Musician, producer and mixing engineer Jyrki ‘Speedy’ Saarinen installed an Audient ASP4816 mixing console in his Helsinki studio last summer as part of a renovation project.
Replacing an old console, the arrival of the new Audient at Mediagents ensured Speedy and the rest of the team could continue creating music for TV series and making records for independent labels.
Speedy splits his time equally between his studio and working for Finnish National Broadcasting Company, YLE. Here he has mixed and recorded hundreds of different events for them over the years - from music festivals to sport events, for broadcast on TV and radio. He mixed for the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki, the first surround sound broadcast in Eurovision history.
When choosing gear for his own studio, he had a very clear idea of what he was after:
“We needed an analogue console for recording and especially for mixing. We searched the market for the alternatives and noticed that ASP4816 fitted our needs well,” he explains. “The Audient signal chain including the EQ’s have turned out to be very useful. They don’t add noise or any other unwanted character. You can run the mixes quite hot and it sounds good.”