Archive for June, 2009

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

CRAS Students Build Optical Compressors

There’s nothing like spending a lazy Sunday afternoon building your very own optical compressor!  That’s what CRAS students and instructors did under the supervision of Conservatory instructor and grammy award winner Jeff Thomas.  This particular piece of audio deliciousness is inspired by the legendary LA-2A compressor, but with a few of chef Jeff’s own special [...]

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Friday, June 5th, 2009

CRAS Students Build Keith’s Black Box

On June 3rd, CRAS Students built their own version Keith’s Black Box!  Conservatory live sound instructor Keith Morris helped students build an i/o box that uses Keith’s own proprietary transformer design.  Keith’s Black Box can be used to convert balanced to unbalanced or vice versa, remove ground loops, and add or subtract 6dB of amplitude [...]

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