I got a new console vacuum today! Backpack Dayton 4TR09… and it kicks serious ass! I hate eBay… but this was the best $125 I’ve spent in a while
Monthly Archives: July 2013
Custom faceplate for a meter
Hohner Bass 3 in for a tune up
What is your reference?
Clair Brothers – Cable Tester
AKG D-99 C Harry Kunstkopf – Dummy Head – binaural microphone (1974)
An interesting observation on the new Mac Pro
Audio Speed Dating
Some people go to the dentist and want free toothpaste
2003 – HVR – my first commercial studio 10 years ago
So I’ve been digging through some pictures and found These Gems from about 10 years ago…
I was 19 years old and moved into the 3rd floor of 115 2nd Ave North Saskatoon. It was RIGHT downtown saskatoon. It had a conference room in it that had the most amazing sounding vault. It was about 560 sq feet. They build me a room inside of a room.
One of my classrooms, and stepping stones.
Not one good piece of gear in the racks, but damn did I make a lot of records with this stuff. One of my classrooms. The Funniest part is… I think I only kept 7 things in these pictures…
Inside an AKG BX20E Spring Reverb
I once put C16 in backwards in an LA4
UREI Garbage
EMS Synthi 100 – Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan – Saskatoon Music Department
Fader Butter
Roland Dimension D Refurb
WBS console Wiring
X-keys Programmable Key Sticks – Switch interface and Foot mouse!
UREI 1178
Interactive Frequency and Gain Charts
Containing the best charts of their kind available anywhere, this free user-interactive applet is built around two main charts; one showing the overall frequency ranges of the various musical instruments and another showing the average sensitivity of the human ear to frequency across the frequency spectrum. Chock full of displayed and mouse-over information detailing many important characteristics of the specific instruments and the various frequency ranges.uency and Gain
Having trouble distinguishing your dBVU from your dBFS? Do you set your recording levels by the meters but the levels just don’t come out the way you think they should? One of the “secrets” of the pros for making quality recordings is knowing how to read and set signal levels throughout the recording chain to get the most out of both the signal and the gear. This free on-line applet explains the fundamentals of this subject in an interactive, step-by-step way.