This is the sort of news that should give everyone the warm-and-fuzzies before the weekend, thanks to ORIGIN inline architecture helping students, "attain a practical understanding of recording, mixing, routing, and gain staging through hands-on operation within a broader environment that also includes SSL interfaces."
According to news released this week, "Shoreline College, 10 miles north of downtown Seattle, Washington, opened its recently constructed Bracken Building, the new home of its Music and Music Technology programs, in April 2026. The new facility houses two recording studios with associated live tracking rooms, three small production/mixing rooms and two MIDI/computer labs that all feature equipment from Solid State Logic, including ORIGIN 32-channel and ORIGIN 16-channel inline analogue mixing consoles and dozens of SSL’s USB audio interfaces."
“We had two goals with this new space,” said Matt Jorgensen, Music Technology Faculty, Shoreline College, in that statement. “Number one was to have two recording studios that were nearly identical, and the second was to almost take a step back from the digital world and have the consoles be purely analogue.”
"Shoreline's investment in both SSL ORIGIN consoles and SSL audio interfaces helps create a more complete educational experience, allowing students to develop and translate practical, real-world production skills from the 'classroom to the control room' that mirrors industry practice," Ashleigh Davies, Head of Education, Solid State Logic, told MC. "We are proud to have our technology being used by Shoreline in this manner."
“When I recorded in Seattle I spent a lot of time at Studio X, which famously has a big SSL console, and all the engineers in town have always raved about SSL,” Jorgensen says. “But I think having a giant SSL would have been a bit overkill for what our students are doing, so I think what drew us to the ORIGIN board was the fact that it’s simple. We are an educational institution, and those consoles help us to get the students up and running as quickly as possible so they can do the things that they want to do.”
For more info, visit solidstatelogic.com.
