Archive for November, 2008

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Free DIY Mic Mod For ES-58

Quick and Easy Do-it-Yourself Mod for Popular Low-Cost Dynamic Microphone

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Friday, November 28th, 2008

Burbank Studio Managed By Grad

In less than a year, 12/07 grad Greg Ruoff has parlayed his CRAS education into a successful career as a studio manager at Ocean Studios in Burbank California. Ocean has hosted some of the biggest names in the business including producer/engineer Jerry Finn, Amy Lee of Evanescence, Steve Berlin of Los Lobos and Jim Adkins [...]

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Friday, November 28th, 2008

Mixing In The D Room

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Friday, November 28th, 2008

CRAS At Night

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Friday, November 28th, 2008

Recording Sammy Hagar Live

Check out this video from Presonus featuring Sammy Hagar’s FOH engineer explaining how he records the band live. The Conservatory uses Presonus gear in many of its studios and classrooms. As part of the live sound curriculum, CRAS students learn to fly a line array, set up a stage for live sound reinforcement and recording, [...]

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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

SSL Users Dominate AMA Awards

SSL users were among the majority of nominees and winners at the recent 36th annual “American Music Awards” (AMAs). The star studded event was broadcast live on ABC from the NOKIA Theatre in Los Angeles and featured 43 artists and projects competing in 23 categories, with 60% of the nominees and 74% of the winners [...]

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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Grads Rockin’ On The Road

photo caption: Nickelback is just one of the touring bands employing CRAS grads Our MRPII grads have done very well for themselves. The list of CRAS attendees below have gone on to their internships and then been hired to work on major tours or with live sound companies. On Tour Jeremy White, PA Tech – [...]

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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Meet The Reaper

REAPER is a fully featured, cross-platform (Mac/PC) multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment that is only $50, has no dongle or copy protection and can be tested for 30 days with full functionality. Features include a 64 bit audio engine and signal path, low-latency single and multiprocessor performance and stability, [...]

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Thursday, November 6th, 2008

7 Magnificent (and free) Plug-ins

We recently wrote about a free plug-in from SSL but now we’ve hit the motherlode of gratis DAW resources. Massey Tools is a group of 7 free TDM and RTAS plug-ins from the mind of Steven Massey, a self confessed audio geek who’s been involved in the pro audio industry for over 7 years. Steven [...]

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Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Facing The Music

I’m speechless

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