These guidelines layed out by the P&E Wing focus mainly on how the engineer/operator can organize, clean up, and save their project/session data at the end of the day to make the next person’s job a lot easier. When followed, they can eliminate much confusion for all operators, provide answers to anticipated questions, solve certain problems before they arise, and shorten the time between when an operator opens a project/session and when they are able to go to work. In other words, put more $$$ in your pocket by streamlining your workflow. READ MORE

RML Labs, the creator of the Software Audio Console (SAC for short), is a software development company that has turned a Windows PC into a powerful virtual live mixing environment. This video shows the setup for a show at the MGM incorporating the SAC console.

Recording brass instruments in studio is certainly is no easy task, especially if you want to record live and two of the brass players also sing backing vocals. In short, a demanding challenge for George Massenburg who explains to us what he did to avoid problems in this particular situation.

In house-of-worship sound system installations, one of the biggest challenges is miking the choir. We want to achieve a good balance, a natural sound, and high gain before feedback. Another goal is to make sure that the microphones are invisible! It’s a tough assignment. READ MORE

The Triton features an integrated 16 track linear and pattern sequencer system and a 16 part multi-timbral synth engine that draws on sampled waveforms stored on ROM chips. It excels at lush pads and does a good job with acoustic instruments as well. Check out this video demoing some of the great things you can do with the Triton. The CRAS Digital Lab is open to all students during project hours at both locations.

Getting all the parts of a mix to fit nicely together, and a few simple compression and EQ techniques can help. READ MORE

Evenly spaced overheads? Close-miked drums? HOGWASH!! This video features George Massenburg and some interesting and great sounding techniques for recording drums.

Stereo simply means the mix has two channels (left and right). A mono mix is simply one channel. You combine (or sum) the left and right channels into a single channel. Listening to mixes in mono can be very helpful. I’ll explain why. READ MORE