04 May 2012

Want to win a FREE studio bundle worth up to $1200?  Audio Perception is working with Music Connection magazine this month to offer up a great deal to one lucky winner.  We are giving away a studio bundle that includes a Radial Engineering J48 direct box, one copy of Slate Digital's Trigger Platinum drum replacement software, and one Slate Digital FGX mastering plugin.  Click "here" to see more about the bundle or Click "here" to register for the free drawing, but hurry, it ends thursday May 10th.  The winner will be announced on Friday May 11th on the Music Connection website "here."

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30 March 2012

Since launching late last year, the new Alibi Music library has already proven itself to be a major player in the music licensing business. With placements such as American Horror Story, Adventures of Tintin and Lexus, you can see that they are off to a great start. After mastering the entire 1400 song library last year, AP's engineering team has been busy working on the next set of 1000 songs ready for a summer update. At our studio, we have been depending heavily on the Slate Digital FGX mastering software to give Alibi its incredibly full sound. Check out the whole Alibi Music library online "here" and more info about the Slate Digital FGX "here."

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03 March 2012

Audio Perception Post is off to a busy start this year. Just after completing three short films for the festival circuit at the end of 2011, we took on a nice project for the acclaimed conceptual artist and illustrator, Mauro Borrelli (Pirates of the Caribbean, Sleepy Hollow, and Captain America, among many others.) The Ghostmaker, which is Mauro's directing debut, is on its way to Europe where it will show on the big screen across eight countries including 52 screens in Germany. Here in the states, distribution is being handled by Grindstone and Spotlight and it will be seen on TV and DVD. Fotocomics Productions, Mauro's film company, had a great EFX, foley and sound design team work hard over last summer creating a great soundscape for us to start from. With this, APP took the Pro Tools sessions of dialogue, EFX and music, did a whole bunch of prep and organization, then mixed the entire film in 5.1 getting it ready to play on the big screen. We are looking forward to working on Mauro's next film later this year, as well as a film for The Ghostmaker's producer, Ed Polgardy.

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28 February 2012

Busy musician and music director Frank Simes, who's worked with such legends as Mick Jagger, Don Henley, and Stevie Nicks, recently finished a stint with Roger Daltry of The Who, taking "Tommy" on the road. Now he's readying a tour of Quadrophenia with Roger and Pete Townsend. A large part of Frank's work with the tour is arranging instrument and vocal parts for the band, planning and recording any backing tracks for the show, and making sure that everything is running without a hitch. For backing track playback on the tour, AP's Jason Atkinson setup Frank's MacBookPro with MOTU's Digital Performer, several sound libraries, Apogee hardware and various plugins. The portable rig was also setup for any composing Frank might need to do while on tour with Roger. In addition, each concert date was recorded into a Pro Tools rig. Having used Pro Tools in the past, Frank is mainly a long time Digital Performer user, but also needed to start using Pro Tools again to do mixes of the shows. Jason was called in again to provide one of Audio Perception's most sought after services, personal instruction. Frank is now back up to speed on the Avid DAW platform and Quadrophenia is well on its way to hitting the road.

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12 February 2012

Audio Perception's Jason Atkinson and Craig Martin were once again implementing workflow concepts from the Society of Composers and Lyricists Music Technology Symposium.  Joel Douek, another recent L.A. transplant from New York, was the organizer and moderator for the SCL music technology event.  He is an award winning composer and instrumentalist, whose music has appeared in numerous television episodes, documentaries and various national commercials and films.  Some of Joel's recent work include scoring the film "The Tall Man" featuring Jessica Biel, and Flying Monsters 3D for National Geographic.  Joel uses a Pro Tools HD system as his main composing rig, but he wanted a secondary Pro Tools HD system for lay backs and for movie playback via Avid Video Satellite technology.  So Audio Perception went to work setting up the new Pro Tools system, installing the hardware and software, configuring the computer, and getting it all tested and working.  The new setup is working out great for Joel and he's very satisfied with the results.  AP offers a sincere "thanks" to Joel for including us in the SCL panel and we are looking forward to the follow up panel happening later this year.  The first symposium sold out and was received with rave reviews, don't miss the next one.

