Technical Audio Services, Inc.
Technical Audio Services Offers 30 Years+ Experience in Recording Studio Acoustical Design and Consultation, Maintenance, Repair and Installation.
A nice nod from one of our favorite clients…Why am I posting a photo of a ragged strip of tape on my studio floor?
After we sold our studios at Concentrix, we began the process of designing my new rooms here at home. David Rochester at Technical Audio Services got the call...again. (This is the third studio he's built for me.) Fortunately we had the perfect space for a composing/mixing room - plenty of square footage and a 14 1/2 foot cathedral ceiling. Since this room was going to be 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos capable (requiring a total of 12 speakers), acoustics were especially important. So how did we start?
We started with that piece of tape. David corralled the specs for the size of my workstation desk, space requirements behind it for a video monitor and wiring traces, where the equipment rack would be, etc. The location of every little thing in the room was mapped out down to the fraction of an inch - all to determine one thing...the mix position. Speakers would be mounted based on this all-important factor.
Once this was determined...down went that piece of tape. Everything in the studio was positioned in relation to it. When I'm centered on that piece of blue tape, I'm in the perfect spot to insure that everything I mix sounds great out in the world.
As they used to say at NASA, David Rochester is one steely-eyed missile man. After over three years, that piece of tape may look tattered, but I don't have the heart to remove it. It'll be there until time (and the wheels of my studio chair) erase it for good.
In my silly, philosophical moments - I imagine it as a metaphor for being centered in other things as well.
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He's a Goodun for sure.
He da man. Guru.
Got this AMEK 9098i gone through and checked out at Power Station Studios in Pompano FL over the past few days. All systems are go! Was great to hang with all the guys there. Good folks!
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Had a rare day off in FL, so was able to have lunch with a couple of long time friends (who had never met). Cannibal Corpse guitarist and recording engineer / producer Erik Rutan, and recording engineer (Deep Purple, Carcass, many others) and great technician Keith Andrews. We talked and laughed about what we each went through to get into the recording industry. Honored to be their friend!
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They just don’t know what Engineering Royalty they are in the Presence of….
Is Alan in this photo ?
Hi boys!!