Ballad to the North Wind Project
To Inspire and Empower more Women in Music. The Ballad to the North Wind multi-media package brings unity, empowerment, story tell and women in music together for a glorious celebration! Ballad to the...
View ArticleBeginner’s Guide To Recording Drums
Recording drums is widely regarded as one of the trickiest skills to learn for a studio engineer. This is because there is a lot of equipment to set up, specific techniques to grasp, and a lot of...
View ArticleAcoustemology?
During these last months of 2020, I started a master’s degree that has pleasantly surprised me, and although it seems to be unrelated to my professional facet of audio, studying “cultural...
View ArticleDo I Still Know How To Do My Job?
My last mixing FOH for a real audience was January 8, 2020. For some reason I feel a necessity to write down a year as well, being afraid that if this stand-still stays longer than we all hope I’ll...
View ArticleDispelling the Inaccuracies of Hearing Loss in Sound of Metal
Dispelling the inaccuracies of hearing loss in Sound of Metal. As an audiologist for the past 24 years with 13 of those years focused on the specialized hearing needs of musicians, sound engineers,...
View ArticleLooking Back on Changes by Charles Bradley
When Charles Bradley’s final album, Changes, was released in April of 2016, I had it on repeat for months and months. It felt prophetic. As the political and social landscape became increasingly...
View ArticleMaking Moves to Make Money
How making lateral career changes within the industry will keep you paying your bills. “Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is...
View ArticleOn Aesthetic Distance & Virtual Live Performance
In a theater, sound design is a mode of transportation into the world of the story. As we adapt to creating virtual live performances, however, we are up against greater challenges in effectively...
View ArticleWorking with Hands from Uber Works
2020 brought a variety of topics concerning gig workers in the US to light. From addressing unemployment for independent contractors to the House of Representatives introducing the P.R.O Act, Covid-19...
View ArticleMaking Sonic Magic from Auditory Illusions
So, if a tree falls in the woods, perhaps it makes infinite sounds A few years ago, I attended a talk on wave field synthesis, and to say I was captivated feels like a sorry understatement. Wave...
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