Sound engineer Damien Lewis explains the benefits of the Audient iD44 interface

Grammy nominated, This expert assures that the use of this tool has meant a great change in his work with top-level international artists..

The interface They will listen iD44 is now a permanent fixture in the producer and mix engineer's 'audio tool suitcase' Damien Lewis. With a client list that includes Rhianna, Katy Perry, Flight Stella, Mariah y Whitney, This expert points out that “find an interface that gives me all the I/O options I need, very easy to set up and sounds fabulous right out of the box it was a real game changer for me”.

Lewin has been in this industry long enough to have seen how recording and mixing has changed. "Where we used to be tied to the studio, now we are constantly on the move. I could be working in a big studio one day, in a hotel room the next day or just in someone's house”.

In fact, Damien is a regular at many well-known Los Angeles studios, including Windmark, Paramount, East West, Record Plant y Westlake, and your Audient iD44 is always with you.

The four channels of this Audient interface, brand that sells Audio-Technica Iberia, and powerful I/O -twenty inputs and twenty-four outputs-, as well as the ability to provide the foundation for a full studio means Damien has his perfect mobile setup.

“ID44 allows me to keep everything in a dedicated entry, so it's ready to use in ProTools at any time. The two D.I are a great feature. In my template I can have a dedicated bass and guitar channel ready to go and not worry about routing anything, Just activate it and everything I need is there”.

One of Damien's favorite plugins is Midi Guitar 2: “you can play any software instrument with a guitar instead of a keyboard and that opens up a whole new world in terms of performance and vocals. So I use those I.D.s regularly.”.

The mixing equipment that this expert uses “consists of an iMac, They will listen to iD44, UAD-2 Satellite, almost all plugins created, NS-10’s y Reftone Mix Cubes. I have a ProAc Studio set 100 that I use occasionally, but I love the results I get using my NS-10 again. The amplifier is a custom Yamaha P2201 modified by JCF Audio. My laptop is a clone of my iMac mixing computer, so when I do sessions in other studios, I'm working on the exact same system everywhere I go”.

This sound engineer can use a wide variety of software and plugins during the course of a mix, but the 'old school' is still an option with iD44. “Every once in a while I feel like I need something a little more analog. Therefore, have a dedicated set of outputs sent to one re-amp box for use with guitar amp pedals, or maybe a guitar amp in the control room, It is always very useful”

Plus a brief introduction to the idea of ​​becoming a professional ice hockey player., music has been Damien's life. He started in a successful group playing in a Detroit bar (EU) while in high school - “I don't think they let kids do that nowadays”, emphasize- and then go on tour as a professional drummer.

It was inheriting his father's equipment that sparked his interest in recording.. “He was well known in live sound for many Detroit musical groups, as Mitch Ryder, Blue Oyster Cult, You can -recuerda-. I started learning how to use the equipment by recording my musician friends in Atlanta and, shortly after, to improve and the error arrived. The whole house was a recording studio: mixing console and Hammond B3 in the living room and back rooms, that were soundproof, “They were used for amplifiers and drums”.

Now, fifteen years later, He is working from home again and mainly uses his headphones as reference for his mixes.. However, sometimes uses the iD44's second headphone output for its Bose speaker. “This way I can swap it out very quickly and make references to the little speaker, which is very useful to have in a dedicated set of outputs”. This interview was filmed at the Dubway West studio in Los Angeles and is at this link.