Established in 1880, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, located in the heart of London, offers training in all aspects of classical music and jazz along with drama and production arts. Driven by a need to capture film soundtracks performed by their newly instituted Alumni Session Orchestra, the school recently added 20 AUDIX A231 large diaphragm condenser microphones and a DP5A 5-piece professional drum microphone kit to their production arsenal.
“I got first exposure to recording at the age of 8 by making tea for the Spice Girls and other UK pop acts at Steelworks studio in Sheffield,” recalled Julian Hepple, former Prince FOH engineer and now Guildhall’s head of recording and AV. “But I got my first real exposure to AUDIX as the front of house engineer for Prince on his Hit n Run tour in 2014, where we used the AUDIX i5,D2, D4 and D6 on the drum kit. Since then, I’ve come to rely on various AUDIX microphones with Anoushka Shankar, Robert Glasper and many others.”
