Scheiner Arms Studio With Yamaha Artillery

June 20, 2003 — Producer/engineer Elliot Scheiner has been nominated for 17 GRAMMY Awards, winning five-times; and, over the course of his career has worked with a wide variety of multi-platinum artists including Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, The Doobie Brothers, Jimmy Buffett, America, Sting, John Fogerty, Bruce Hornsby, Natalie Cole, and more recently Boz Scaggs, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Aaron Neville.

For the past three years, Scheiner has devoted himself almost exclusively to surround audio production and re-mixes, winning praise and awards for more than a dozen key titles including Faith Hill's Cry, Steely Dan's Two Against Nature, R.E.M.'s Document and Automatic for the People, Beck's Sea Change, Van Morrison's Moondance, The Eagles' Hotel California, The Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and Queen's A Night At The Opera, which won the 2002 DVD award for Best Audio. He is currently working on R.E.M.'s New Adventures In Hi-Fi.

Scheiner's most recent surround output is Aaron Neville's Nature Boy, due in August. To reference the surround mixes he engineers on the Yamaha DM2000 digital console at his Eyeball Studios, he relies on Yamaha MSP10 Studio powered monitors.

"The more I work with the MSP10 Studio monitors, the more I realize just how accurate they are," notes Scheiner. "When I mix a 5.1 and then send it over to the label and the mastering house, they both respond with how great it sounds and seldom ask for any changes. I guess that proves the point."

The Yamaha MSP10 Studio powered monitors are poised to become a cornerstone of the "new age" of audio production, in which advanced digital production consoles such as the Yamaha DM2000 and 02R96 as well as high-sample-rate digital source material and ultra-accurate reproduction media are rapidly becoming the norm. Audio professionals need precise reproduction that clearly reflects even the tiniest changes in EQ, dynamics, effects, or any of the multitude of parameters that add up to create the final sound. With the integration of powered amplifiers and speakers, the monitors' power system is ideally matched and precisely tuned to achieve the best possible performance. "The MSP10 Studios are pretty, powered speakers – you put them up and they sound wonderful," notes Scheiner. "They're much softer and much more musical."

Scheiner also uses a Yamaha AW16G digital audio workstation, specifically chosen to record live bands for possible signing to Bop City Records, which he co-owns along with Al Schmitt and Ed Cherney. Scheiner says the recently formed Bop City is an artist-friendly jazz label dedicated toward new and veteran jazz artist projects recording music for albums and film soundtracks.

"Having had the opportunity to use the AW16G has been absolutely amazing for me," says Scheiner. "My son has even used it in Boston, where he attends college, to record local bands that our label might be interested in developing. After recording a gig, he dumps the file onto his Nuendo software for edits, burns a CD, and then sends it down to me. The portability factor is about as good as it gets."

The sleek portability and user-friendly technology has contributed to the workstation's ability to produce professional sounding recordings, all from a single, self-contained unit. The AW16G contains a front-mounted CD drive and records up to eight simultaneous tracks of CD-quality digital audio. Each track features up to eight virtual tracks and records directly to the internal 20 GB IDE hard drive. Up to 16 tracks may be exported all at once as .WAV files.

For more information, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Pro Audio & Combo Division, Professional Audio, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622; telephone (714) 522-9011 or e-mail infostation@yamaha.com.

Product Links:
02R96, AW16G, DM2000 and MSP10