Focusrite Launches Heritage Sound Competition to Mark 30-Year Anniversary — Win a Mix by Damian Taylor
Three decades of audio innovation is a fine excuse to throw a party.
Focusrite couldn’t agree more. So in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the UK-based audio gear and software manufacturer, the company is hosting their Heritage Sound Competition.
Winner of the Focusrite Heritage Competition will get their song mixed by Damian Taylor.
This is a contest you’ll want to get mixed up in: Buyers of an ISA or Red 1 500 product who register their product and use it on a track between March 2nd – September 1st 2015 could win a chance to have their song mixed by Damian Taylor out of Golden Ratio studio in Montreal, Canada.
Damian Taylor has mixed and engineered songs for a range of artists that include Arcade Fire, The Killers, Bjork, The Prodigy and more. Stay tuned for the specs, direct from the birthday boys and girls at Focusrite:
Contest Details
- Purchase and Register a Focusrite ISA or Red 1 500 series product between March 2nd and September 1st, 2015.
- Use the Focusrite product on a song.
- Upload a rough mix to the Heritage contest page by September 13th, 2015.
- Damian Taylor will choose the winner himself and begin work as soon as source files are supplied.
A Brief Focusrite Heritage Story
Focusrite grew out of a 1985 request from Beatles’ producer Sir George Martin to legendary professional audio designer Rupert Neve to design a new, high-quality microphone preamplifier and equaliser – and later a dynamics module – to extend the capabilities of the vintage Neve recording console installed in Martin’s AIR Montserrat studio in the Caribbean. Their success in Montserrat and subsequently at AIR London resulted in their commercial release as stand-alone modules.
These legendary modules and their successors, sharing the same design with only minor alterations, with their versatile mic, instrument and line inputs and their classic sound, spread around the world and found a home in many leading recording studios. They’ve been used on literally hundreds of hit records by top artists, engineers and producers – and today, the Focusrite Heritage Sound is even more popular than when the original units were first introduced over a quarter of a century ago.
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