Two years after perfecting his London studio space, multi-platinum Grammy-winning engineer and producer Dyre Gormsen was looking to establish a similar set-up in Devon. This new ‘experimental space’ is located in a former radar station, and its use of Audient’s Oria Oria Immersive Audio Interface and Monitor Controller made working in Dolby Atmos particularly straightforward.

‘The set-up process was definitely an easy and satisfying experience, with quick and great results,’ he confirms. ‘Audient has just made everything easier.

‘Nobody had put something together like this,’ he continues. ‘Before, everybody was running two computers and two interfaces, but I was convinced that I should be able to connect one interface and do everything on one machine.’

With a catalogue of credits spanning his three decades in the business working with the likes of Arcade Fire, Of Monsters and Men, Calvin Harris and Yungblud, Dyre’s own Eastcote Mastering was one of the first London studios to adopt the Dolby Atmos system back in 2021.

Describing the space in Devon as ‘a relatively raw room which we are slowly treating over time’, Dyre has recently added additional speakers, making it 9.1.6. Leading the transformation himself, he spent a long time learning how to set up Dolby Atmos in a music studio, collaborating with the team from HHB and Dolby who helped to steer him in the right direction.

‘Using Oria is absolutely perfect for our situation, because we need to be able to keep up the tuning of the room, he says. ‘It’s so easy to calibrate with the SoundID Reference microphone, too. You don’t need a team of specialists to get it right and it’s all laid out for you in the instructions.

With Oria now the main master interface at The Radar in Devon, Dyre has found it to be very reliable: ‘It has not let me down and really fits with my workflow and translates well from Eastcote Mastering. When I come down to Devon, I don’t have to change anything.’

He is sufficiently pleased, that he’s already got another Oria for Studio B in Eastcote Mastering. ‘It makes a lot of sense to me in many ways, and is definitely one of the best products on the market for Atmos mixing that is within financial reach and sounds great.’

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