Last Summer my friend Ben Poff, who is a fellow graduate student at MTSU, enlisted my help with engineering the tracking sessions for his MFA Final Project. One of the songs, Sweat Tea, was released on a companion CD for Devon O’Day and Brian Curtis’ “My Southern Food,” a cookbook about the best food in the world. Read all about the project here…

and have a listen.

Enjoy!

Checkout the soundtrack here...

…and the book here.

This shoot was a small part of the documentary “Zero Days Until Launch” produced by MTSU in partnership with Nashville Public T.V. The documentary is in post-production and should air sometime in the early part of this year. This was a multi-cam truck shoot with a crew of 20. As A1, my job was to record audio of the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis.

Check out the mixonline article about the recording..

America – Anniston, AL Freelance – 2008 Ventura Highway 0:00 / 0:00 A Horse With No Name 0:00 / 0:00

America - Anniston AL 12 Photos

I recorded this show in exactly the same as I did on Fiddler on the Roof. A full write up would be rather redundant, so please, enjoy the sights and sounds. Special thanks to Jeff Worrell, from America’s production team, for helping make this recording possible.

View From Monitor World

Recorded at MTSU Studio A – March 2009 Only Girl in the World 0:00 / 0:00 Danny Boy 0:00 / 0:00

RagTag Quartet 3 Photos

The RagTag quartet is a traditional Barber Shoppe quartet from Nashville Tn. We created these3 recordings at MTSU in the class Production Seminar I, which is first year MFA. We chose the RagTag Quartet because it was something different. Most everyone records rock or pop music around here.

Two approaches, or production methodologies, were considered leading up to the sessions, an ensemble approach and an individual approach. The ensemble approach would utilize stereo microphone techniques to capture the whole quartet to a pair of tracks. The individual approach uses a separate mic for each person in the ensemble recorded to separate tracks. Both have their various strengths and weaknesses. Current production trends, especially in the studio environment, would often dictate that we take the individual approach which would allow us to exercise the control, and propensity for non-committal processing, allowed by computer recording technology. Read more…

Recorded at MTSU Studios A and B – April 2009 Learn To Cope 0:00 / 0:00 I Don't Need You 0:00 / 0:00

Austin Ellis 12 Photos   Session Report

Man I dig this stuff! Austin and his band have a very smooth, organic hip-hop kind of sound, which can be fun from a production point of view. Not only can you work from the perspective of purity, or recording natural sounds and performances, but this is a wonderful opportunity to combine that perspective, with electronic production techniques. Our goal is to capture the natural feel of the band playing, and maintain a sound that resonates with hip-hop overtones. The instrumentation for these recordings consisted of drum kit, electric bass, electric guitar, acoustic guitar and vocals.

In the planning stages we decided that we wanted to capture as much of a live performance of each of the three tunes as we could. Once we has a solid performance, we could then go back and massage the songs into their final versions via editing and overdubbing. However, everyone involved had day jobs and the studio time was booked at times the space was available. I believe there was a 12am – 8am session in there. In the end we basically had to make progress on each song at the mercy of what, and who, was available at the moment. Read more…

If you have spent any time at all investigating the various stereo microphone techniques you have undoubtedly come across the concept of M/S recording. The technique requires one cardioid mic and one bidirectional, or figure eight, mic. The microphones are placed so that there are three “lobes”, two focused to the sides ( the figure eight mic), and one focused forward ( the cardioid), and fits in between the side lobes, e.g. mid.

Here is a picture borrowed from electronic musician.

The stereo image is produced by manipulating the phase differences and similarities between the two sources.  But first, lets dig into our knowledge of basic acoustics and remember that Read more…

Sr. Practicum – Jacksonville State University – March 2008 Sabbath Prayer 0:00 / 0:00

Fiddler 13 Photos

The audio recording of Fiddler was part of my final project at Jacksonville State University. It was actually two classes; Special Problems in Drama + Sr. Practicum = six credit hours of independent study. The result of the classes is a minimum 40 page paper detailing the plan, the execution, and the experience.. The first part of the project was to handle all of the live audio needs of the production, and second to make a multi-track recording of it. One of the first challenges is to find ways to accomplish both goals with one engineer – myself.

Jason Bozman - Gadsden AL

Even though the recording of the show is forever and the experience repeatable, the live audio production is paramount to the recording. One reason is that we only get one shot at any given one of the fifteen or so performances. For the recording, only one of those performances has to be a keeper. But perhaps the most important reason to give priority to the live audio production is the audience, who paid good money to be there. Read more…

Recorded at Trevecca Studios – January 2009.………………. Midnight Train 0:00 / 0:00 Cinderella Blues 0:00 / 0:00

The Slips Session Photos 33 Photos

Six songs were recorded over two marathon days in January of 2008 at Trevecca Studios on the campus of Trevecca Nazarene University. They have a fantastic recording studio at the school even though some may see it as modest. You will not find an Solid State Logic or Trident console, 24 track two inch machines, or even a ProTools HD rig. However, you will find a very well planned and cost effective compliment of equipment. Simply put, the gear selection is down right smart. Read more…