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22 January 2012

The 2012 NAMM show was very exciting as expected. There were a lot of new products to show off from brands that Audio Perception represents, like Radial Engineering.  The brand new Radial PowerTube is a 500 series unit that features Class A design, with a low-noise 12AX7 tube and a Jensen transformer.  It is sure to be a must have addition to your 500 series rack or lunchbox. As of this year's NAMM, AP is now a proud authorized reseller for the Slate Digital, Steven Slate Drums and Slate Pro Audio line of products.  This includes the impressive Slate Digital FG-X Virtual Mastering Processor that AP uses for mastering the Alibi Music Library.  Slate Pro Audio also debuted The RAVEN X1 Production Console, showing yet again, that Steven is thinking for the new age of audio production.  With innovative features that meet the needs of the modern audio engineer, in the modern DAW-based recording studio, there's nothing else like it out there.

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30 December 2011

Audio Perception provided much needed technical support this month for Los Angeles based music producer, Soul Shock, who's been very busy as of lately.  In addition to writing and producing countless tracks for numerous R & B and hip hop artists including Seal, Usher, Mary J. Blige, R. Kelly, Pink, Pitbull and more, producer Soul Shock has also been busy working on Simon Cowell's "The X Factor" on FOX Television, producing tracks for various contestants.  The pace was incredibly grueling for the Soulpower team, and down time was out of the question.  AP provided the technical assistance to help keep things running smoothly for the project.  In addition to keeping all of their current Pro Tools rigs in top running shape, we also helped set up an additional system to handle the X Factor work load.

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02 December 2011

Jack Wall, another Society of Composers and Lyricists event attendee, also wanted to implement some of the concepts discussed at the Music Tech Symposium.  Jack is a very busy and accomplished film and video game composer with many titles under his belt.  One of his most recent projects was the score for Mass Effect 2, from the Canadian game developer Bioware.  For Jack, AP's Jason Atkinson and Craig Martin went to work first taking his studio apart, then they got busy putting it back together, installing a new machine room rack for all four CPUs and new Pro Tools hardware.  Jack's retired Apple Macintosh G5 was put back into service as an Avid Pro Tools HD system that will be used as a monitoring, layback, editing and delivery system which runs in sync with his Mac Pro Logic rig.  The machine room is now clean and organized, the new workflow and signal flow is working out well for Jack, and he's very happy with the studio upgrades.  Stay tuned for Phase 2 in early 2012 as we help Jack build a custom workstation, add new speakers, and add acoustic treatments to tune his room.

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27 November 2011

AP's tech department went to work on Matt Sorum's personal studio, giving his equipment racks a much needed face-lift.  Matt had just brought in a bunch of new gear such as mic preamps from BAE, effects from Lexicon and numerous 500 series modules.  We were called in to rearrange Matt's four equipment racks by first removing some older equipment, then rearranging the existing units while integrating the new ones.  This required adding in new audio snakes to his patch bay, reorganizing the bays to open up new access there, and re labeling it.  Last we cleaned up a maze of cables behind the racks, and replaced most of the A/C cables with short cords to help keep it tidy.  He's now back to work and loving the new equipment and its ease of access.

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10 November 2011

AP is helping busy film and television composer Kerry Muzzy with various upgrades to his studio. Kerry, a recent L.A. transplant from New York, has composed music for commercials and trailers, and various shows on Discovery and History channels, along with music placements in the FOX television show, Glee, and many more.  Kerry is a member of The Society of Composers and Lyricists and after the first time we worked for him, he recommended us to his SCL friend Joel Douek.  Joel created the Music Tech Symposium for SCL and asked David and Jason to represent AP on the panel.  The SCL event was a big success and Kerry wanted to implement some of what the technology panel discussed that evening.  We set up Kerry with a separate host system for his orchestral palette, consisting of a MacPro 8 Core, Vienna Ensemble Pro, and various music libraries.  We used the Vienna Ensemble Pro Server's proprietary network audio/midi solution to stream audio and midi data between his main Logic Pro system and the Host MacPro.  Another addition will be a Mac Mini running Pro Tools 9, setup as a stem recorder/layback machine synced to the Logic system for printing stems and enabling Kerry to deliver a Pro Tools session for final dub stage mixing.  Kerry is thrilled with the studio upgrades and the enhancements to his session workflow.

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18 October 2011

Audio Perception will be attending the 2011 AES show in New York City.  We will be there Thursday, Friday and Saturday and are planning to firm up a few new equipment and software lines to add to our growing list of products.  We offer many lines like Primacoustic, Radial, Sound Anchors, BAE  and more that are currently available in the AP store.  If you want a meeting, or to just want to talk with us, we can be reached at our main AP email - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or at our main number - 818-693-0134  Hope to see you there.

