There’s nothing on the planet quite like Clear Track Productions, the newly opened 4,000 sq. ft. world-class recording facility located in the heart of tropical Clearwater, Florida, just across the bay from Tampa. The project began a year and a half ago, fueled by the dreams of young, passionate musician and recording engineer, Mr. Mike Anthony Johnson. His purpose? To create an ideal studio environment, built from the ground up, with the right equipment and acoustics to perfectly capture sound.
Working with renowned studio designer Wes Lachot of Wes Lachot Design, plans were made for a harmonious, natural and comfortable studio A with an acoustic design to match no others. For example, the wide sweet spot in the control room extends from the engineer’s seat at the SSL 8056G+ console all the way back to the client couch. This allows both the client and engineer to save the time and frustration of making multiple “guess mixes”. This efficiency is achieved by the side wall diffsorber trapping and an array of RPG Diffractal diffusors, giving the control room the industry standard ±3dB variance throughout its frequency range.
A valuable feature at Clear Track Productions is a recent piece of equipment called CLASP, by Endless Analog. This allows you to simultaneously record to tape while CLASP imports the audio into Pro Tools with no latency. This achieves the desired sound of analog tape with the convenience of Pro Tools. Thanks to this, the studio doesn’t have to charge clients for multiple reels of tape; it’s the usual medium.
