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Apogee Users: The Matrix
- Scott Spock
Music from The Matrix - with Apogee
by Richard Elen
The Los Angeles-based songwriting/production team of The Matrix consists
of writer/producers Scott Spock, Lauren Christy and Graham Edwards. They've
been working together for over three years now, and during that time have
gained a great deal of success, with five songs and all of the singles on
Avril Lavigne's "Let Go" album (including Complicated
and Sk8ter Boi), three tracks on Liz Phair's recent album, a couple
of tracks on Ricky Martin's new release, Christina Aguilera's This Year
from the "My Kind of Xmas" album, and many other recent hits.
Additional clients include the Backstreet Boys, Nick Carter, the band Lillix,
and Ben Jelen. The team have a brand new studio in Studio City.
When I visited The Matrix, they were putting the finishing touches to vocals
with UK hit artist Darius - The Matrix crew have written and produced five
tracks on his upcoming Mercury release. Apogee AD-8000s have pride of the
place in the extensive equipment rack, with the recent addition of a Trak2.
Lauren Christy - a former Brit with an impressive track record as an artist
herself - took over at the computer to finish the vocals while Scott spent
a few minutes to talk to me.
| "...we've used it on Liz Phair amongst others,"
"And I love the idea of having a portable system,
a 1U rack-mount unit that does everything - including FireWire into
a laptop - it's awesome!" |
- Scott Sprock -
The Matrix |
"Our new place was designed by Vincent Van
Haaf who designed some rooms at A&M (when they were A&M) and
Conway amongst others... It's the best sounding room I've ever had!",
he says. "We've been wrapping up Liz Phair's new record as well
as Ricky Martin's, among a bevy of new artists," he goes on.
The Trak2 has been a great addition to the gear
and they have been really happy with it." We're using the Trak2
with the FireWire card and the laptop sometimes with Logic. Otherwise,
we just run it S/PDIF into the Digi002 to the laptop for Protools. Once
again, in our main studio, it's been a nice addition to the preamps
we already have, and we've used it on Liz Phair amongst others,"
Scott notes. "And I love the idea of having a portable system,
a 1U rack-mount unit that does everything - including FireWire into
a laptop - it's awesome!" he exclaims.
"We work in a wide variety of fields these
days," says Scott, "from rock, to pop, to rap, to R&B.
We try to avoid pigeonholing ourselves into one genre," he notes.
Almost all the Matrix's credits are for both production and
songwriting, an interesting situation. "Virtually whenever we write
something, the demo ends up being the master, and we end up producing
it," he says. |
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