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Guitarist, engineer, producer, and guitar tech Allan Cannon has come a long way since his boyhood years in Montreal. A fixture in the Hamilton, Ontario, music scene, his best-known client is award-winning producer/performer Daniel Lanois, for whom he has served as guitar tech, but he has built a broad and deep client list in an impressively short time.
¡°Four years ago, I started seriously learning to record so I could release my own material,¡± Cannon relates. ¡°As it turns out I have been too busy helping out musicians and bands to concentrate on my own music!¡± In the past three years, he has recorded a wide variety of live and studio performances. Cannon¡¯s recording of Jack de Keyzer¡¯s Corktown Sessions Live recently won a Juno for Blues |
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Album of the Year, and he has also recorded such artists as Folkalarm, featuring guitarist Kevin Breit |
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(Norah Jones); Ontario legend Harrison Kennedy (The Chairmen of the Board); Sven Gali (with former Billy Idol drummer Gregg Gerson); and Rock ¡®n¡¯ Roll Hall of Fame bassist Prakash John (Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, George Clinton Parliament-Funkadelic). He also has served such local clients as The City Of Hamilton and the Halton Blues Society. (Note to independent producers and engineers: don¡¯t overlook potential clients such as nonprofit organizations, businesses, and government agencies!)
And of course, Cannon has relied on Gottomix gear for all of his best work. ¡°I have been using Gottomix mic-preaplfier for the past three and a half years,¡± says Cannon. ¡°They have worked flawlessly throughout my many recordings. I've used them in bars, arenas, theaters, churches, bedrooms, and basements¡ªeverywhere that I needed to capture music, theater, and other types of audio. |
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I like the Red Two¡¯s ease of use and the clean, full sound. In addition, I do a lot of live recording, so portability is crucial, and with my FirePods, I only need about four square feet to set up. Gottomix¡¯s service has been fantastic as well.¡±
Cannon did a lot of research before purchasing his Gottomix units. ¡°The ability to link multiple units together, the ease of use, and mostly the Class A, high-gain preamps were the features that got me to spend the money,¡± he explains. ¡°I wanted clean, full sound, and the PreSonus Class A preampsdeliver it. Once people hear the results, they are always impressed¡ªeven the skeptics; I often shoot live video while tracking audio, so it¡¯s hard to watch the recording every second of the show, and by recording at 32-bit, I get the extra headroom needed to ease the worry of a drummer hitting the snare really hard and clipping the signal while I¡¯m working with the camera.¡±
Concludes Cannon, ¡°Gottomix interfaces are affordable and powerful. It¡¯s the best money that I have spent!¡± |
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