Archive for March, 2007
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Students Learn Big Audio Setup Firsthand
On Easter weekend, a crew of 50 Conservatory of Recording Arts students will accomplish what the Arizona Cardinals have been unable to do all year in their new stadium: Win Big. The all-CRAS audio crew, led by Live Sound instructor Keith Morris will win by getting first-class on the job training as they help set [...]
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Mic With No Name
photo caption: Cycle 3 student Joshua Brooks setting up a yet-to-be-named mic in his drum clinic
Recently, the Conservatory opened a connection with Alctron, a Chinese audio manufacturer that makes mics for some of the biggest names in audio. The Conservatory’s Jeff Thomas imported a number of mics for use in a Mic Modification Clinic open [...]
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
What is Ogg Vorbis?
Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality audio. It is in the same class as the MPEG-4 (AAC) compression scheme but it is in the public domain and completely free for commercial or noncommercial use.
Did you know that if you use the MP3 format [...]
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Friday, March 16th, 2007
audiogirl20
Krystle Sanno of the 8/7/2006 class is heading to New York for her internship and couldn’t be more excited. In this self-made film (looking a bit like lonelygirl15) she talks about her experience from day one and how it’s boosted her confidence, built her audio chops and given her a firm foundation for her new [...]
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
Laser Accurate
photo caption: 8th Cycle student Nathan McKenney setting up an array of mics with laser and tape measure
Students at the Conservatory learn to use every day tools for setting up mics and speakers. The student pictured above is setting up room mics on a drum kit using a laser level bought at Lowes. In their [...]
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Setting up the Band
Cycle 3 class waiting for the band to set up before setting up microphones and lines to FOH. Musicians include Drummer Dowell Davis, Bassist Felix Sainz and Guitarist Anthony Kinchion
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
View from the Floor
Some of the sights and sounds of the GDC around the Conservatory Booth.
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Thursday, March 8th, 2007
In The Classroom With Wwise
CRAS instructors Robert Brock and Michel Henein hard at work in the Audiokinetic booth at the GDC.
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
Live from the GDC!
photo caption: Director of Admissions Tonya Visconti at the Conservatory booth
Conservatory staffers are at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco spreading the word about the school’s new audio for games curriculum and the new alliance with Audiokinetic. The show floor is a crazy blend of gamers, developers, people in costumes (football players to [...]
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Monday, March 5th, 2007
Mr. Smaart-y Pants
One of the tools the Conservatory uses in its Live Sound curriculum is SIA SmaartLive software. It can analyze the frequency response of a room, allowing the FOH engineer to correct phase and sonic irregularities for the best possible reproduction of sound within the venue. The video above is a demo by Conservatory instructor Cory [...]
