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Thomas Schneller

Blauen, Switzerland

Studio pictures:

First let me show some pictures. They are related to the bio, as they mark the now time. The setup:

Pic 1

The room is high:

Pic 2

and the view, important as well!

https://app.box.com/s/0piyqe1otrqbdfo9cw60t2jadon2nkie

there is a night view as well.... (;

https://app.box.com/s/tpjuco5h3gtq8lej7ze3l8t40qjmqjbf

There are some decades between this and the first studio, I used to work. This was a FOH room in a theater in Heilbronn Germany. There I started my first real job after finishing my education as a radio and television engineer.

Old fashion compared to now. Philips mixing console, 4 Studer Revox tape machines, K&H monitors, a BX spring reverb box and a collection of microphones.

I worked there for about 7 years, before I moved to Munich and changed into cinema and tv postproduction. There I did everything, needed for a film. Foley, speech, special effects, music and final mix.

Then I stumbled over something, changing my way to think about audio. A small 8 bit sampling device, connecting to my Amiga 500 commuter. I immediately knew, this will be the future of audio production. And not much more then a year later I started to build my first full digital postproduction studio, together with some partners. It was based on a Wave Frame / Audio Frame workstation with 8 tracks, 12 channel mixer and a 8 MB sampler. Not to forget a build in reverb unit.

Street price 170 000 Dollar.

I wish I would be able to share the faces of the first clients, coming into the studio and seeing not much more, then you see in the fist picture... (:

Anyhow, as soon as we started, they realized the advantages of this way to work and would not want to stop to try this sound, then that and over and over again. A thing, which was impossible before without spending hours of time to search the sound and line them up to the picture in the cutting room.

Ever since then, I am a digital audio enthusiast. And still I am.

Cause of personal reasons I stoped working as a professional sound engineer and earned my income in the industry in electronic related field.

And still I am. The other time I spend in my bedroom studio. Completely ITB.

The basis of that is:

- Apollo Twin
- EMES Quartz speaker
- UAD Satellite DSP
- SPL Auditor headphone amp
- Sennheiser HD650
- Apogee Groove DA and headphone amp if I am on the road
- MacBook Pro 13 inch
- Mac Mini 2018

And a huge collection of plugins.

- Waves
- Softube
- Eventide
- UAD
- SSL native plugins
- Zynaptiq
- Lexicon complete bundle
- Melda production
- Klanghelm
- Valhalla reverbs
- iZotope
- Slate Digital
- Kush
and a lot of others.

Main DAW is Studio One cause of the light speed workflow

Then

- Cubase
- Pro Tools
- Ableton
- Bitwig
- Reason
- Mixbus
- UAD Luna recording system

As you can see, I can't stay away from software.

So what I am doing with it? Mixing, Mastering, sometime I grab my interfaces and go on the road for a live mix of a band or to do a live recording. From time to time I do some post production. And I am doing audio hard- and software beta tests.

And still I am a enthusiast when it comes to trying new audio technologies. The end is for sure not reached and more and more awesome things are developed.

And yes, I need to try them all!

(:

Thanks for reading

Have a nice time

Thomas

• This topic was modified 3 years ago by Thomas Schneller.
• This topic was modified 3 years ago by Thomas Schneller.
• This topic was modified 3 years ago by Thomas Schneller.

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