Jeremy helps out again

Jeremy Stark from no57s.com came by and installed the woofers in the NS-10s. He also installed a speaker select switch so we can use up to 4 near field monitors. He has been doing most of the tech work for us and has been a great help. He has graciously put up with the recycled cable that I have stored up over the last 10 years. We have placed many orders from redco, mouser, and made a few trips to "you blew it".... He has also done some recording and mixing here at The Bridge Sound and Stage with Math.
-Owen Curtin

New Mics Sound RIght

So Its 12:11 AM on Monday Still recording. I have a student to help out in studio D at 10AM and a meeting at 11, interview at 12:30, class at 12:30 and then again at 4. Home by 8 for dinner and try to keep touch base with the day's activities back at the bridge.

I am tracking a rehearsal for a band that is playing Church in a few days. I used the new Earth Works QTC40 (were the QTC1) match pair! Sounds amazing! Also my new Karma tom mics work quite good. The omni make the proximity effect no issue so I can get close enough to make it happen.

I also cut a deal for a Rosetta 800!!!! yes new converters are a nice thing. Can't wait to hear them!
So anyway that is the story. The bad has stopped playing. Oh and thanks to Steve and Tao for all your help tonight.

Peace,
Owen Curtin
www.thebridgesoundstage.com

New Work Updates from The Bridge


Well the Producer's desk has finally been completed, and set in place, and it is sure looking good. Thanks Ben for doing such great job!

In other news, work has begun on our diffuser, which we are looking very forward to hanging. Thanks go out to Diggits for his awesome job designing it.

If you want to see more photos of the studio, check out our Photobucket page. We will update it from time to time so you can all check out the progress in the studio. And as always be sure to check out what's going on with AR Classic Records.

Jesse Beaverson Demigod among Humans

What A Guy/ What A Class

Thanks to some HTML wizardry, i have solved the photo overlapping issues on the blog. The same issues that i single handedly created in the first place. In the future, anybody who wants to make a post within the blog should follow the template of a previously posted entry, i.e. copy and paste the source view of an older blog entry into your new entry, then go to the wysiwyg view, (where the copied and pasted content of the older template blog should appear) and then delete and reenter text/pictures in the appropriate places. This may seem redundant, which it is, so if you can make entries without all these steps by all means do so. This method is just a surefire way to avoid any formatting issues.

Owen taught a fairly good sized class here at The Bridge today, and it went well. Having a spacious studio packed with good equipment is certainly a better alternative to a cramped classroom with a couple mac's in it. The students got to set up and record live drums & also experiment with some different mic techniques, such as isolating the bass drum mic with some well placed freestanding gobos.

Ben also finished assembly on the first of 2 diffusor panels, and Janos and Owen seem excited about it. Mounting it on the wall before installing the bass traps underneath it should be interesting but he knows what hes doing.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Huge Live Room Sounds Like Concert Hall

String Quartet For a Film Score

Ben Phillippo came in to record several selections he composed for his film. Allan Espinosa and others played in this, out first session on the stage at The Bridge. The live room sounds so amazing. The Cascade Ribbon microphones set 20 feet back from the quartet gave a truly remarkable sound.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Any size band could record in this room

Live Stage to Record your Band

So as you can see, the live space is a beautifully large. We have room in here for a marching band! That fort of gobos / sound baffles was made from Ready Acoustics frames. They worked quite well for isolating a guitar amp from the drum set you can see on the stage. The sound of the room mic placed at the camera’s perspective sounds more like delay. Adding that mic to the mix can not even be compared to reverb effects.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Power

The Otari Status

It takes a lot of cable to move the PSU into the mech. room. Terry was kind to get this job started for us. We are moving all the amps and PSU for the Otari Status out of the control room. We hope this will let us use a bit less AC in the studio.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Rack Time

Rack Time

Ben Foote is hard at work building the rack / producers desk. Work still goes on. We just finished a film for http://www.bellarosefilms.com

Monday, February 9, 2009

Live Room Plans

Diffusion and Absorption


We have not finalized the plans but we are looking at diffusion along the far wall and wood floors. Also a Curtain to pull along the wall. Mike McDiggitz helped us by creating a spread sheet that determines the ideal Quadratic diffuser or any span. See it here.

Friday, February 13, 2009

Control Room View

Moving Along

The Rack is in place and tv is up. Thank you Ben Foote. The console is working great as well thanks to Andrew Lypps.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Live Room Stage

                           Naked Chips

Jon, Jake, Chris and Ryan came in for 36 hours of recording and overdubs. In the end we got a great thank you note.

“Thanks again for your suggestions, and for giving us a kickass recording. We really appreciate it, and hopefully will work together sometime in the near future.

Your feedback saved our music. All the overdubs, new parts, re-written solos, it all made a huge difference.

Thanks man,
Chris”

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Live Stage to Record Your Band

                                                         Any size band could record in this room

      So as you can see, the live space is a beautifully large. We have room in here for a marching band! That fort of gobos / sound baffles was made from Ready Acoustics frames. They worked quite well for isolating a guitar amp from the drum set you can see on the stage. The sound of the room mic placed at the camera’s    perspective sounds more like delay. Adding that mic to the mix can not even be compared to reverb effects.

 Monday, March 2, 2009

                                                                    
                                   

Overdubs

I miss our Yamaha NS-10s

Looking at the photo from the Naked Chips overdub session reminds me that I can’t wait until the NS-10 woofers show up in the mail. It was still a great session working with these guys. They have some serious musicianship in that band. I think they may be using http://www.merch-music.com/ to create CD download codes. They could then put the codes onto Tee Shirts or Frisbees and sell the code and product as one fun and inexpensive item.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

New Carpet

Adding this platform gives a good view of the live room and the console from the back of the control room. Thanks to paul for helping us with the carpet.

Platform for producers desk

Monday, January 5, 2009

Moving Along

The Rack is in place and tv is up. Thank you Ben Foote. The console is working great as well thanks to Andrew Lypps.

Control Room View

Wednesday, February 25, 2009