Ulrich Wild: Symphony System
Posted on: August 20, 2008
Posted in: Artists, Featured, Symphony, Video
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Mixer/Engineer Ulrich Wild describes why he moved from Pro Tools to Logic which then led him to Apogee’s Symphony System as the core of his native studio. Mixing in his home studio in Los Angeles, CA, Wild has employed his Symphony System on records for Static-X, Dethklok, Otep, The Kordz, Project86, and new tracks for Activision’s Guitar Hero.
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Video Transcript:
“My name is Ulrich Wild and I am a mixer and producer, and I engineer my own records. I worked for Terry Date for quite a couple of years,and made records with him like Pantera, White Zombie, Deftones, and then went out on my own, a little brave me, and took on Static-X, Powerman 5000, and now I’m doing a lot of mixing and the first project I actually did here on the Symphony System was Dethklok, but also Project 86.”
I’m now working with the Chords, a Lebanese band who is amazing, and they just keep coming, so you better check out my discography somewhere on Ulrichwild.com.”
“Originally, I just tried to put together a rig that would allow me to accomodate real low budget projects, and I was a heavy Pro-Tool user, but I never really liked mixing in Pro-Tools, and I needed something that would allow me to have more tracks than 48, than I was allowed to have with the Digi 002.I wasn’t really willing to spend more money on the hardware for Pro-Tools.”
“I went back to Logic because there are many awesome plug-ins that I remember because I did a record in 2001, the second Static-X record in Logic entirely, and I really liked it. Then I put this rig together and it sounded OK and I was really happy with what Logic was doing for me and how the work flow was in Logic and it was the closest thing I can find to work it on a big SSL, but sonically,having to crunch through the 02 was not very fun and that was about the same time that Apogee came out with the Symphony System. It all kind of crystalized into being able to do this kind of work at home, on my own schedule with quality results that meet and or surpass any analog console that I have been working on before.”
“The Symphony System is really awesome because it gives me zero latency in this native system that I’m running with Logic. I’m not relying on the Pro-Tools hardware anymore, and Apogee has always had a great reputation for making awesome converters. When they finally came out with their own system for supporting my native world,here I was jumping on it and here I am, haven’t looked back.”