New Italian CAMP (Creative Arts & Music Production) Academy music education facility has opened with a selection of Audient USB audio interfaces as a fundamental part of the teaching process.

‘We have connected the iD4s to our twelve iMac stations to provide all of our students a perfect sonic experience, and the two iD22s are now part of our recording and production studio,’ says, Music Production and Sound Technologies Director, Luca de Gregorio.

A graduate of Milan’s SAE Institute as well as being active in the industry (he’s currently working on Asif Kapadia’s latest movie) means de Gregorio is well positioned to know how to inspire his students. ‘The interfaces are simple to use and easy to understand,’ he says. ‘The students simply plug them in and start to work. We connected each iD4 to an iMac, and use them to train students mainly on Logic Pro X. They can record some live vocals and instruments taking advantage of the several inputs, and then mix their tracks.’

CAMP Academy was the work of Davide Niespolo, co-owner of Italian national network Radio Kiss Kiss, and now CEO/General Manager of the school. His vision was to create a hub for the creative arts, where budding performers and producers could hone their skills for a broad range of work in the music business. ‘We trained more than 400 students this year – next year is going to be even more crowded,’ he says.

Niespolo uses his links with the radio station – one of the largest in Italy – to promote the Academy’s courses and teaching methodology across the country. Happily, this help goes both ways: ‘Radio techs are using Audient interfaces for editing and post production, and we recently used them to broadcast our school’s last day concert.’

Both iD4 and iD22 provide a pair of Audient console mic preamps, class leading converter technology and high-end audio performance in a compact desktop package. They were supplied by distributor, Leading Technologies.