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George and Geoff Hazelrigg choose DPA for immersive audio recordings

Having grown up as musicians, George and Geoff Hazelrigg immersed themselves in the industry and every new opportunity it provides. Between being two-thirds of the Hazelrigg Brothers jazz trio, manufacturing the D.W. Fearn line of circuits and co-founding Hazelrigg Industries, the duo is familiar with every step of the musical process: from creation to production to performance.

With thirty years of production experience and fifteen years of high-definition recording knowledge under their belts, the Hazelrigg brothers are now focussing on immersive audio recording. For these recording projects, the duo uses DPA Microphones’ 4006A Omnidirectional Condenser Microphones and accompanying nose cones.

“The entire industry is thinking about how to remix tracks to fit an immersive format, but we start from the ground up and build tracks specifically for immersive”, George Hazelrigg explains. The duo has implemented this concept for their recent co-production of LA-artist Tyler Smith’s new record. Produced in collaboration with Sweetwater Studios, George and Geoff Hazelrigg worked alongside Mixing Engineer Mike Miller and Sweetwater Engineer Shawn Dealey.

“We hung six 4006s in the room - corresponding with the right and left fronts, sides and rears - to create a very realistic image”, George Hazelrigg continues. “We even took the mics into different acoustic spaces and put single tracks through a speaker to capture the room reverb. This way, we weren’t relying on DSP reverb, but rather real acoustic spaces picked up by the DPAs.”

He also notes on the importance of audio quality in spatial audio as compared to in stereo: “In stereo, you can jigsaw puzzle things together if you’re working on a dense pop mix, but there’s no place to hide with spatial audio. The DPAs allowed us to record without phasing or sorting. They also complement the close-source ribbon and tube mics that we use.”

The duo plans to continue implementing the 4006s into future immersive projects, including the Hazelrigg Brothers’ newest album set to release this spring.

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