Custom A/B Yoke

For the A/B speaker system at An American in Paris, we wanted the A and B systems (UPA-1Cs and MSL-2s) to be as close together as possible, so, with engineering input and approval by others, we designed a custom yoke:

Yoke Overview
Yoke Overview

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Current Projects

Last month I worked with Steven Cahill on Sleeping Beauty and Her Winter Knight at The Pasadena Playhouse. Now I’m back in New York, working with Jon Weston and Jason Strangfeld on On the Twentieth Century on Broadway.

Mixing a Musical on a DM2000

The vocals in The Circus in Winter were like Sondheim from a mixer’s perspective: lots of people and groups of people speaking and overlapping within a page. It would have been difficult to consistently mix vocals for the complex sequences on input faders, and there was a bluegrass/rock band onstage with several musicians doubling instruments to add to the workload. The … Read more

Upcoming work with Steven Cahill

For the next few weeks I’ll be working with sound designer / composer Steven Cahill on two projects: I’ll be helping with sound effects and backgrounds for the new film Dragons of Camelot, and I’ll be the associate sound designer for Family Planning, a new play at The Colony Theatre in Burbank.

Recent Projects

I haven’t updated in a bit, but I’ve been very busy. Over the summer I continued working at Thinkwell on audio systems for theme parks and spectacle shows. This fall, I was sound designer for Alice in Bed at Carnegie Mellon. A group of us composed music for Epiphany, a new video game from Carnegie Mellon’s ETC. I worked on … Read more

MAPP Mirror Software: Mirror Loudspeakers Across a Specified Line in an Existing MAPP XML

In June I wrote a piece of software that will take all of the loudspeakers in a MAPP XML file and mirror them across a line. The most common use for this is in venues with a significant surround system that is symmetrical about the center line of the venue, though it has also come in handy for stadia with two axes of symmetry. To use, just open the MAPP Mirror application, select the original XML, and go through the options.

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