Archive for August, 2007
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Make Your Own Mic for $20
CRAS Instructor Chris Bailey has a great site called Creativity To Spare that deals with a lot of very cool audio and video techniques, tips and tricks. His Podcast #5 above teaches you how to make your own condenser mic for $20.
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Sennheiser Sound Academy
Joe Ciaudelli and Volker Schmitt from Sennheiser talking about wireless in their traveling RF roadshow, live in the Conservatory’s 6,000 sq. ft. Live Sound Classroom.
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
Loudness Wars Part Deux
We originally flagged a You Tube vid about the Loudness Wars back in July. Here’s another interesting article that expands on the topic and talks about the effects of overcompression.
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Hanging The Kudo
photo caption: Cycle 3 students learning how to hang and manage the Conservatory’s L’Acoustics KUDO line array
The Conservatory’s Live Sound program gives students an opportunity to work with some of the best gear in the business. L’Acoustics’ KUDO hangs in our 6,000 sq. ft. live sound classroom and is a new generation of line source […]
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
DJ Vudu Spellz Podcast
photo caption: DJ Vudu Spellz at the CRAS (inset: Vudu with Ludacris)
DJ Vudu Spellz is a producer who has worked with R. Kelly, Ludacris, Jamie Foxx and Field Mobb. He recently visited the CRAS to talk to the students about Hip Hop production. Before his lecture, Student Christopher McCoy was able to sit down with […]
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
“U 87 AND YOU” Contest: Win a trip to Berlin
What do you associate with the number 87? Almost every audio engineer or musician immediately thinks of the Neumann U 87, one of the world’s best-known studio microphones, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.
Those who send a short video message (maximum thirty seconds) concerning their associations with the U 87 to My-U87-Message@Neumann.com […]
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
Krystle Is Clear About Her Future
photo caption: Krystle Sanno with CRAS insctructor Jeff Harris
Audioblogger: Recent grad Krystle Sanno, one of our favorite people featured on YouTube, was back in town to check in and hunt down some audio work. She has worked in NY with some heavyweights and stopped by to chat with us about her experineces.
Hey everybody. My name […]
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
U of A Visits CRAS
photo caption: l to r, Harry Warman (Warman Marketing), Keith Morris (CRAS), Mike Reinhard (U of A Asst. Tech. Director), Jim Kinkella (L-Acoustics), Mark Miceli (U of A), Gary Lotze (U of A Production Mgr.) and Mark Cowburn (AZ Pro Sound)
Today was an interesting day at the CRAS. A host of audio pros from the […]
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
The Audio World According To Aaron
CRAS student Aaron Gagnon explains why he chose the CRAS and what he expects to get out of the program.
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Fader Bling
A Neve VR in a Glasgow studio demonstrating a fader test. The CRAS has two of these consoles on campus.