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02 October 2011

On October 6th, the Society of Composers and Lyricists will be holding a music technology event titled "Music Technology for the Working Composer."  AP's David Knauer and Jason Atkinson were asked to be on the panel along with TV and film composer Blake Neely (Pan Am and The Mentalist) and moderator/composer Joel Douek.  The event will last for two hours and will cover an incredible amount of information for experienced and new composers.  Blake has generously offered to bring his entire composing rig to the stage to show how he writes.  The setup consists of a Mac Pro running Logic, another running Pro Tools, a Vienna Ensemble sound source and a PC pumping out sample libraries.  We will be covering many subjects related to tech and composing such as backups, power management, computer configuration, software and hardware, along with answering questions from the audience. Check out the SCL's site here.

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22 September 2011

AP's engineering team have been frantically working for the last three months on an amazing project for a brand new music library.  Jonathan Parks, previously of Beyond Music, has created a unique new library set to launch October 10th.  We have taken on the challenge of mastering the entire library for a smooth consistent sound throughout the entire 1000 plus songs.  ALIBI Music Library will offer a catalog of music exclusively produced and mastered to fulfill the genre, structural, emotional, and editable needs for picture.  It will feature brand new tracks covering all genres, with constant production of new material, as well as a full classical and trailer FX catalog.  Free accurate, creative, and intuitive music searches that are provided to you within minutes of your request.  Most tracks also include multiple alternate ending options for easy editing. AP has also contributed 50 original songs written exclusively for Alibi.  Over the next year, the library is set to double in size as well.  Check it out here.

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10 September 2011

We ended the summer with something a little different for Audio Perception.  David Kemp, the art director for New York City-based artist, Samuel Bayer, contacted us to help him out with a special viewing they were setting up in Hollywood.  They built a large art piece to showcase a movie trailer they created for a feature film that B Pictures will be releasing next year.  The large "Cocoon" will house three large LCD TVs and four speaker systems that will allow visitors to pass through the length of the exhibit while viewing and hearing the trailer along the way.  David contacted AP to help design and install the LCDs and speakers.  This was an extra challenge because not only did the A/V system have to be high quality, but it also had to look good as the equipment would become part of the exhibit.  AP counted on the live sound and A/V experience of our tech, Craig Martin, to not only design the system, but to install it as well.  Check out some photo's here.

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27 August 2011

We are getting closer to completion of Josie Cotton's Kitten Robot studio.  The wood floor is in and the control room wall treatments are about 70% down.  We still have to build the diffused wall treatments for the live room and we just received a 10 ft Argosy desk that will hold the C24.  The desk also has two rack expanders that hold the BAE and Radial mic preamps, patch bays, Furman Headphone system and other outboard gear.  It also includes a producer's desk section that will hold a 21 inch monitor on an arm down inside the desk that will let the LCD go from lying flat on the surface of the console to raised up into working position.  We're also adding a 27 inch monitor on an arm to be mounted on the surface of the console.  Next week we install the desk and begin to wire the studio for audio, video, computer, and ethernet.  Check out our updated photo's here.

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15 July 2011

This month we had an unexpected emergency support call from Tech Guru Shelly Palmer from "Digital Living".  Shelly had been working on his weekly podcast and was down to the wire with a delivery deadline when he ran into a problem that rendered the whole podcast and many hours of work useless.  As he was searching the internet for a solutions for the problem, he came across our website and decided to make a call to our tech team.  Within 10 minutes we came up with a solution for him that saved the project and he was able to deliver the podcast on time.  A few days later he tweeted to over 6000 follows about Audio Perception and how we helped him out.  Speaking of Twitter, we reached 500 followers this month and we're still going everyday.

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11 July 2011

A few months ago, Paul Roessler, Billboard hit maker Josie Cotton's producer and engineer, called AP's David Knauer to discuss a project they were starting. Just as her new single was hitting the BillBoard Dance charts at #12, they had taken on a 2000 Sq ft loft space and wanted to build a studio. Over the next 2 months Audio Perception worked closely with renowned studio designer, Jerry Steckling of JSX Audio, to design, construct, and completely finish a turn-key studio solution that fit their budget. Kitten Robot Studio features a large control room, a live tracking room, a second isolation/amp room, a separate machine room and a large office area. The studio is designed and built from the ground up in an empty loft space so all area's had to be considered including electrical and HVAC. The studio will feature an AVID HD3 running on a mac pro with a C24 console atop an Argosy console. It will also have mic pre's from BAE audio and a large assortment of Radial 500 series modules. Check back soon for the whole story and lots of pictures including a series of photos showing the process from start to finish.

