Taking advantage of my lens renewal and return to the only real sponsorship I’ve had, by the optics of the Serrano family, I remembered the phrase “without glasses, I do not hear well”. This based on a real feeling, which came to my mind when the eye operations began to become more routine and the family ophthalmologist asked me if…
The other day someone posted a quote by engineer and musician Alan Parsons who said “The audiophiles do not use their equipment to listen to our music, they use our music to listen to their equipment” with which I agree partially, since in some cases it is true and as in all things, there are other cases where they really…
I always like to make the analogy between audio and the culinary, not only for being things that one takes for granted but because it can be a tasty way to explain how our profession works. One of my favorite dishes is the “pasticho” and I will use it to explain some of the audio steps of a song. …
Each profession has its particularities and could be determined by the contents of the purse, fanny pack, koala, backpack or briefcase of each of its representatives. In our case, thanks to technology, many items in that bag have been reduced, others have disappeared and new ones have emerged. Surely some will match my list, others will not, but I find…
It seems ironic, but one of the things that a sound engineer appreciates most, like the character of Sandra Bullock in the movie “Gravity” in the middle of space, is silence. We may never hear that sidereal vacuum completely. Moreover, few sites are below 35 dbA of noise level, but it is enough to satisfy our search and emotional peace.…
When the other day I received the manufactured copy of a disc that we just finished, I was surprised by the sound when I heard it on iTunes®, which is the program that has my default computer to play a compact disc. It sounded brighter, there was something in the highs that was not what I remembered. I took it…
When I finished my presentation of HA2014, some people approached me to ask me for titles of albums that sound good, that I consider to be “reference”. I can think of “Quartet” by Pat Metheny Group (recorded and mixed by Rob Eaton), “Hourglass” by James Taylor (recorded and mixed by Frank Filipetti) or “Badlands” by Peter Erskine (recorded and mixed…
The other day a video came out of a concert where the images were good but the audio was terrible. You can see that somebody tried to record this concert with great care, and I mean there were several cameras and at the same time, the microphone was dedicated. Someone was given the task of editing the images, placing the…