Surry Hills, New South Wales

Another member of Sydney’s Surry Hills’ studio brethren is Atlas Worx. Established in 1998 and steered by the perpetually steady hand of Mr Ian Gordon, Atlas Worx specialises in multitrack audio production for the exceedingly colourful Sydney Mardi Gras and Sleaze Balls, Fashion Week, Sydney NYE Governor’s Ball, as well as countless corporate functions, night club presentations, and television commercials. In between, Ian tackles remixes and single releases for music monoliths, Virgin EMI, BMG, Warner Bros and Sony.

Ian recently revamped the entire rig, turfing out the ageing dual-G4 Macs and replacing them with an eight-core MacPro running ProTools 8, and a 2.3GHz G5 running ProTools 7.4 – both systems utilise Digidesign 002R interfaces. Ian’s been quite gob-smacked by how much quieter the new machines are, and attests that it took him about a week in Target Mode to transfer all his sound libraries over to serial ATA drives (21 of them in all). His most active equipment includes a Mackie LM3204 line mixer, Behringer B Control surface, two Samsung 22-inch monitors and a central Samsung 37-inch HD monitor, various synths and modules by Roland, Kurzweil and Yamaha. Monitoring is via Tannoy, JBL, and domestic Technics speakers, and a custom DIY ‘artillery array’ for that ‘PA experience’. Mics in use include Behringer, Shure, and Sennheiser.

As you’ll see from the picture, Ian’s favoured colour scheme is black, underpinned with black highlights and accented with further shades of black – spend any amount of time in the Atlas Works arena and you’ll quickly forget what time it is in the outside world.

Atlas Worx: (02) 9280 1424 or check out the website