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29 June 2011

When it came time for one of Los Angeles's busiest video and film post houses to upgrade, The Product Factory called on Audio Perception and Primacoustic to help with their new audio room. The Product Factory has been known for years as the place to go for video editing and finishing, but they would send any audio work out of house. So to keep these project at home, they brought in audio mixer William Levins from Green House Post.  AP was also came in to get an old video playback theater room turned into an audio mix dub stage. We used a variety of Primacoustic Broadway panels for broad band frequency absorption, Max Traps for low end control, a Stratus ceiling cloud system and FlexiFuser rear wall diffusers to turn the untreated room into a finely tuned machine. Check back soon for updated picts of the finished room.

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15 June 2011

It's been over five years since TV and film composer Chris Tyng hired AP to help him with his state-of-the-art personal studio design by legendary studio guru, Chris Pelonis. If you keep an eye on our work, you will remember the uniqueness of this room. The main attraction is the 14 foot diameter control floor that turns in two directions to accommodate moving the composing equipment or the mixing console into the sweet spot. Check out our pictures of the room when it was first being built "here". Five years later, after many seasons of The O.C., Rescue Me, Knight Rider and Futurerama, Chris is gearing up for his 2nd season of USA network's Covert Affairs as well as a new USA show, Suits. We helped strip the whole studio down to the underground wiring and did a complete equipment update and re-install. Chris is known as a composer that works on the leading edge of technology, and with a 2011 update, his studio lives up to his reputation.

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19 May 2011

This month Audio Perception joins the millions of follows worldwide and started a Twitter account. You can now find us at @AudioPerception. In just a short time we have added 100's of new followers from all over the globe and we are growing all the time. We offer tech news, tech tips, advise, current events, industry info, deals on equipment and much more on a daily basis, right to your computer or smartphone. Follow us to keep up-to-date on all Audio Perception has to offer, and please spread the word.

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03 May 2011

Audio Perception Post has been busy with a steady flow of projects. This month we are working on two projects for the summer festival circuit. Misplaced, is a short film written and directed by Greg Lastrapes. (Mickey hates his job, his wife won't shut up, everyone else's life is better than his, and worst of all, he's lost his wallet. Embarking on a nightlong odyssey, laden with the sort of cruelly absurdist twists that he's some to expect from his life-gone-wrong, Mickey tries to find his wallet, but ultimately recovers something far more valuable) We are also in progress on a another short film to be titled Spaghetti Storm. Look for both of these projects to be out later this summer.

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26 April 2011

April is shaping up as a big month for our newly opened store. We just added Sound Anchors stands and DR. Bott to our growing lineup of equipment we carry directly. Sound Anchors offers some of the best speakers stands the industry has to offer. They are just amazing and our clients are eating them up. If you are not familiar with the product, do yourself a favor and check them out. Audio Perception can get you great deals and save you money on, Sound Anchors, DR. Bott, BAE, Primacoustic, Radial, KB keyboards and more.  Check out the "Store" here for monthly deals and up-to-date info on what we can offer you.

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12 April 2011

Film and TV composer Anton Sanko has been on a roll in a BIG way. After many seasons of HBO's Big Love, HBO decided to end the show this year.  That hasn't stop Anton though, as he has rolled right into a variety of film and TV project's all releasing this summer and later in the year. When Anton first moved to Los Angeles from New York City a few years ago, Audio Perception was hired to help get his LA Art's district loft studio in shape. But after a few years of being there it was time for an upgrade. AP came in and delivered sound control advise and consultation for construction Anton had done to divide the large open room into three sound proof area's. We also added some new custom wiring, software and Sound Anchor stands for his speakers.

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30 March 2011

Saxophonist, songwriter and producer Boney James called on Audio Perception this month for help in his personal studio. He was introduced to us by our friend, Grammy nominated engineer and producer Dave Rideau. ( Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Janet Jackson, Sting, George Duke, TLC, JLo, George Benson, Earth Wind and Fire) Boney needed to update some of the sound control panels in his studio. AP brought in four foot by two foot Primacoustic Broadway panels, and removed his old foam ones. Not only do the Primacoustic Broadway panels offer Boney a much better look, but he will also benefit from the superior acoustic properties that these new panels offer. We are looking forward to building a new relationship with Boney James and will continue to be there for him as his new tech team.

