The Groundwater animation has been a big hit around the nation with kids and teachers. I just finished a remix without vocals so that one school can do a musical version of it!
Author: mike
The racks (complete with all of that delicious vintage gear) are now at the back of the control room making the room symmetrical. The patch bay has been redone so that the advent of Digital Audio Workstations has been taken into account 🙂 — Now you mix on the left side of the 80B and can start as soon as you are tracking.
Pix to follow.
But that’s OK, because it’s about the sound.
The last few days has not been so visually exciting, but much has been accomplished. While Jay was tearing apart the patch bay and verifying where all of the wires were going, I was trying to get all the gear moved around into the 3 racks we have … and redesigning the patch bay several ( or 4 or 5) times, as we found out what was there and how “it’s usually done” according to Jay, who’s done it a number if times.
Last night we pulled the first wires through the pipes under the floor, cleverly put there just for this purpose. Progress! Here’s a shot of the punch block where Jay attaches the wires:
OK. Gotta go back to work!
I started pulling things off the racks today, didn’t get very far but tomorrow we roll up our sleeves and really dig into things.
Here are some ‘before’ pix:
… and cranked it to 11. Oh, yeah, rock. AND roll!
It’s the Bryston 4B SST. A monster. A Beast.
It feeds the big speakers here (also monsters in their own right!):
Eric Howk (Lashes) is in Soundhouse right now assisted by Eric Corson and John Roderick (The Long Winters).
This is day 3. This morning Eric C said things were going well … “we’re ahead”.
At least I think he didn’t mean, “we’re a head”.
Soundhouse got a new toy. You will be pleased, it’s an update long overdue.
Last month we installed the new ProTools 9 rig with new Mytek 8×192 converters!
I took it for a test run – recording at 176.4 kHz – without a hiccup (Except for one error that we later realized was caused by writing to the system disk!) with Seattle band Lark Vs. Owl.
Sounds FANTASTIC!
Jack says, “I love it”.
You will, too. Of course, we still have the [lonely] Studer 24 track.
Stay tuned for more updates and more of what’s going on…
If you’ve come to this page, please come again!
A little later we’ll have a party with snacks and drinks and the like, but right now we’re in the midst of getting ready and you’ve caught us with our pants down!
Thank you,
Soundhouse