Written 4 weeks, 1 day ago
As an audio guy that [currently] works in a customer service role for a company well known for design… I often got discouraged attempting to create designs. What I read around the web from designers being the current trend is this thing called “design” consulting; people that create a web presentation concept before even touching markup. Well great.... how the crap am I suppose to come up with a ‘consulted feel’ for my huge database of recordings?
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Written 4 weeks, 1 day ago
With all the music recorded over the summer jazz series at the Banff Centre, every year they make a compilation of all the best stuff. Now, jazz was not my forte compared to other engineers in the program, and I learned tons just working with them. Non the less, I can’t help posting pictures when my name appears on professional media or projects.... and the Banff Centre loves to put our names in as many locations as possible.
Written 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Recently I was browsing the Banff Centre’s website looking for some information and on the audio homepage I find two of my pictures! Knowing the Centre asked for permission to use photos I had dropped on the audio servers, I had to check out the brochure too… A few days later the brochure comes in the mail, and there is a panorama on the back page with my name at the end (seen in a previous blog post).
Of the two…
Written 6 months, 3 weeks ago
So here’s the new addition to the rack...which I don’t have room for yet… Its a custom-built Harrison preamp made by Jack Conners, chief engineer at Interlochen Public Radio in Michigan. When I worked there (oh so many summers ago) he had just completed a 4-channel preamp for the studio and was continuing to complete the others he had. One of the other student engineers kept nagging on him…
Written 7 months ago
This is a repost. Article was in another location on the site
In August, 2007 at The Banff Centre I recorded a classical concert through two Schoeps MK-2 omnis through a Millennia preamp, then split the signal into 5 different analog to digital converters and recorded. While I would not call this an error-proof science experiment, it does provide a solid demonstration between various levels/prices of converters.
The Meitner and Lavry converters are the more expensive, followed…
Written 8 months ago
Almost every single day in the last two years I’ve kept watch on my website’s statistics. A few days ago I noticed a trend emerging in Analytics; x-stream.leedsmet.ac.uk was referring people to my site. When visiting the exact link I get a Whiteboard Login. Whiteboard is an online educational system designed for institutions to host information, discussion forms, submitting articles… based per classroom (you MSU foke: Whiteboard = Angel).
So I started…
Written 8 months ago
After having a drive destroy a recording by having some bad header information, I’ve been more conscious about running a backup during concert recording. In the past I’ve dropped the backup gear because of cost, weight and complexity to a recording (usually because it involved a live to stereo mixdown). So with a very limited budget, I made use of equipment I already had access to.
My wife has a Macbook Pro. Now, on another part of my website I have a A/D…
Written 9 months, 1 week ago
I had the pleasure of assisting engineer Jerry Bruck from Posthorn Recording during the Mahler Festival in Boulder. What does a veteran in the classical recording industry do for orchestra? Use his own system of course.
As a fan of the sphere technique, but lacking in the chance to use one I had a lot of fun listening to the sphere. What amazed me was the sound from the sphere alone. The separation was amazingly good for omnis that close together, and the clarity…
