The latest happenings at ULS
Twenty years before Thomas Edison’s great breakthrough in recorded sound, another inventor first conceived of a method of “writing” sound on a blackened piece of paper. But he never intended that his recordings would be played back with a machine. Is it possible to enjoy music that you can’t even hear?
The debut CD from D.C.-based Norteño band Los Ilegales de Lempira, a client of our studio, is now available on iTunes, Amazon, and the other digital download and streaming services. Check it out!
Sennheiser’s MD421 dynamic microphone is a workhorse microphone. Originally intended as a general-use microphone for vocals and instruments, along the way it gained “killer app” status on tom drums. An unintended defect in the mic’s design, though, has been killing tom drums ever since. Here’s a little history on this famous microphone, and a neat little hack that semi-permanently solves a problem that drives audio engineers nuts.
Some sort of strange celestial event happened right over our heads this afternoon. And just as quickly as it started, it was gone.
We’re at the end of a very productive week of recording for A Time Will Come For Singing, the 22-year old Christmas album I told you about in an earlier series of posts. We’ve got some great stuff down on the hard drives, and we’re excited about next steps!
Yesterday, I told you about the St. Petronille Contemporary Choir and their 1995 album, A Time Will Come For Singing — its origins, production, and legacy. Today, I’d like to tell you about my…er…non-involvement with the original project, and where we are today.
My buddy Paul Sirvatka is coming back this week. We’ve got a huge project we’ve decided to take on. If we manage to pull it off, it will be more than two decades in the making.
We are pleased to announce that the debut album from DC’s own Los Ilegales de Lempira, Tequila y Bucana, is now available!
The history of communications in the US over the past 100 years is absolutely littered with products that were either invented or perfected by Motorola: the car radio, for starters, but also the walkie-talkie, the pager, the cell phone, and, thanks to Motorola’s work with NASA, the “first car radio on the moon.”
It’s late March here in the DC area, and the weather is already getting warmer. Things always calm down a little bit after Pinewood Derby and high school hockey seasons are over, and it’s nice to have the opportunity to relax a bit. This week, I’m happy to be working and hanging out (well, mostly hanging out) with my good, longtime friend, Paul Sirvatka.
