Outstanding Sound Services

03/20/2020

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With concerns about COVID-19 canceling gatherings of all sizes, from SXSW to the Pearl Jam tour, musicians might be finding their own gigs also canceled or suddenly playing to an empty house. In this new and temporary era of social distance, live streaming your band’s performances might be the sol...

05/24/2019

We have developed a new high efficiency workflow to support production of live performance videos. Instead of utilizing a double system methodology which requires a significant amount of work in post, we now utilize audio interfaces with on board DSP and digital mixing to send a high resolution stereo signal directly to camera with zero latency.
My Canon HD video cameras also support direct line level inputs, bypassing their rather poor mic pres.
Here is a sample of a recording of a baroque chamber recital. The audio was straight from the video. No mixing or no syncing to reference track.
The result is high quality sound in sync to picture, so we can turnaround videos within days instead of weeks.

"Wizards of Saxony" Recorded live Saturday May 11, 2019 Second Church Newton MA

05/07/2018

Recording a classical/jazz mashup concert on Sunday at Indian Hill Music.

01/05/2018

I did this soundtrack recording of a contemporary string quartet for broadcast on WMBR 88.1 FM.

Semiosis Quartet performs Steven Snowden's Bird Catching from Above at Make Shift Boston on December 15th, 2017. Nicole Parks and Kyra Davies, violins Lauren...

11/19/2017

Super mics. These Earthworks QTC40s are without a doubt the most amazing condenser microphones I have ever used. Incredible resolution, sensitivity and accuracy. I used them as the main stereo pair to record a woodwind and piano concert last night.

11/19/2017

Insanely good signal path. The Earthworks 1024 mic pre alongside my Grace m101, recording chamber music in Boston last night.

10/23/2017

Running around the West Side with some of my sound buddies.

10/23/2017

I am not worthy. In the company of the Master, Eddie Kramer, producer of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Woodstock the Album, the Rolling Stones and Led Zep.

10/13/2017

We've recently begun recording live concerts at St. John's Episcopal in Jamaica Plain as part of the JP Concerts Series. Here is a preliminary mix of Charles Ives' Largo for Violin, Clarinet and Piano we did of the October 7th concert, the New England Chamber Players performing.

Recorded live Saturday October 7, 2017 at St. John's Episcopal Church in Boston as part of the Fall 2017 JP Concerts Series. Performed by the New England Chamber Players Thomas Weaver, Piano Heather

09/16/2017

Testing an audio workflow for live streaming.
Tonight I did a test using a TASCAM hand held high resolution audio recorder to make a stereo recording of the Mirror Visions Ensemble, a classical vocal trio based in New York.
The audio turned out OK, but there is a problem in that the line out of the recorder delivers a feed with significant digital artifacts and distortion. In my planned workflow, the recorder's line out would feed audio to the live stream video camera. If it is distorted, the live stream will suck.
I am going to have to go back to the drawing boards to find another solution before going live.
This is why I test. Things might look good on paper, but not really work in production.

09/06/2017

I realize it's been a while, but good things are about to happen.
I have been working on engineering and video enabling several podcasts.
I am also all over Live Streaming.
Stay tuned. More to come real soon.

06/12/2012

A project for the University of Massachusetts we mixed and did location sound for last month. Check out the sound quality on the interview of Governor Patrick.