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15 March 2011

The Audio Perception store is now stocking the Radial Workhorse 5000 and all of the 500 series modules. The Radial 500 series is taking the industry by storm by offering an incredible array of quality, innovative products, at a price everyone can afford. The line  includes the EXTC guitar effects interface, PhazeQ that can be used to time-align two microphones for greater clarity and realism, as well as being a very powerful EQ, the famed Komit compressor, The JDX Reactor and X-Amp for the guitar players, the amazing PowerPre, and the JDV preamp, especially made for getting the best instrument level sounds into your system. We also have the Steve Via endorsed JD7 Injector and the industry acclaimed J48 MK2 direct box. Check out our Radial page at the AP "Store" here, and contact us directly for the best deals and an even better price than you can get online  818-693-0134  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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25 February 2011

The end of February marks the opening of the Audio Perception Online Store. Clients can now purchase new and used equipment, order custom cables, or even make payments, all online at our website. AP is also very proud to now represent an amazing group of equipment lines. Working directly with these manufacturers will allow AP to pass saving onto our customers, along with better support and faster service. You can now explore the online store for information on products from Primacoustics, Radial Engineering, Tonebone, Bones, Bigshot, BAE, Bittree and KB Keyboards, with more to come.

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02 February 2011

Feb. 27th is the date to join Audio Perception at the Home Recording Boot Camp's Recording Fest 2011. Located in Los Angeles, Recording Fest is a one day Conference – Trade Show – Workshop – Panel event celebrating cool recordings, and the gear, people and techniques that make them. A gathering of people with a passion for making great records, and great music. Guests can check out new gear, learn from the masters and network with other people passionate about recording. The amazing guest panel of producers and engineers will include people like Dave Pensado (Pink, Shakira, Beyonce, Janet Jackson, LL Cool J) and Tony Shepperd, (Madonna, Queen Latifah, Elton John, Kenny Loggins). There will be a raffle with thousands of dollars in prizes, and a trade show with many booths from heavy hitters like Genelec, Neve and Audio Perception. The best part about it is 100% of ticket sales and all net proceeds from the raffle and sponsorship will go to support the recording program at Phoenix House, a program that uses recording and music to help young people recovering from drug addiction. See you there.

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24 January 2011

Audio Perception Post has been very busy lately. Two films we worked on last year are on the festival circuit. Anti-Samaritan Hotline is a short film written and directed by A. Tad Chamberlain. The film was mixed at APP's downtown Los Angeles 5.1 mix studio by Tad with assistance by David Knauer. The film has already won 2 awards. The first is the 2010 Shocker Award for Overall Excellence, the Shockfest Film Festival’s top award. ASH was nominated for three Shocker awards in total including Best Director. The other award was the CineKink Select Award for Creative Vision in a Short Film at the CineKink NYC Film Festival. ASH has also been shown at numerous other festivals including CineKink in Vegas, Portland and Los Angeles, D.C. and Chicago, and at the Fetsich Film Festival in Kiel, Germany. Another short film APP just completed in December, The Monstrosity, was already in the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and it's looks like it will be accepted into 2 or 3 more in the next few months. Check back here or at the Audio Perception Post web site for more info.

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17 January 2011

This years NAMM show was as successful as ever. Audio Perception spent all four days walking the floor, making new contacts, attending meetings and setting up all kinds of great new things to come for 2011. Stars of the show this year were defiantly software. Following up AVID's big PT9 release at AES, Steinberg released Cubase 6 which is now 64bit for both Man an PC. MOTU also announced a new version of MachFive, version 3, which will be released soon along with free DP Control app for iPhone/iPad. Other notable releases were Izotope's Stutter Edit and Steven Slate Digital's new line of software and plugins. This year AP also became a member of NAMM. This will allow us to connect with manufactures directly and provide our clients with better service and more products. Watch closely for more new relationships to come together in the next couple months.

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31 December 2010

We want to take a moment to reflect back on the year and thank all of our clients, staff and associates for helping make it such a great one at Audio Perception. AP has done so much in 2010, from an incredible array of studio installs and updates, to audio mixing and mastering projects. Our original music group had placements on many TV shows and films and our post department updated to a 5.1 surround mix room as we are putting the finishing touches on our loft studio, including our ADR/Foley Booth. We also did a major overhaul of this website featuring many new additions like our online store, expanded photo section and a redesigned home page. Watch for our Forum and many new tech support options to arrive in 2011. So thank you all again for helping to make this a great year, and we're looking forward to working with everyone in the new year to come. See you at NAMM January 13th-16th.

