A songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist and self-recording artist of renown, Delcampo chose the desk as a replacement for a classic but aging Siemans console. Recording, producing and releasing records as both Chet Delcampo and Hong Kong Stingray, his career has taken him from coast to coast and across the pond and back, collaborating along the way with the likes of Kid Congo (ex Cramps, The Gun Club and Nick Cave), Parthenon Huxley (The Eels) and David Lovering (the Pixies).
Finally settling in Philadelphia, he has produced two critically lauded albums, The Fountain and Apartment Songs as Chet Delcampo, and two further LP's as Hong Kong Stingray. Recently he has also scored for the movie Mr. Chen and produced, co-arranged and played extensively on the acclaimed debut album by Heyward Howkins.
The LIVE1 might not necessarily be the first console one would consider for a recording facility but its ultra low noise circuitry, famous Cadac sound and engineering quality, and competitive price point caught Delcampo's attention: "The quality factor was my main interest," says Delcampo. "It's fair to say that being designed as a live desk it has relatively minimal studio monitoring options but, that said, by using the board's AFL's on the monitor and master sections one can easily switch between tracking mode and mixing mode; i.e. back to DAW or tape capture and returning into the LIVE1 to monitor.
"I'm finding for my studio it works well, though for more elaborate monitoring needs there are several I/O monitoring rack units that would be worth considering to provide further options."
(Jim Evans)
