Archive for September, 2009

Monday, September 28th, 2009

CRAS Instructors Travel to Teach

This month two Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences (CRAS) instructors headed in different directions to share their knowledge as guest instructors at special training events.
Sound Reinforcement department head Keith Morris headed east to St. Louis to join 6 time TEC award winning live sound engineer Robert Scovill for The Complete Front of House Engineer [...]

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Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Special Recording Session with Fender VP

Mike Lewis, vice president of product marketing at Fender joined CRAS for a special recording session in Tempe Studio A on 9/17/2009. Director of education Mike Jones ran the show with the help of CRAS students. So why is a VP at Fender playing a beautiful Gretsch guitar? Simple… Fender markets, produces, and [...]

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Saturday, September 12th, 2009

Meet the Fairlight CC-1 and Xynergi

This high-end system from Australia offers full HD video and hi-res audio production at a fraction of the price of other workstations. It’s based on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology currently used in consoles from Digico and Calrec.

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Friday, September 4th, 2009

Audio Legend Eddie Kramer visits CRAS

Legendary audio engineer Eddie Kramer visited CRAS for an event open to the public on September 3rd 2009.  Eddie was warmly welcomed by a packed house of several hundred people for the Waves sponsored event held in the Conservatory’s live sound room.  Eddie told tales of his work with Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and more [...]

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