marc senasac » Audio

PT Powerup

marc — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:38:33 +0000

It felt like Christmas all over again today in Foster City. Three new Pro Tools HD3 systems and a big box of Accel cards to beef up existing rigs.

For my more normal, non-geek-talk friends, that means more audio processing power.

I love the fact that we need to up the processing power again. It means that we’re working with more high resolution sound and more suround sound now. Great!

Can’t wait work in all the 3D picture stuff that Sony just announced at CES last week too..!

Andrew Buresh doing all the heavy thumb lifting in the photo there for all you people taggers.

New Exodus Album

marc — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:31:48 +0000

Upon seeing the mail delivery today, I spotted a small padded envelope. CD size for sure, but what CD could it be? I tore it open with enthusiasm to see the title “Exodus” staring me in the face!

It felt funny seeing the name again on a CD, but this Exodus is not the ’80′s thrash metal band that I had produced and engineered many albums for. This Exodus, is the student band from Archbishop Mitty High School in San jose, California. Super talented high school musicians and vocalists who put together a fantastic collection of popular music.

The band puts out an album annually and I’ve helped out with mixing for several years now. This year we shared the mixing task between BZ Lewis, Johnny Lima, Steve Savage and myself.

I’m not sure what it is with me and bands called Exodus but no matter what, always the promise of great music no matter what the genre!

The First of 2010

marc — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:08:34 +0000

I just finished up mixing the last of 14 tracks for Lisa Kindred’s new album. It’s been over a year in production and I’m very excited for Lisa. Great players – great performances – fantastic release forthcoming. Still some refinement and then mastering. Can’t wait to let you know when it’s available. Here comes a great 2010!

The Mohan Veena

marc — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:55:40 +0000

My brother Andy had his buddy, Abbas Premjee, visiting in September. They put together this short video demo of the Mohan Veena. Cool instrument that I had never heard of. Good info and, if by any chance you like the Carpenters, big bonus in the midle of the piece for you.

Matt Levine saw this and was so impressed I think he’ll have his own Mohan Veena soon too!

Record Everything

marc — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:32:41 +0000

The fish tank filter has been cleaned and the longest living fish I know will continue to prosper. Good time to record the sound of those micro bubbles and the mini pump hum…