by beachraven | Oct 17, 2020
Monterey Bay, Monterey, California When something isn’t working in the recording studio, it can be a task to figure out what’s wrong. The first thing we do is follow the signal flow from one point to another until we find the breakpoint, but often...
by beachraven | Oct 10, 2020
Redwood Forest, Big Sur, California It had been a crazy day at work, not unlike most days, I suppose. I was late to my meditation group that evening, and when I pulled up, most of the others were already filtering in the door. I grabbed a sitting pillow and...
by beachraven | Oct 3, 2020
Premier 100 Guitar Amplifier Volume gets everyone’s attention. It’s powerful, and all too often, can’t be ignored. You can hide in loud. In the recording studio, loud covers the truth of low energy, bad performance, and weak songs in the same...
by beachraven | Sep 25, 2020
Fisherman’s Wharf, Monterey, California She sat there on those steps most afternoons, reading a book checked out from the library down the street. I walked past her several times a week for months, and I couldn’t quite figure her out, because she...
by beachraven | Sep 18, 2020
Monterey Bay, Monterey, California I’ve mixed the audio for thousands of TV commercials. One of my favorite campaigns, from the fall of 1992, was produced by ad-agency Weiden+Kennedy and directed by Joe Pytka. Unlike most of the sessions I mixed in that...