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21 November 2010

The site of incredible technology and impeccable design, the 2010 Esquire house was a huge success. Designer Denise Kuriger and strategic partner Blue Microphones teamed up, to create a one-of-a-kind Recording Studio for Absolut® Vodka that was the center of musical activity throughout the fall.  Visiting the room you were first be drawn to the generous lineup of instruments and amps from Gibson and Fender, Moog, Orange, Korg and Meinl. Next is an impressive array of digital recording and mixing equipment, including a Pro Tools HD3 system from Avid, an SSL Duality console and a complete set of microphones from Blue mics , all augmented by Waves’ Horizon bundle plug-ins; a custom isolation booth from VocalBooth.com; and top-of-the-line contributions from Apple, Argosy, Genelec, Grace Design, Monster Cable, TC Electronic, and Whirlwind. With a $500,000 arsenal of state-of-the-art musical instruments and equipment, the musical talent visiting the Recording Studio was stellar.  Click the picture to see our esquire photo gallery or click "here" to go to the Esquire house Facebook page. View the original article "05/10/210"

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09 November 2010

Audio perception attended the 129th annual AES convention in San Francisco this month.  We spent 4 days meeting with people, making new contacts, and getting a first look at some great new products.  We were also there to witness the release of the much anticipated Avid Pro Tools 9.  Other hits of the show were SSL's AWS console/controller, the AWS 924 and 948, and also their desktop I/O and controller, the Nucleus.  In addition to seeing all of the great new products at the show, we also connected with iZotope and will now include their complete line of software products in our studio/showroom.  Our clients can come in and try the plugins before they decide to purchase.  Having the software in house also expands AP's tech support and teaching possibilities by allowing us to offer better support and education for our clients who use iZotope's plugins.

 

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20 October 2010

Audio perception has joined up with GC Pro to become one of their System Integrator affiliates. This allows GC Pro and Guitar Center to sell AP's complete array of services directly to their customers. A GC Pro account manager can now group our install, tech, design or support services along side a client's equipment purchase to deliver a full service package. Take a look at our page on the GC Pro Installation web page by clicking "here" and check back to see what projects we are working on with the GC Pro team.

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05 October 2010

Audio Perception was contacted by Kevin Becka (Mix Magazine/Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences) who is helping to put together a project for Esquire magazine in conjunction with Blue Microphones. Each year Esquire builds out a home or living space that is then used to raise money for charities. The house chosen for 2010 is a mansion in the Hollywood Hills overlooking Los Angeles. Last year, Esquire built out a penthouse in Manhattan and included a small recoding studio there. With the studio in New York being such a success, this year they decided to build out a room behind the main house as a complete recording studio, including a control room and vocal booth. Kevin has been working closely with Blue's Tyler Barth to design the room and coordinate all of the equipment. SSL is donating a Duality console, AVID is contributing an HD3 Pro Tools system with the new Avid interfaces, and Genelec is adding in speakers all working together to showcase recordings done with Blue's microphones. Audio Perception is donating it's time to integrate all the equipment and get the studio up and running. We'll be adding some updates here soon including more information and photos as the project unfolds. You can read more about the project by clicking "here". View the updated article "11/21/2010"

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29 September 2010

Over the past few months we have had quite a few more placements in TV and film from Audio Perception's original music collection.  Working with the Beyond Music library, we have 15 songs that they shop to movies and TV. Aside from the Capitol One and Travelosity commercial placed earlier this year,  our song "Steel Buns" was  also placed in an NCAA promotion and the movie trailer for "Gulliver's Travels". AP has also had many placements of an original song named "Silly Rabbit" composed by Jason Atkinson.  The song has appeared on a few VH1 and MTV shows in America and Mexico, in a trailer for "United states of Tara" and on an episode of "90210". Click "here" to hear the song.

 

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17 September 2010

The AP crew was out at the Transcenders studio this month to help them get ready for the new TV season. Not only are they starting another season of "Gossip Girl" but they are also doing the new NBC show "Outsourced" and it looks they are taking a third show too. To prepare for the heavy work load, Audio Perception's Jason Atknson helped them complete the upgrade of their Studio C Pro Tools HD system, allowing the Transcenders to work on three Pro Tools systems at once. We also cleaned up the other two systems to ensure smooth sailing in the months to come.

