ELLIOT SCHEINER TAKES DELIVERY OF FIRST YAMAHA DM2000 DIGITAL CONSOLE

—New Home 5.1 Studio Houses First in U.S.—

BUENA PARK, CA (April 30, 2002)—Yamaha Corporation of America, Commercial Audio Systems Division, announces the first U.S. delivery of the DM2000 digital console to engineer/producer Elliot Scheiner for his 5.1 studio in Redding, Connecticut.

Elliot Scheiner 'at home'

The five-time GRAMMY® winner, producer/engineer, hardly needs an introduction. His accomplishments span decades and his discography reads like a Who's Who, working alongside such notable musical acts as The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Sting, John Fogerty, Van Morrison and Jimmy Buffett, to name a few. Scheiner has won a total of five GRAMMY Awards. In 2001, he garnered three for Steely Dan's Two Against Nature, in 1981 he won his second GRAMMY for the band's Gaucho, and in 1977 he took home his first GRAMMY Award for Best Engineered Recording for his work on Steely Dan's Aja.

Scheiner is currently using the new console on Steve Lukather's (Toto) solo project [DTS]. "The DM2000 is unlike any other console— packed with features and sounds spectacular—and to have 96 inputs at 24-bit/96k is incredible," he notes.

Scheiner's studio (wired by Monster Cable) also houses Yamaha MSP10 monitors, a Yamaha SREV1 reverb, Alesis HD-24, dbx 160 SL signal processor, Studio Comm 5.1 monitor controller, and Steinberg's Neuendo DAW—and along with the DM2000, are all positioned (except monitors) in a custom desk manufactured by Todd Beeton at Custom-Consoles in Nashville.

"To have someone with Elliot's credentials tout the attributes of the DM2000 affirms that Yamaha is truly listening to the market," states Larry Italia, general manager, Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems Division. "Elliot's input will be invaluable as it relates to the design of future Yamaha products."

Scheiner has been working with the console for the past several months on a multitude of 5.1 projects as well as other projects. "The DM2000's library of built-in effects is absolutely awesome; there's an enormous amount of flexibility with the internal patching and some great 5.1 effects processors. It's one of the most powerful consoles I've ever worked on," says Scheiner.

The high performance digital console offers 96 input channels, gates and compressors on every channel, extensive surround production features, integrated digital audio workstation and ProTools® control, and provides more than nine times the processing power of the Yamaha 02R. While in 96k mode, there is no loss of any inputs or outputs, made possible by utilizing the newly developed DSP7 LSIs with 32-bit (accumulative 58-bit) internal processing.

For more information on the Yamaha DM2000, contact Yamaha Corporation of America, Commercial Audio Systems Division, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622; 714-522-9011; email infostation@yamaha.com or visit www.yamaha.com.