Digital Media Services
Digital Media Services is my postproduction facility, which specializes in surround sound, mixing and mastering. My room is one of the finest listening facilities in New England, particularly for multichannel surround production. I use BeoLab 5 and BeoLab 3 loudspeakers, complete acoustical instrumentation from Techron, and a production platform based on Digidesign's Pro Tools and a Yamaha 02R console. I can arrange for location recording, and am expert at music and voice editing, post-production, premastering, tracking, and mixdown. I am located 30 miles northwest of Boston, Massachusetts.
Surround Sound
As Dave puts it:
I have been hooked on surround sound since 1970. I am set up with some really very good surround monitoring capability, and can also do location recording, mixing, editing and premastering in 5.1 surround or other formats. I like to think of surround sound as my specialty, particularly as I've been composing in surround for 25 years! I've got a multichannel SACD release out for Dissonance Resolved Records, 5 DTS CDs out for a new age client, and I share credit with Curt Wittig on George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children, a Circle Sound release. Over the past several years I have also produced a number of classical stereo CDs, including an orchestral recording for the Orchestra at Indian Hill and CDs for pianists Monica Jakuc and Bonnie Anderson.
I use a six-channel full-range system here, with Left, Center, Right, Left Surround, Right Surround and Overhead channels. The five horizontal channels are using full-range BeoLab 5 loudspeakers (the overhead is still a SAW prototype) featuring Sausalito Audio Works Acoustic Lens Technology, with 180° horizontal dispersion to 17 kHz. The front array and overhead are equidistant from the sweet spot on the client couch, and the surrounds are about 2 feet further away (corrected with time alignment). The overhead channel is a wild card, but I think it adds enough that I'm convinced that something like it will become pretty standard in the future. Given the LF response of the monitors, subwoofers are not needed and I simply send the LFE channel as a mono distribution to left and right speakers.