Shoreline, WA (October 14, 2026)—Shoreline College recently unveiled the new home of its Music and Music Technology programs, featuring two recording studios with associated live tracking rooms, three small production/mixing rooms and two MIDI/computer labs.
The new facility, in the recently constructed Bracken Building on the college’s campus just north of Seattle, features equipment from Solid State Logic throughout, including two Origin inline analog mixing consoles and dozens of SSL 18 and SSL 2+ MKII USB audio interfaces. The equipment was supplied by Lift AV and Vintage King, with Sweetwater tackling wiring.
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“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 analog.”
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 an Origin 32-channel console.
Studio B, a smaller tracking studio with a single tracking room that doubles as a small ensemble rehearsal room, features a 16-channel Origin. A retractable door between the large tracking room and a tiered seating area allows the space to be expanded for performances.
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Jorgensen is 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. “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.”
