Author Archive
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
The Force Is Strong in Rodney Gates
Rodney exuded a lot of passion for his chosen career path, which is understandable when your job is to warp, twist and pitch a squawking flock of geese into eerie indiscernible undertones of alien worlds!
No Comments » - Posted in Game Audio,Grad Spotlight by Brock
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
George Kemper Speeds to Success with NASCAR
NASCAR rookie driver Trevor Bayne wasn’t the only one to come out a winner at the Daytona 500. George Kemper, a recent graduate of the Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences (CRAS) also made his mark. Like so many CRAS students before him, George Kemper studied hard and practiced so that when the time came, he could [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Grad Spotlight by Brock
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
Major Event Production Company PRG Visits CRAS
February 2011 – CRAS graduate and shop manager at PRG (Production Resource Group) – Las Vegas visited the Conservatory and he didn’t come empty handed! He brought an entire semi truck loaded with the latest in sound reinforcement technologies that his company uses in support of major tours, Las Vegas shows, Broadway productions and more. CRAS [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Live Sound Spotlight,Special Events by Brock
Monday, January 24th, 2011
CRAS Goes to NAMM
Every January thousands of people connected to making, selling or buying anything related to the process of making music gather in Anneheim California for a gearfest called the Summer NAMM show. NAMM is also a great excuse for internship coordinators Jayson Khademi and Greg Stefus to travel to SoCal to rub shoulders with CRAS graduates, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in News by Brock
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
API Update: 1 Down 1 to Go
The massive process of replacing not one, but two large format analog mixing consoles is beyond its halfway point. The first of two 48 channel API Legacy Plus consoles has successfully replaced the venerable Neve VR at the Gilbert location by completing it’s first week of duties under the hands of CRAS instructors and students. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Gear Spotlight,News by Brock
Friday, January 7th, 2011
Amped Up For The New Year
For 2011 CRAS has upgraded the amps used with the state of the art L-Acoustics Kudo speaker system used at the Gilbert location’s live sound room. The 6 new L-Acoustics LA8 amplifiers each provide 4 channels of output and contain all of the digital signal processing for filters and time alignment. The LA8′s receive their [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Gear Spotlight,Live Sound Spotlight,News by Brock
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
Tom Petty Helps Students Find Their MOJO
The Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences took a select group of students to U.S. Airways Arena in downtown Phoenix to observe the setup for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ MOJO tour concert date on September 26th, 2010. CRAS was the guest of Petty’s front of house sound engineer and 6 time TEC award winner Robert [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Live Sound Spotlight,Special Events by Brock
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Class Spotlight: Scoring Session
Conservatory students in the 7th cycle (weeks 19-21) of the program spend 3 days a week focusing on audio post production, the process of enhancing videos and movies with sound. On this particular day (July 7, 2010) students are involved in a brass ensemble scoring session in Studio C at CRAS’s Gilbert location. In the [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Classroom Spotlight by Brock
Monday, June 21st, 2010
CRAS Gear Website Goes Online
The Conservatory is proud to announce the opening of our new CRAS Gear Website. The website will feature all of our standard t-shirt designs as well as new designs, and limited edition prints designed by your fellow classmates. The web address is www.zazzle.com/CRASGear. CRAS plans to release new designs often. Many of these designs will only [...]
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Friday, June 4th, 2010
No-Shock-Zone!
Mike Sokol of Fits & Starts Productions brought his No-Shock-Zone clinic to the Conservatory’s live sound room on June 3rd, 2010. Sokol, an electrical and sound expert, used various metering devices as well as his own custom built tools to demonstrate why people get shocked on stage or in studios and how to avoid it. He [...]
