Wimberley - Texas Retreat At The Rock Presenter Information

 

Massenburg will discuss the evolution of quality standards in recorded music since 1992 from three points of view: the technical, the artistic, and the "business model." Centering on demonstrations both of "loudness" and of what MP3s really sound like, the conversation will cover how a generation of listeners has grown accustomed to the destructive artifacts inherent to the badly-coded mp3 medium as well as the horrific "level wars" in mastering.  Covered will be differences in the way that recordings are made, such as changes in production methodologies and the perception of a music recording's value, as well as the marketplace evolution from label-driven to artist-driven incentives and revenue concentration.  Listenings of various classic and modern artists will compare and contrast as we explore the phenomenon of the 20-year de-evolution of the modern record business, the consolidation and buyouts of major labels from 1988-1992, and the resulting abandonment of substantive quality criteria.

Lamm is the owner of Cryptic Globe Recording Custom DAW’s and Technical Consulting. He has been a freelance engineer/producer/guitarist since 1989. He received a GRAMMY for engineering Alive And Transported by Toby Mac. Lamm was the owner of CGR Studios in Nashville, Tenn. from 2005-2009.

Lamm will discuss how producers and engineers work with digital and analog gear today and how they get the best productivity and use out of the combination. He will focus on PC based computer workstations (especially some of the latest technology from AMD), Nuendo (and other native DAW’s), DAW controllers, and analog mixers and outboard gear. He will also speak about his experience building and integrating CGR Studios (on a budget).   

 

Producer/mixer Tim Palmer is one of alternative rock's unsung heroes. For 25 years he has been producing diverse artists such as David Bowie, Robert Plant, Switchfoot, HIM and Tears for Fears. Tim has written songs with Ozzy Osbourne and the Goo Goo Dolls and has mixed albums for many artists including Pearl Jam, U2, and The Cure. Palmer was nominated for a GRAMMY for his work on U2's All That You Can't Leave Behind. 

 

 Tim will discuss how the job description of a music producer is hard to nail down, the varied tasks the job brings, and how the industry has changed the way producers and engineers must approach it.    

 

Peter Reardon is the president and founder of Shadow Hills Industries. He is the former president of Waxploitation Records. Reardon has produced, and mixed Choclair, Old Dirty Bastard, Rebekah, Clawfinger, Chris Vrenna, and Zurkok .He has remixed singles for The Barenaked Ladies, The Cult, Fear Factory, Scarface, The Geto Boys, Josh Wink, Ben Vaughn and Control Machete. He engineered Coolio's “Gangsta's Paradise, ”The Geto Boys," “My Mind Playin Tricks On Me," and Scarface's “Mr. Scarface is Back.”

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Neve learned about transformer design with specialist manufacturing companies and in 1961 he founded the NEVE Companies. Rupert designed and manufactured professional audio equipment for the Recording, T.V., Film and Broadcast Industries worldwide. The famous Neve consoles and module designs originated during these years including, for example, the famous 8078, 8068 consoles and the 1073 and 1081 modules. Following the acquisition of the Companies by Siemens of Austria in 1985, Rupert’s involvement ceased.

 

In 2005 Rupert founded Rupert Neve Designs Incorporated, based in Wimberley, Texas, with a new range of very high performance equipment. All the new designs retain his original transformer and EQ traditions but now incorporate circuitry to take account of new discoveries about the way we hear music. These include the PORTICO I and 2 ranges, the 5088 mixing console and a new range of microphones in collaboration with David Zou, owner of sE Electronics in Shanghai, China. 

 

Neve was awarded a Technical GRAMMY in1997.