Alan Meyerson

Film Scoring Mixer, Alan Meyerson, with his System 5-MC controlling Pro Tools & Nuendo

When it comes to mixing the music for Hollywood's movies, Alan Meyerson is among a select group of audio engineers that handle the lion's share of the biggest features. Meyerson recorded and mixed King Kong, Over the Hedge and both Pirates of the Caribbean blockbusters. Meyerson's new System 5-MC consists of the MC Media Application Controller and 24-faders housed in the System 5 frame. The system was purchased in August and installed in September.

While Meyerson is frequently found on the sound stages of Todd-AO (NASDAQ: LWIRA), 20th Century Fox and other prestigious facilities, he recently installed a Euphonix System 5-MC integrated digital audio workstation (DAW) controller in his personal studio, enabling him to work on projects without fighting Los Angeles' notorious freeway traffic.

With its ability to switch between multiple applications, combined with Euphonix' universal control protocol EuCon, the System 5-MC provides Meyerson the flexibility he requires with the added benefit of utilizing the strengths of each workstation environment.

"I do much of my film mixing on the Euphonix System 5 and I've become quite a fan of that environment," Meyerson said. "I was looking for a similar system for my personal studio, but wanted to minimize the amount of hardware necessary to run a traditional System 5. Because of the nature of my work at home involves a lot of interaction with a DAW, I wanted a control surface capable of interacting with my DAW computers. The System 5-MC not only addressed my hardware concerns, but also provides a tremendous amount of functionality in terms of controlling my DAWs. Its ability to control multiple DAWs and switch between them at the press of a button was particularly appealing."

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In this video Alan talks about mixing with his System 5-MC with Nuendo and ProTools. [more]