Green Day Engineer Chris Dugan Tracks with Apollo Expanded Software On the Set of Geezer

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Thought this interesting. Talks about setting up equipment for recording on the set of Geezer.

Grammy award-winning engineer Chris Dugan helmed the console for Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown and the acclaimed Broadway cast recording for American Idiot. But until recently, he’d never set up a mobile recording studio on a movie set —in this case, for the upcoming Lee Kirk-directed Geezer, to be released later this year, starring Fred Armisen and Billie Joe Armstrong as grown-up punk rockers giving the old band one more try.

A longtime UAD enthusiast, Dugan looked to his Apollo QUAD and Apollo 16 Thunderbolt audio interfaces — linked by the new Apollo Expanded software to provide him the perfect portable environment for capturing a 100% live band in two very demanding environments: a bustling movie set, and an underground rock club. The results, he tells us, were universally excellent.

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“I was basically operating my Apollo rig on the other side of this fake back wall,” says Dugan.