short.html

SPL Mastering Series (MMC1, MMC2, DMC, PQ 2050): http://www.soundperformancelab.com/indices/mastering_E.html

Passeq: http://www.soundperformancelab.com/passeq/2595_inshort_E.html

Grammy Awards: http://www.grammy.com

SPL – Sound Performance Lab, Germany, http://www.soundperformancelab.com