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.
Seattle’s Shoreline College Anchors its Music Tech Programs With Solid State Logic ORIGIN Consoles ORIGIN inline architecture helps 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
Shoreline, Washington, October 13, 2026 — 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.
Stepping into analogue
“We had two goals with this new space,” says Matt Jorgensen, Music Technology Faculty, Shoreline College. “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.”
The ORIGIN consoles were selected not only for their sound quality, but also for their value as teaching tools. Their inline architecture and dedicated controls help students develop a practical understanding of recording, mixing, routing, and gain staging through hands-on operation. Studio A, a teaching studio with room for 20 students that has two adjacent iso booths and a large tracking room that doubles as a music ensemble rehearsal room, houses the ORIGIN 32. Studio B, a smaller tracking studio with a single tracking room that doubles as a small ensemble rehearsal room, features the ORIGIN 16. A retractable door between the large tracking room and a tiered seating area allows the space to be expanded for performances.
Perhaps the biggest attraction of the consoles and interfaces was the SSL brand, says Jorgensen, a former Shoreline student who left for New York City to make a name for himself as a jazz drummer and music composer for TV and film before joining the faculty 30 years later. “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,” he 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.”
Jorgensen teaches some first-year recording classes but mainly teaches second year music composition and MIDI production, and only recently had his first opportunity to mix on the ORIGIN, in front of a class.
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