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Comments:
The band
scene was fun, we all had a great time.
The sweat on your fingers before playing
the first song and the nervousness from
being on stage in front of a crowd, all
went away after seeing people actually
dancing and having a good time listening
to you. As much as I enjoyed entertaining,
I always had a fascination, while watching
the better groups perform, for the guy
that I would see off to the side using the
mixing console. Quite often I spent more
time watching him use the sliders and
knobs then the bands themselves.
Where
are they now?
It took me almost
30 years, but I finally went to school to
learn about Audio Engineering. The courses
offered at the Recording Institute of
Detroit teach you everything from the way
we hear sound, to the mics, amps and
speakers used to bring that sound to our
ears. Classes on music theory and
production are taught so that you can
obtain that good mixdown of what you're
recording. It's a lot of work but very
interesting at the same time. Being as I'm
still fairly new to this second career I'm
entering, there's still a few more pieces
of equipment to buy. None of this stuff
came cheap but the mics I want to buy will
be the most expensive. I have a Mackie
SR-24-4 buss mixing console. It can be
used for recording or live sound
reinforcement. I also have a Roland VS-840
eight channel digital mixer that is neat
because you can record onto a built in 100
megabite zip drive. With the Mackie, I'm
using an Alesis 8 track digital recorder
and I'm listening to the sound thru two
KRK V8 near field monitors. My other gear
includes: A Tascam 302 dual well 2 track
recorder, an Alesis Microverb 4 effects
processor, a Roland Dr 5 drum machine, an
Alesis 3630 compressor / limiter, a dbx
266xl compressor / limiter and an Alesis
MEQ-230 graphic equalizer. I also have a
32 pt. patch bay to help route the signals
and AKG 240 headphones to listen through
when I don't want to wake the wife up. The
microphones I use include a Shure Sm-57
and Beta 58 and some Digital Reference
cardioid mics. I'd still like to get some
better ones, but that will take some time
and money.
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