I really liked the packaging, the way it was built, and the MADI options that were offered with this system. KS: So you approached DirectOut about trying their ANDIAMO.MC and AD/DA?ĬHARBONNEAU: I approached DirectOut because I needed to run some tests and since I have a history of not reading spec sheets, I thought I’d try it. Of course, the MADI fiber system would need to interface with our Neve 8058. So in order to compensate, I decided to create a type of ‘trick’ digital interface by using a MADI fiber system to replace (as needed) the long analog audio copper snake that I had been using. ![]() In large part this is due to changes in security but also to advances in digital technologies. Over the years, the distance between the stage and where Le Mobile is able to park has increased. What made you chose the Andiamo.MC over the competition?ĬHARBONNEAU: It’s simple. You have been recording live music for more than 40 years. KS: Which brings me to the subject of our interview. So everything I do, or have ever done with respect to the equipment that I’ve used, has been grounded in this ideal.” And so I begin: “Andiamo, let’s talk equipment.” And he offers me a philosophy: “You know… my approach to recording live music has stayed the same through the years in that I’ve always tried to capture and preserve a live performance in its purest form. Today I’ve come to ask Charbonneau about his recent experience using DirectOut’s ANDIAMO.MC. ![]() Suddenly, he reaches past me to adjust a setting that seems to have caught his attention before slowly looking back my way. With arms loosely crossed, he stares at a colorful display of flashing LED signals embedded in a large bank of outboard gear that flanks the soundproofed right hand wall, just next to an analog patch bay that’s been modified and whose matte black cables have been labeled by an obsessively perfectionistic hand. Leaning against the padded helm of an iconic Neve console stands Guy Charbonneau, founder and creator of Le Mobile. A formidable electronics heaven that was built slowly over time, Le Mobile is the place where the best of the old has been combined with the best of the new in ways that can only be described as über progressive. If you happen to know something about recording great music live, then one step through the doors of the legendary remote recording studio, Le Mobile, is all it will take for you to be transported into a completely different realm.
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