The ORIGIN gives students an opportunity to get their hands on SSL’s famed 242-style E series equalizer. “Students have seen the SSL brand and they've seen this EQ format, whether it's a G or an E series, emulated by plug-ins,” Schneider says. “When they look at the console, it's not a foreign object. They feel like they're a little bit more in control, because they've seen it, they've touched it, they've seen videos on it.”
The seven ORIGINs in the A Mix Lab sit on a Dante network, interfaced via an Avid MTRX to each console and each station’s patchbay, that offers instructors flexible routing options. “From the teacher station we can feed 16 channels of Dante audio to every single console,” Michael Orlowski, Director of Technical Services , elaborates. For example, he says, “If students were assigned a drum mixing task, the instructor can play previously recorded tracks on a loop. This allows each student to independently mix the same drums, and then compare their mixes on the instructor's station."
“Everybody's on headphones,” Schneider adds, “so they can work in tandem or work together. It allows 14 people to work in this space. Every station has a microphone plugged into it, so one person could be talking while the other person is working on signal flow, or vice versa. The instructor can come by and hear what they're doing. It’s a really cool environment.”