Hello!
There is a new world out here and everything is "Digital". Let's start with the Digital Workstation. Musician Audio Workstation, strictly does audio recording. You cannot surf the web, you cannot do power point, and don't even try to play video games. This might sound like an out dated recording tool. But one thing I must bring to your attention, this box rocks and it only does audio recordings. That's a good thing. It helps you stay focus. Specially when you are just beginning to learn the fundamentals of recording or working on a big project. When you are composing music you have to record it on tape or a hard drive, audio to digital. Get on it! IPOD, MP3 Players, etc...
If you are serious about your craft. Take class and learn the theory behind music and recording. I did! It's helpful. Hang out at the studio's and leave the beer and cigs at home. I don't want you to become substance abuser, before you create your first hit. Stay focus and keep writing.
Back to the audio machine. One of my favorite workstation is......... Drum Roll Please Please! Dit, dit, dat, dit, tic, tat,snap, tap tik, tik! Pull back the curtains. Here it is the Roland VS880 EX. Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! This machine is off the chain. I have heard beautiful music produced, composed, edited, mastered on this box. I like this box. You can put down your musical ideas. Especially if you are a musician. That means, you play an instrument from the Renaissance age. That means an instrument that originally made by hand. VS880 really helped me with my music and ability to write an album and to copyright it with the US Copyright Office. My place of birth, District of Columbia.
The Roland VS880 or V Studio's has a learning curve as well. So, put on your thinking cap and get to reading. This box can record, play back, locate, 2 effects channel, eq, virtual tracks, master mixes, etc....there are so many things going on in this box. "IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND. "I think I'm in the Matrix". It will make your head explode. Be careful. Patience, little one! Stick with it. And the art will find you.
One of my friends bought one for $100.00. He was stoked! He dove all in it and he's having lots of fun. Also, he purchased mics, cables, stands. He has a full on studio. On the flip side, another friend of mine bought one for $300.00 and gave up, he said his head was hurting. He was so frustrated he gave it away. I wish he gave it to me. I would have linked the VS880's together. And went to town. When you link them together that will give you more power more tracks, more mixes, more fun. Just to see the 2 devices synced together is an awesome event to experience. Wow! I'm losing it right now. I'll calm down! The VS880 is a wonderful little box, that pack a mighty punch. So there it is.
Talk to you later
Chris swann
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Friday, October 5, 2007
AV 101
Hello!
This week I'm at Orange County Fair Grounds. The client I'm working with is Nissan. I love there cars.
Ok, let talk Tech. We have a 16' x 9' screen. It's a good size and it' dressed out nice. We have 2 Barco CLM R10+ Projectors. One for Primary and the other for backup. In technology we have gremlins and they are nasty buggers. LOL. And don't forget 100' RGBHV cables. We carry lot's of cable. Then we have a DA 1 x 2. The DA takes 1 video input signal then turns it into 2 video output signals. What's nice on this show is the EXTRON USP 405. It's a swtcher that has a freeze frame button. When you are doing your powerpoint presentation, you switch on the freeze fame, the frame freezes on the screen, then you make your changes on the powerpoint, unfreeze and you back to pp on the screen.. Oh yea, we have PC1 and PC2, they are wire into the switcher VGA or RGBHV. The PC's provide video footage and pp. This is for the video techieees!
Now audio
I will start with the speakers. We have a total of 4 JBL's. 2 JBL EONs house left and 2 JBL EONs house right. I wired the system mono, next time I will do stereo because of the cool music that we're playing. Then we have 2 Yamaha Q2031B 31 band EQ, Letf and Right. You can really dig out those freq's. And we have 166XL compresser/limiter/Gate. Keep it tight! We call all these devises, outboard gear.
Ok! Are you ready! Here we go! The mixer! Spirit Folio 16 x 2. Our inputs are 1 lav, 1 handheld mic, pc 1 and pc 2, dvd, 1 applause meter mic, lap L, lap R, cd player for walk-in and walk-out music, abd backup dvd. So we are taken up 10 channels. Let's talk about the Master or Main faders or house faders. I'm using left master fader for house speakers (that's how I get my mono signal) and the master right fader for monitors. We have 2 Anchor AN-130 at our control booth. There several ways to wire up this mixer and mixer from all over the world. Remeber this is just one way to wire this mixer.
I have some good news for you up and coming techies, we have a new wireless mic system. We are using 5 Shure UR4S wireless receiver with audio reference companding. Go online and check it out. But what's cool about this unit is "no more searching for freq's, infared freq's finder and some other stuff that will blow your mind". Please check it out on the web.
And it comes with lav and a hh mic. And it sounds good. Yesaaa! Don forget power. I'm using 2 furman PL-Plus Power Condition. Ok, this is where I get off. I got do a show. Don't forget to check in.
Chris Swann
Swann Concepts
This week I'm at Orange County Fair Grounds. The client I'm working with is Nissan. I love there cars.
