Air Indoors / March 26 2007
I’ve just bought a new air ionizer for the studio and it’s brilliant.
Ionizers reduce the amount of positively-charged molecules – ions – in the air that lots of electrical equipment such as one might find in a recording studio can produce. These positively-charged ions are converted into negatively-charged ions such as one might encounter in a very clean outdoor environment – when out hill-walking in Switzerland, for example.
The ionizer we used to have here at Big Arena Studios was quite small and probably not fully up to the job; but this new one – wow, what a monster! Sat here in front of the mixing desk, I feel absolutely wonderful. Gone is the static, enervating atmosphere that we used to have to endure. It has now been replaced by a refreshing and invigorating ambience that just makes you feel great. (What is slightly concerning though is the apparent aphrodisiac effects it produces – one is pretty much permanently at half-mast during a session now, which doesn’t really worry me if I’m mixing some egregious heavy metal rubbish, but if I’ve got a pretty girl band booked in I may have to turn it off.)
And I can’t get Audrey out of the control room, either. She just growls at me uncharacteristically if I try to nudge her into the garden.
But overall, Big Arena’s new acquisition just makes you want to go on forever . . . you just don’t get tired or feel morose at any point during a session - even during the early hours when everybody is beginning to emit unfortunate odours and fruit flies are gathering on the monitors.
I can highly recommend these handy little machines and I am now looking forward to clients booking the studio for longer periods. It also means I can get more work out of my cute little engineers. Ha-ha! Work, you slaves!
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