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Henry Sarmiento heads up the idyllically situated Sonic Vista Studios in Ibiza, where he has worked with the likes of Lady Gaga, 50 Cent, Akon, Ne-Yo, The Ting Tings, and many more. Summer looks like being a hectic one for the New York-born producer, but with a new collection of DiGiGrid audio interfaces in his inventory, things will be that little bit easier.

This summer, Sarmiento is set to record the famous Ibiza Rocks concerts Past artists include Ed Sheeran, Rudimental, LCD Soundsystem, and Tinie Tempah; and this year’s run of shows promises to feature the same level of high-end performers across the board. For all these performances, Sarmiento will be turning to his DiGiGrid kit to capture all the audio.

“DiGiGrid has created an incredible ecosystem of audio interfaces,” Sarmiento insists. “The ability to connect via Ethernet has changed the game when it comes to system configuration, too. I am already using the DiGiGrid IOX, DLS, and MGB, and that entire system will be used for Ibiza Rocks throughout the summer season.

“I can record up to 128 channels of audio via MADI to the DiGiGrid MGB alone, and I can then connect [via Ethernet] the DiGiGrid IOX, which will give me 12 channels of analogue inputs for crowd mics, and so on. When you tally that up, 140 channels of audio recording in such a small rack is pretty unbelievable, to be honest.”

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Sonic Vista Studios’ founder Henry Sarmiento just returned from the amazing Dancefair 2016 in the Netherlands. The event was invigorating and filled with fascinating topics about the dance music industry. Henry’s main theme was “no solid plan? no future” where he spoke passionately about the importance for artists, producers and DJ’s to have a clear vision of their objectives and thus define their artistic identity as well as develop their individuality.

Here’s an excpert of what was said:
“I like all those tutorials online about how to produce this and that. Hell, I like the whole Dancefair and Musicfair concept. But… I won’t give a workshop like that. Because I think it will not help you to become a successful artist. There are some very important factors that are easily overlooked. Everyone calls themself a Producer or a DJ/Producer, whatever. But have you really thought about yourself as an artist? What is your plan for now and in the future? How do you see yourself truly? What are you, and does that match with what you are doing?“ Henry Sarmiento at Dancefair 2016

Here’s dancefair’s statement about Henry Sarmiento’s presentation:

“He is truly one big chunk of inspiration you need to experience. Word.” Dancefair Team 2016.

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A great article about our friends from DiGiGrid Audio

At Sonic Vista Studios, the BURL is an essential part of our mixing chain.

SVS Owner Louis Henry Sarmiento II speaking at 3:05, click here to watch

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A film by Peter Bouwmans and Guido van Gestel from 45degree productions.

Featuring the great Elijah Ray

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It was a true pleasure to visit our friends from Gibson Brands in their new headquarters at the old Hit Factory in NYC.

Craig Anderton (Executive VP of Gibson Brands, photo on the left) was an amazing host, it’s always inspiring to be around people with great vision.

Main Photo on the left -  Courtesy of Michael Reitman (Freelance Photographer)

AES 139th Convention

Sonic Vista Studios (SVS) had the pleasure to attend this year’s latest AES convention, the Audio Engineering Society’s 139th forum in New York City. Gathering all the movers and shakers in the audio industry, it was a pleasure to see all these great minds at work and witness the new tools they’re offering to the creative music community.

SVS had great meetings with DiGiGrid, Slate Digital, Waves, Auspurger, Quad Studios, TSU, Millenia Media, Sean C Kennedy and the great producer/writer Leo Sacks (Earth Wind and Fire as well as the Bar-Kays to name a few).

Thank you New York City.

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Live recording for MTV Ibiza Rocks – Summer 2015