Ok, let talk Tech. We have a 16' x 9' screen. It's a good size and it' dressed out nice. We have 2 Barco CLM R10+ Projectors. One for Primary and the other for backup. In technology we have gremlins and they are nasty buggers. LOL. And don't forget 100' RGBHV cables. We carry lot's of cable. Then we have a DA 1 x 2. The DA takes 1 video input signal then turns it into 2 video output signals. What's nice on this show is the EXTRON USP 405. It's a swtcher that has a freeze frame button. When you are doing your powerpoint presentation, you switch on the freeze fame, the frame freezes on the screen, then you make your changes on the powerpoint, unfreeze and you back to pp on the screen.. Oh yea, we have PC1 and PC2, they are wire into the switcher VGA or RGBHV. The PC's provide video footage and pp. This is for the video techieees!
Now audio
I will start with the speakers. We have a total of 4 JBL's. 2 JBL EONs house left and 2 JBL EONs house right. I wired the system mono, next time I will do stereo because of the cool music that we're playing. Then we have 2 Yamaha Q2031B 31 band EQ, Letf and Right. You can really dig out those freq's. And we have 166XL compresser/limiter/Gate. Keep it tight! We call all these devises, outboard gear.
Ok! Are you ready! Here we go! The mixer! Spirit Folio 16 x 2. Our inputs are 1 lav, 1 handheld mic, pc 1 and pc 2, dvd, 1 applause meter mic, lap L, lap R, cd player for walk-in and walk-out music, abd backup dvd. So we are taken up 10 channels. Let's talk about the Master or Main faders or house faders. I'm using left master fader for house speakers (that's how I get my mono signal) and the master right fader for monitors. We have 2 Anchor AN-130 at our control booth. There several ways to wire up this mixer and mixer from all over the world. Remeber this is just one way to wire this mixer.
I have some good news for you up and coming techies, we have a new wireless mic system. We are using 5 Shure UR4S wireless receiver with audio reference companding. Go online and check it out. But what's cool about this unit is "no more searching for freq's, infared freq's finder and some other stuff that will blow your mind". Please check it out on the web.
And it comes with lav and a hh mic. And it sounds good. Yesaaa! Don forget power. I'm using 2 furman PL-Plus Power Condition. Ok, this is where I get off. I got do a show. Don't forget to check in.
Chris Swann
Swann Concepts
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Mixing Class 101
Location at the Locasta Resort. Tonight I'm mixing a 12 piece band. Also they have sheet music. Accomplished singers and musicians. Wow! Check this out. My mic mix just for you.
Mics sm57's and sm8's:
Kick, snare, hi-hat, 1tom, 2tom, floor tom, 2 over head, bass, Guitar, keys1 and keys2, tromp1, tromp2 and sax, vocal 1-2-3-4. So far so good. Dinner music is laid back in cut . Brazilian Style! low light and lots of smoke.
Light situation is kool:
2 trees with 8 can
1 bump switch
Intelligent lights
One Hog 1000
"JAND"And don't forget the power 6 X 20 circuits
I can't wait to turn it up. You will be surprize to know I'm mixing with an Allen&Heath mixwizard3 16:2. It gets the job done. And I have 2 monitor mixes. Front stage vocal monitor mix and back stage vocal monitor mix with alittle bass, guitar, keys and etc. Sometime the brass section want to be in the mix. For me to do that, I charge, sometimes, so I put tip jar right beside me if they want to be in the mix. LOL. I got to go. The rock set is on.
Mixing
Chris Swann
Mics sm57's and sm8's:
Kick, snare, hi-hat, 1tom, 2tom, floor tom, 2 over head, bass, Guitar, keys1 and keys2, tromp1, tromp2 and sax, vocal 1-2-3-4. So far so good. Dinner music is laid back in cut . Brazilian Style! low light and lots of smoke.
Light situation is kool:
2 trees with 8 can
1 bump switch
Intelligent lights
One Hog 1000
"JAND"And don't forget the power 6 X 20 circuits
I can't wait to turn it up. You will be surprize to know I'm mixing with an Allen&Heath mixwizard3 16:2. It gets the job done. And I have 2 monitor mixes. Front stage vocal monitor mix and back stage vocal monitor mix with alittle bass, guitar, keys and etc. Sometime the brass section want to be in the mix. For me to do that, I charge, sometimes, so I put tip jar right beside me if they want to be in the mix. LOL. I got to go. The rock set is on.
Mixing
Chris Swann
Friday, August 3, 2007
Digital World
Verisign makes a lot of money. They are a company that handles the transaction for purchasing domain names. Wow! Digital Giant.
Verrisign just won a contract with American Idol. They will monitor all persons that vote from home watching American Idol on tv, when diling the toll free number from a cell phone or a land line and chosing their favorite artist. Crazy! Wow! 3 millions plus veiwers. They are watching and ready.
Don't forget to visit elaineswann.com and watch the new NBC Morning News segment and make sure you listen to the podcast from her sindicated radio show (it's all about Life Style with Etiquette)
Chris Swann
Verrisign just won a contract with American Idol. They will monitor all persons that vote from home watching American Idol on tv, when diling the toll free number from a cell phone or a land line and chosing their favorite artist. Crazy! Wow! 3 millions plus veiwers. They are watching and ready.
Don't forget to visit elaineswann.com and watch the new NBC Morning News segment and make sure you listen to the podcast from her sindicated radio show (it's all about Life Style with Etiquette)
Chris Swann
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