Finding himself busy doing monitors for Will Young and David Gilmour, some high profile, one-off shows with Britannia Row Productions, including FOH at Children in Need Rocks at the Albert Hall, Centrepoint foundation charity event at Kensington Palace and the Evening Standard Theatre awards over the last few months, it's a surprise that he's had time for his studio projects.
Yet the bus powered iD4 with its versatile feature set was built for life on the road. "We've been working on a record for a new pop artist at the studio for a while now, and I had some time before shows and days off to do some editing and pre-mixing in the hotel room. It's extremely handy that the unit is bus powered. I found it drove my headphones surprisingly well," he confirms.
Tempany is certainly no stranger to having high performance mic pres at his fingertips, with a studio setup at his Oxford home as well as a shared professional studio space in west London. "I have been using the iD22 as a D/A for my home studio a lot," he adds, highlighting the audio interface's high performance Burr-Brown converters
"I've got great sounding converters (Black lion modded Avid interfaces) both at home and in my studio in Chiswick. When ProTools is in use however, I can't use these converters to reference things like iTunes and Spotify. I've found the iD22 to be really quite close in terms of audio quality. Considering the price difference, the audio difference is very small. I'm been thinking about putting the iD4 or another iD22 into the studio to get around this limitation."
He's also got a plan to use the iD4 to help tune PA systems, when he's got his live hat on. "Like recording music, it's important that good digital conversion and good mic pre's are part of the signal chain while doing measurements on PA systems."
(Jim Evans)
