I am a mid-20's audio engineer, and former Apple professional passionate about technology and music. A recording engineer raised in mid-Michigan, skipping through Colorado and now managing recording for a Texas university. I also dabble in web design.
I have a love/hate relationship with my 6 year old website. At the moment I hate it, and so I've gone extremely minimal in design while maintaining only the better and recent recordings. The other 300 or so are still around, I just haven't updated them.
More on the locations I have or currently are working in:
About the University of North Texas
College of Music
UNT is home to one of the largest music programs by student enrollment in the nation. At the college there are multiple performing venues inside two buildings. Murchison Performing Arts Center contains the larger Winspear acoustic hall and a Lyric black-box theater. A few other performing spaces in the Main Music Building hold the vast quantity of student and small ensemble performances, and a third space is dedicated for the world-renouned jazz program.
Recording Services handles the College of Music’s daily audio and video recording for ensembles, faculty and students. As director, my role is to oversee student engineers recording and editing daily concerts, repairing, installing and designing new systems, maintaining the computer editors, and engineer larger ensemble concerts and sessions. I also handle finances, hiring, and general paperwork for Recording Services.
I deal directly with audio and video production from planning through the final product. On larger concerts I do this myself, while most daily needs are handled by trained students. I also facilitate small to large recording sessions from students to faculty, and personal to commercial projects.
Several major overhauls to the recording systems have been within the last few years during my time at UNT. I have overseen the installation of multiple fiber optic audio systems, several multitrack upgrades, decking-out the mic cabinet, adding boutique preamps & converters, along with speakers, custom studio furniture and computers.
I have also pushed for increasing distribution outlets through online services, such as on-demand and live streaming. My department pushes about 30 live multicamera concerts a semester to the Internet, and has begun displaying concerts on-demand though desktop and mobile outlets along with standard DVDs. I use a combination of 3rd party services to internal hosting and maintain all aspects of our servers and web design.
Related to running the recordings, I teach a basic audio class at the graduate and undergraduate level. The course is designed to familiarize working musicians with the basics of recording for when they are professionals in the world.
For the most up-to-date information, visit:
http://recording.music.unt.edu
The Banff Centre
What Is It?
Located in in Banff National Park in the mountains of Alberta, Canada is The Banff Centre. The audio program at the Banff Centre is a work/study program three times a year with about 8-10 associates/assistants. Its overseen by Theresa Leondard, and senior engineer John Adams. I attended the summer of 2007 from May through August.
About:
The Banff Centre's audio program enhances skills in jazz and classical recording, editing and mastering on industry-standard gear. Recording is done through high-end microphones, preamps and converters including Schoeps, Neumann, DPA, Lavry, and Meitner. Training in post-production and editing is done on either Pyramix or ProTools, with the main control room housing an array of classic analog gear, and a Euphonix digital/analog mixing board. Banff's Pyramix systems are housed on location in a beautiful acoustic concert hall, and in a critical listening room equipped with Cedar's Retouch, and 5.1 surround. Two Protools HD systems reside in the main recording studio and in a post-production/soon to be surround-capible room.
About Recording Services
From 2004-2006 I worked for Michigan State University School of Music's Recording Services. My primarily job was to record, edit, mix and master concerts and sessions from start to finish. I also facilitate recording sessions with students and faculty, maintain equipment and other side projects such as the office's website. The vast majority were archived-based live to 2-track or small multitracking, with larger and special projects in the 16 and 24 track range. During this time I also was privileged to track the Lansing Symphony along with the M.S.U. Symphony.
Interlochen Public Radio
For the summers of 2004 and 2005 I was hired as a recording engineer for this music camp. Under supervision of the chief radio engineer, Jack Conners, and engineer Brock Mormon, I along with two others provided audio recording support for the 8/6* week camp, Interlochen Public Radio, and other departments as required. This involved setting up and recording music concerts and recitals, studio recording sessions, live radio broadcasts and audio duplication using digital recording, editing and audio compact disc mastering hardware and software.
Established in 1963, Interlochen Public Radio (IPR) is owned and operated by Interlochen Center for the Arts. The public radio service is home to two distinct radio stations broadcasting continuous classical music (88.5/88.7/100.9 FM) and news (91.5 FM) to northwest lower Michigan. For those outside of the regular broadcast area, IPR streaming is available online. The IPR building has eight offices, five control rooms, five studios, an engineering area, and a music library containing more than 10,000 recordings.