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…

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Rough 2

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Conference room with old VaultConfrence room

Confrence room (1)

Safe Floor

Safe Ceiling

Safe Ceiling (1)

Safe Door

Safe from inside

EMS Synthi 100 – Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan – Saskatoon Music Department

EMS Synthi 100 - Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan - Saskatoon Music Department

EMS Synthi 100 – Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan – Saskatoon Music Department

EMS Synthi 100 - Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan - Saskatoon Music Department

EMS Synthi 100 – Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan – Saskatoon Music Department

EMS Synthi 100

EMS Synthi 100 – Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan – Saskatoon Music Department

EMS Synthi 100 - Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan - Saskatoon Music Department

EMS Synthi 100 – Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan – Saskatoon Music Department

EMS Synthi 100

EMS Synthi 100 – Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan – Saskatoon Music Department

EMS Synthi 100

EMS Synthi 100 – Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan – Saskatoon Music Department

EMS Synthi 100 - Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan - Saskatoon Music Department

EMS Synthi 100 – Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan – Saskatoon Music Department

EMS Synthi 100 - Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan - Saskatoon Music Department

EMS Synthi 100 – Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan – Saskatoon Music Department

EMS Synthi 100 - Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan - Saskatoon Music Department

EMS Synthi 100 – Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan – Saskatoon Music Department

EMS Synthi 100 - Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan - Saskatoon Music Department

EMS Synthi 100 – Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan – Saskatoon Music Department

EMS Synthi 100 - Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan - Saskatoon Music Department

EMS Synthi 100 – Formerly at the University of Saskatchewan – Saskatoon Music Department

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
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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.
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The time is coming….

It’s killing my time and is a distraction. Screen Shot 2013-07-18 at 12.58.45 AMI have a bad case of red-pellet syndrome (where you’re constantly seeking the red-pellet of connection)

I will be posting everything I can on PhaseBook.org as it’s content I can control. Facebook is falling apart and I want as little as I can to do with it.

I will be reaching out to my friends and colleagues and maintaining a roll-o-dex

You can still http://CallMeWhenFrustrated.com/

Mixing Surround Sound in headphones…

there is a demo below… check it out in cans

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The Spatial Sound Card App is a software based, virtual sound card. It provides speakers for stereo and surround monitoring for the computer with standard headphones.

Professional monitoring of audio content usually requires complex, high-quality speaker installations, for which both budget and space are needed. The Spatial Sound Card enables monitoring of stereo and surround up to 7.1 with a standard headphone on the computer.

The Spatial Sound Card is a virtual sound card that is inserted between software, operating system and audio hardware. The room virtualizations originate from a constantly growing number of high end studios and dub stages like the ARRI Stage One, MSM Munich and others. The technology used in the SSC was used on major Blu-Ray releases (e.g. The Expendables I and II).

To optimize the virtualization the SSC provides parameters to customize the frequency curve of the used headphones. Presets for a lot of well-known headphone models are included, more will follow soon.

The Spatial Sound Card works with all applications that support multichannel audio output. These include media players like VLC and FLAC-Player as well as video and audio workstations. The SSC is recommended for media professionals from the audio, video or games area as well as for agencies and companies with workstations that need high quality audio monitoring.

For now the Spatial Sound Card runs on MacOS 10.6.x and above, a version for Windows will come within the third quarter of this year.


Going back to school!

After much deliberation I’ve decided to go back to school and study Electronics Engineering Technologies fulltime. My school of choice has accepted my application and a start has been set for January. The next few months are going to be a little crazy… 2013-07-16-09.55.52