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Neumann U87AiLynx: Featured Artist - Universal Music Publishing
One morning, a little while ago, an email found its way into Source Distribution's inbox. It was from a Rick Baxendale: none other than the Studio Manager for Universal Music Publishing's in-house studio at their flagship London Fulham Broadway building. Here is the email they received, in Rick's own words:
"We recently added an extra live room to our studio and decided to upgrade some of the equipment at the same time. I've always liked the functionality of Pro Tools HD hardware but never really been a fan of the audio reproduction of their interfaces, so when we bought a new Pro Tools HD Native card we were looking at other manufacturers for the A/D D/A part of the equation.
In the end it was a shoot out between a Lynx Aurora and an Apogee Symphony. The Lynx Aurora 16 won - partly due to the cost, but also due to the fact that I found the Apogee had more bells and whistles than I needed or wanted.
I REALLY, REALLY love the sound of the Aurora 16 and find it the perfect partner to the HD native card. It does everything I need seamlessly with no fuss - that's how it should be!
I find the Aurora sonically superb with a different more creamy flavour compared to an Apogee and would seriously recommend anyone looking at an Apogee or any of the Avid interfaces to check the Aurora out instead."
Keen to learn more, Source headed down to Universal's studio to meet Rick and put such high praise into context. Passing posters of Lily Allen, Coldplay, The XX and Robbie Williams, Rick brought us to their very well presented in-house studio and the Pro Tools system in question. There, sat below a PreSonus Central Station, was the Aurora 16...read more.
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