According to news that broke this week, "Multiple Grammy Award-winning engineer, producer and studio owner Ann Mincieli has been operating Solid State Logic mixing consoles almost since she first started in the business, working her way up from intern to staff engineer at some of New York City’s most prestigious studios beginning in the early 1990s. Mincieli, who is Alicia Keys’ engineer, album coordinator and studio director, oversaw the installation of various SSL consoles at Keys’ music facilities, first in Long Island, then in Manhattan and additionally in California. In 2011 she opened her own multi-room complex, Jungle City, where she has just added the very first SSL ORIGIN EVO anywhere in the world alongside her three SSL Duality consoles."
“I thought the ORIGIN EVO was a great fit for my North Studio at Jungle City, and I was ready to redo that room,” says Mincieli, who saw the new console when it launched at the 2026 NAMM Show in January. “Alicia has a creative hub out west where we have an ORIGIN that we purchased last year, and we also have a Duality there that packs up in a case. When Phill Scholes of SSL hit us up at the NAMM Show about the new ORIGIN EVO design and enhancements from the original ORIGIN, it was perfect timing.”
“We’re incredibly proud of the longstanding relationship Ann Mincieli has built with us,” says Phill Scholes, Vice President of Solid State Logic, to MC. “Her deep understanding of the SSL workflow has consistently been at the heart of how she records and mixes music. There’s a sonic excellence, a workflow, and a reliability that define what we do, and Ann’s consistent chart topping work relies on that for every session. Seeing the very first SSL Origin EVO installed at Jungle City Studios feels like a natural continuation of Ann’s long history with SSL.”
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