Multi-platinum Grammy award-winning engineer and producer Dyre Gormsen has installed ORIA, the immersive audio interface and monitor controller into his new ‘experimental space’ in a radar station in Devon. He was so impressed that he’s already got himself another one for his London studio.
“Audient has just made everything easier”
Accumulating a huge catalogue of credits in his three decades in the business working with the likes of Arcade Fire, Of Monsters and Men, Calvin Harris and Yungblud, Dyre’s own Eastcote Mastering was one of the first London studios to adopt the Dolby Atmos system back in 2021.
“Nobody had put something together like this! Before this, everybody was running two computers and two interfaces, but I was convinced that I should be able to connect one interface and do everything on one machine,” he says. Spearheading the transformation himself, he spent a long time learning how to set up Dolby Atmos in a music studio, collaborating with the team from HHB and Dolby who helped to steer him in the right direction.
“The setup process was definitely an easy and satisfying experience, with quick and great results”
Two years after perfecting his London studio, he was looking to install a similar setup in his new Devon space, The Radar. It was then that he discovered Audient’s ORIA made working in Dolby Atmos considerably more straightforward. “The setup process was definitely an easy and satisfying experience, with quick and great results. Audient has just made everything easier.”
Describing the space in Devon as “a relatively raw room which we are slowly treating over time” Dyre has recently added additional speakers, making it 9.1.6. “Using ORIA is absolutely perfect for our situation, because we need to be able to keep up the tuning of the room. It’s so easy to calibrate with the SoundID Reference microphone, too. You don’t need a team of specialists to get it right and it’s all laid out for you in the instructions.
ORIA: “so easy to calibrate with the SoundID Reference microphone”
With ORIA now the main master interface at The Radar, Dyre has found it to be very reliable. “It has not let me down and really fits with my workflow and translates well from Eastcote Mastering. When I come down to Devon, I don’t have to change anything.” This works equally well with producers and engineers visiting The Radar.
In fact, he is so pleased he’s already got another ORIA for Studio B in Eastcote Mastering. He concludes, “It makes a lot of sense to me in many ways and is definitely one of the best products on the market for Atmos mixing that is within financial reach and sounds great.”
Find out more about Dyre by visiting his website.
Read Dyre’s full Success Story online here.
