With some of the world’s best recording equipment and the world’s most famous studio within easy reach, producer Rob Cass runs a surprisingly modest set-up.
Embedded in his own suite of the Abbey Road studio complex as an in-house production resource, he calls on Mac Pro running Logic and a range of plug-in effects and instruments, a Midi controller, a Focusrite Liquid Channel and Abbey Road B&W monitoring. ‘I’ve got my dream chain of an 1176, a Neve 1081, and an LA2A all in a Focusrite Liquid Channel,’ he says. ‘I could go downstairs and borrow all of that from the engineers, but I don’t need to.
‘We have the technology within the room to do a record from start to finish’, he explains. ‘We work with artists right from the start of the process, from writing to recording to mixing and even mastering, although we normally just go upstairs – we have the greatest mastering engineers in the world here.’
The Liquid Channel is the mainstay of the rig – everything goes through it and outboard hardware is rarely patched in. A big factor for is speed of use and recallability: ‘We’re often jumping from project to project, so we love the recall facility on the Liquid Channel,’ he says. ‘Everything comes back up as it was before – that’s a huge thing for us’.
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