Archive for July, 2007
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Nothin’ But The Blues
photo caption: Blue Microphone employee and CRAS grad Ben Widmer at the Blue booth at the recent TapeOp Con in Tucson
Blue Microphones is respected industry-wide and makes a full line of microphones for a variety of applications. CRAS students sample these products in various classes including the Mouse in Post classes and the Woodpecker and [...]
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Loudness Wars
An interesting demo of how compression works when used across an entire mix.
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Using Your Driver’s License as a Ribbon Controller!
This clever audio geek above is sending voltage across the magnetic strip on the back of his driver’s license with aligator clips then uses his finger to alter the voltage which in turn adjusts the frequency of a low pass filter in real time.
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
H3-D On Campus
photo caption: Holophone H3-D set up on a Leslie speaker cabinet with the Blue Woodpecker Ribbon mic picking at the bottom
The Canadian company Holophone makes cutting-edge surround recording microphones. Their H3-D microphone was recently on campus for a variety of sessions where students and faculty used the mic to record both in surround and in [...]
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Conga Capture
Joe Morris at the Congas in the Cycle 3 overdub clinic
The Conservatory is always abuzz with some kind of music. Pro players such as Joe Morris (Esteban, Sting, Ray Riendeau) in the above video are on campus most days laying down tracks or playing in the Conservatory’s 6,000 sq. ft. Live Sound venue. In the [...]
