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Marshall Studios invest in two DiGiCo Quantum 225 for live venue refurbishment

British Rock and roll brands do not get more authentic than Marshall. Moving from his original shop in Hanwell, West London, Jim Marshall took over the Milton Keynes factory site in 1966. A few steps away from the main building was the social club, now repurposed as the Marshall Studio complex.

Adam Beer joined the company in October 2020 as studio manager and oversaw the whole refurbishment project, designing the studio, then, a few years later, turning the disused theatre into a live venue. “Marshall reached out when they decided to make their own recording studio for the Marshall Record Label artists”, says Beer. “The opportunity to build something from scratch was really exciting.”

“I chose how the space sounded, filling it with the best equipment available, but as a former live engineer, it was the theatre that really caught my attention”, he continues. “That part of the project was on the back burner for a while, but we had a bit of downtime at the beginning of the year and finally got to upgrade the live space and do it justice.”

Completed this year, the 250-capacity theatre has a DiGiCo Quantum 225 console at the front of house position and another at monitors, supplied by Solotech. Fulfilling several uses, it is a venue for hire, testing space for equipment, a recording venue and an in-house space for Marshall recording artists’ showcases and live events.

As stable connectivity is very important, the venue is networked into the rest of the studio complex via Dante. The Quantum 225s utilise DMI:Dante Cards, providing 64 channels in and 64 out at 48 kHz or 96 kHz. The house PA is L-Acoustics, which is also supplied by Solotech. “I hadn’t used a DiGiCo since the SD7 and they were never my exclusive desk of choice, so I was coming to it a little bit blind”, says Beer. “But Dan Seal at Solotech was pretty clear. He just said: ‘You have to do it. Get two!’.”

“I was a little bit nervous, the purchase was a real leap of faith for me, but one wonderful thing that happened was a day with Mollie (Autherson, DiGiCo Technical Sales Specialist)”, he continues. “She was fantastic and did an unbelievable job. Mollie made us feel really comfortable and suddenly I realised, it’s all still there, all the customisation you need is available for you.”

(Photos: DiGiCo/Marshall Studios)

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