Nick Mac is ready to record anywhere

When Electric Feel Entertainment recommissioned one of its studios, head engineer Nick Mac also added to his own arsenal of equipment.

Los Angeles, CA (June 6, 2024) — When Electric Feel Entertainment recommissioned one of its Los Angeles production studios, lead engineer Nick Mac also added to his own arsenal of equipment.

Electric Feel recommissioned the studio with all new cabling, a Solid State Logic AWS 924 Delta analog mixing console, Genelec monitors and a cosmetic facelift, acoustic upgrades and much more. At the same time, Mac has added a Focusrite Red 16Line multi-channel A/DD/A interface, the ISA ADN2 two-channel A/D card and a RedNet AM2 stereo audio monitoring unit to its arsenal of equipment.

Mac, whose engineering credits include Post Malone, The Kid Laroi, 24kGoldn, Machine Gun Kelly, Travis Barker, YG and Future, has always relied on the Focusrite ISA 428 multi-channel microphone preamplifier, ISA 430 channel strip and the ISA One micro pre/DI. More recently, he says: “I’ve been using the Red 16Line a lot lately. My friends probably make fun of me behind my back, but I have my 16Line in a rack (it’s a four-space rack) with my Mac mini in a chassis. And on the front of the rack, I created a panel that allows me eight inputs and eight outputs to my line input and output.

“Basically, everywhere I go, whether it’s Electric Feel or another studio or wherever, I drag this rack with my 16Line. I can track with it and I can mix with it. Most often I follow up with this and use my ISA One as a mic preamp to feed my little patch panel I have up front. And in some situations, because I just added ADN2, I used RedNet to access some other equipment. I used ISA One with RedNet, which I really like. It allows you to go incredible distances away from your setup, while remaining in control. All with impeccable sound.

Due to the nature of Mac clients, it must have the flexibility to record in a wide variety of spaces, hence the new ISA ADN2 two-channel A/D card for its ISA One. “RedNet provides the flexibility to work in a wide range of geographic situations. Sometimes we get calls, “Oh, we’re going to set up camp in this house and work there for a month, or a week,” or whatever. And now that I have RedNet functionality, you can log in and create whatever type of configuration you want,” he says.

“I’m a big fan of creating different stations for different things and having the flexibility without compromising the core of what we do, which is always getting the best audio quality. So Focusrite equipment gives me the type of setup I need to capture my artists’ tracks.