BOZEMAN, MT — Jereco Studios (www.jerecostudios.com) is located in a small town outside of Yellowstone National Park. The studio has four Emmy Awards to its credit and provides sound recording, sync-to-film ADR and voiceover recording services, with remote link up via ISDN or SourceConnect. In addition to its 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound capabilities, Jereco also serves as an equipment rental house.
Jeremiah Slovarp, producer/engineer and president of Jereco Studios, had been working on a Yamaha 02R96V2 for years, but recently sought out a new and more modern work surface.
“Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems had posted its first Nuage photos and articles on their Website, and I knew this system was what I was looking for,” Slovarp recalls. “I admit, I miss the old console, but am moving ahead with the new Yamaha Nuage. The O2R96 still works after almost 14 years, which is a real testament to Yamaha's design and build quality.”
In the Fall of 2013, Slovarp heard that Poll Sound in Salt Lake City was going to host a Nuage demo, along with members of Yamaha’s technical and sales team. He drove seven hours from Bozeman to Salt Lake the night before just some he could be the first one at Poll Sound the following morning.
“I was met on demo day by the Poll Sound staff and Yamaha's Chris Hinson and Randy Weitzel,” he recalls. “Because I was early that morning, I had the console to myself for a good two hours while Chris and the Poll Sound staff took turns showing me around and answering questions.”
Slovarp brought a few projects with him from Montana to use as workflow samples on the demo.
“I think this was a great experiment and gave me the opportunity to work on the console with my own work and workflow preferences,” he says. “I was particularly impressed that Chris was taking notes on my hiccups and recommendations, and passed those notes on to the Nuage development team, some of which have shown up in the latest software updates. The integration of my existing workflow into a new platform that felt so much like my natural workspace in Nuendo really was seamless. The deep integration and control of the DAW on the console is truly complete and unique.”
Slovarp been a Nuendo users since 2002, and has kept up with every revision and update. He appreciates Nuage’s work surface, which enabled him to put down the keyboard and mouse.
“I feel like I can get back to mixing, pushing faders, turning knobs, and just working on a creative console,” says Slovarp. “After an eight- or 10-hour day, my hands would be in pain from all the manual movements I had to make being dependent on mouse editing and clicking. With the advent of all the cool and amazing new digital DAW based mixing tools and equipment, I think the industry, in general, has regressed from the art of mixing and working with consoles and large format hardware. But with Nuage, I appreciate the deliberate move Yamaha has made to enable engineers to get back to mixing and editing as an art form.”