Presonus has a nifty box called the HP4 for $90 that is a 4 channel ACTIVE headphone amp http://www.presonus.com/hp4.html. Very cool. (more…)

I have always wanted to build a recording booth, but I have never actully done it before. When Kim Snider (www.KimSnider.com) needed a quite place to record their radio spots, I decided it was about time.
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This was a big production that I helped put on. Over 30 Audio engineers participated in this large scale live televised production, including a main mix, TV mix, Radio network audio mix, Translation to Spanish, Live Satellite uplink, ISDN links to local radio networks– not to mention the house and monitor mixes. 70+ independent channels of input audio split to 3 separate PM1D’s and then sub distrubuted to 8 other consoles. My main responsibility was for placing and rigging the 12 channels of audience mics and 9 choir mics off a catwalk system over 90 feet in the air. I also engineered the audio distribution network for the separate feeds and operated an IFB roaming wireless mic system. It took over a day to get the cables run and mics connected. Troubleshooting such a system was also a nightmare, taking one whole day for nothing but cleanup work and testing. Rehearsal and the actual event were a third day and then 6 hours of tear down and cleanup. Seems a bit much for a 2 hour event. But I have never worked on the superbowl either. Here is a little camera phone shot of rehearsal.