Audient in the Bunker at Olympic

London’s legendary Olympic Studios is home to two of the music world’s top producers, Cenzo Townsend and Steven Street. Between them, they have helped create hugely successful recordings with New Order, Kaiser Chiefs, Snow Patrol, Blur, The Smiths and many others.

Based in The Bunker at Olympic they have a great reputation for getting the best out of new and established bands alike. An ASP8024 sits at the mix position in The Bunker, with a second Audient console as the centre point of their amusingly named mobile rig, Electric Landlady. Following on from their enthusiasm for the Audient consoles, Steven and Cenzo have recently taken delivery of a Black Series BB4 fitted with two Comps, 2 EQs and a Centro Master Section. The BB4 is now floating between Studio 3 and The Bunker whilst the Centro is firmly rooted in the Studio 3 Prep room, where it provides the source selection between the HD rigs and the digital output feed for all of the Pro Tools prep files to be fed back into the control room.

Of Black Series Steve says, “The EQs are just fantastic, they sound extremely musical, the perfect compliment to the EQs we have on the ASP8024. I prefer the EQ on the Audient console to many other consoles I’ve worked on and the unusual quality of the Black EQ helps to achieve something entirely different again. The Black Comp just does what you want without hearing it too much.”

Cenzo recently completed mixing the new Snow Patrol album, ‘A Hundred Million Suns’ and Steven has just embarked on the next Pete Doherty album.