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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Dave Rat
11/23/11 01:09 PM,
At age 17, I dreamed of someday working in a recording studio and listening to music. Having no real idea what a studio engineer did other than record stuff, I loved the way music made me feel and it seemed to be a pretty good idea to get paid to listen to music. The energy, excitement and thrill received from unwrapping new sounds into my ears seemed to scoop me away into timelessness. Even still memories flood back of the…
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
PSW Staff
09/21/11 11:30 AM,
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Bordering only Saudi Arabia to the south, Qatar is a peninsula country surrounded by the waters of the Persian Gulf. The harsh desert terrain where the heat can reach as much as 120 degrees Fahrenheit can take a steep toll on all who venture outside unprepared. But as the saying, “the show must go on” implies, TV and film work doesn’t wait for ‘better days.’ Such is the business of Birmingham, UK –based location sound mixer Baldev Rayat and his…
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
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08/11/11 08:09 AM,
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Engineer Randy Faustino, CEO and president of Creative Sound Solutions, mixes all of the music for TV reality show The Voice, as well as for sister productions American Idol and Dancing with the Stars. Faustino, along with partners J. Mark King and Tim Hatayama, hold court in three mobile production units outfitted with multiple Avid VENUE and Pro Tools|HD systems. The Voice has aired on NBC since April and stars judges Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Blake Shelton, and Adam…
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Thursday, April 07, 2011
PSW Staff
04/07/11 10:26 AM,
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At the Prolight + Sound show in Frankfurt, Roland Systems Group has added to its V-Mixing System lineup by introducing the new R-1000 48-track recorder/player. The R-1000 is an intuitive stand alone, dedicated recorder/player designed to work with the V-Mixing System and it can also connect with any digital console that has MADI output capabilities by pairing it with the Roland S-MADI REAC MADI Bridge. As a recorder, the R-1000 captures up to 48 channels of discrete audio all as…
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Monday, February 28, 2011
Ty Ford
02/28/11 01:27 PM,
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Live recording: the double whammy. The crossroads at which sound reinforcement and getting a good clean signal for recording antagonize and compromise each other. Whether the job is recording a guest speaker at a convention, a discussion panel (any of whom may talk at any moment), coffee house groups, a theatrical presentation, a church service with choir and band, music group in a small venue, or coliseum rock, the first thing you have to decide is exactly what you want…
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Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Bobby Owsinski
02/08/11 03:10 PM,
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Anyone who’s ever mixed a live recording knows that it’s a lot different than mixing tracks recorded in the studio. How? Dealing with audience tracks for one, and leakage for another. With that in mind, here are a series of steps you can use to maximize that mix. 1. Set Mixing Priorities Assuming that you’re not going to replace instruments that are played badly or don’t sound that great, your mix may be determined not by the instruments themselves but…
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Monday, December 27, 2010
John Kerns
12/27/10 01:29 PM,
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I’d like to say right off the top that this is in no way a new idea. Engineers have been recording shows for this purpose for quite a while. However, the ease and quality that can be obtained now is the big change. My goal is to simply and accurately reproduce the previous night’s show via playback through the same inputs and processing, to emulate at soundcheck in case I don’t actually get one on a show day. There was…
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Friday, December 10, 2010
Bobby Owsinski
12/10/10 02:53 PM,
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Did the client request a big recording rig, but can’t afford the cost? There is another way. While the advantages of recording with a full Pro Tools, Nuendo or Sonar digital audio workstation are many, these rigs are somewhat complicated and time-consuming in the fast-paced lives of most live sound engineers. The DAW consists of at least a laptop and an external audio interface, but most really big rigs require the power of a desktop computer that needs a keyboard,…
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Mike Sokol
10/13/10 02:02 PM,
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Provided by HOW To Church Sound Workshops. Recording the music in your worship services on a two-track recorder, such as a CD recorder, seems like it would be simple. But if your mixes sound terrible, here’s how to do it the right way. Most mixing consoles have a set of connectors labeled “tape out” or something similar. And while you may be tempted to simply plug your CD recorder into that output, there’s probably trouble on the way. Here’s why.…
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Bruce Main
09/01/10 02:00 PM,
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Many of us make our livings providing concert-goers with the best live music experience possible. We deploy high-fidelity loudspeaker systems and microphones with the latest in digital effects and studio-quality processing in an effort to make the live show sound “just like the record.” Only better, of course, because the excitement, visual elements, crowd response and performance spontaneity are impossible to reproduce in someone’s living room. Or is it? Let’s step back in time and examine our progress in the…
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