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22 August 2010

Audio Perception's Engineering team was put to work again this month to assist Musikvergnuegen with a custom ring tone project for Verizon. This was a challenging job for AP as we had to master the ring tones to get the volume and sound optimized for playback on a cell phone.  In the past we have worked on other projects similar to this for Musikvergnuegen, including ringtones for LG phones and a project that involved mastering the ring tones and all of the sounds for a Red Bull themed mobile browser.

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19 July 2010

AP's Jason Atkinson was at the engineering helm of Michelle Johnson's new audio book self-help CD, "Exercises for Spiritual Growth". When Michelle, who specializes in spiritual well being and alternative healing, decided to produce her first CD, she contacted Jason and they began the pre-production work and then did some test recordings for the initial script. Once Michelle had the script refined and ready to go, the recording sessions and subsequent editing sessions commenced, and were completed with a few weeks. If you click here, you can learn more about Michelle and "Exercises for Spiritual Growth" at her website. Michelle also recently produced "The Future of Alternative Health". The symposium, held in Los Angeles, featured guest speakers and panelists from a wide variety of alternative health fields and specialties. Jason handled all the live audio, including system planning and setup, and engineering.

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25 June 2010

This month we have another studio move on our hands.  As TV and film composer David Baerwald was getting ready for a new season of the CW's series Life Unexpected, he decided to move his private studio to a new location that would better serve his needs.  David is a multi-talented songwriter, producer, musician, TV/film composer, and even an artist himself.  His credits range from Sheryl Crow, ABC's October Road, Waylon Jennings, and the Bangles front woman Susanna Hoffs, to country star LeeAnn Rimes and Luciano Pavarotti.  Headed up by Audio Perception's Jason Atkinson, we sent in a team to design a plan for the new location and then oversee the equipment being moved.  Next we added a new Apple Mac Pro running in 64bit mode, hosting Vienna Ensemble Pro, and updated all of his software on two computers.  Last we got the two Macs talking to each other and sharing audio through the Apogee Symphony System.  David was back up and running in just a few days and starting to score for the new season.

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14 June 2010

We had a very successful phase one at PMG last month.  Chief engineer Chris Potter is very busy now mixing on the new Mac Pro and Digidesign's Pro Tools HD 8.  This month we are entering phase two, designing the new room.  It was decided that to make more space for clients, PMG is moving the whole studio to a new larger room.  This will give us a chance to really design a great space instead of just revamping the old one.  Check back soon as we will be adding photo's and more info about the design and install of the room as it progresses.  View the original article "02 May 2010"

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17 May 2010

In early 2009, Audio Perception was asked by Jonathan Parks, the VP/Music Supervisor for the Beyond Music Library, to write three tropical island type songs.  He asked that they have a steel drum type sound and a "vacation on the beach" like feel. David Knauer got together with award winning producer Carl McGregor at his private studio, and the results were three tracks named "Steel Buns," "Pastafarian" and "Bumboclot" (Click on a song name to here it). David recorded and mixed the tracks with Carl playing all the instruments. Steel Buns was used in a national Capital One commercial this month and was also placed in a Travelocity commercial back in the summer of 2009. You can view either commercial by clicking on a video. Audio Perception has a variety of other songs in the Beyond library that can be heard by clicking on our "Media" page in the main menu.

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02 May 2010

This month we begin what will be an on going project this summer with Post Modern Group.  Post Modern has offices in Burbank, Irvine, Las Vegas and London.  We will be working with Post Modern Creative, a division based out of the Irvine CA office that does all of the audio and video production for Post Modern.  We met with chief engineer and mixer Chris Potter to discuss the needs for their audio mixing studio.  To accomplish their goals we planned a complete redesign and rebuild of the room.  Since this would take a bit of time to design and complete, and they had some immediate goals, we decided to do the project in two phases.  The studio was running two Pro Tools rigs on G4s, one Mix system with version 6 and one 002 running version 7.  So this week we are bringing in two turnkey Mac Pros with all software and hardware pre-installed by Audio Perception.  One is an 8-core with an HD3 and the other is a 4-core with a Digidesign  003, both running version 8.  We are setting up the computers and testing them ahead of time to keep install time to a minimum as Post Modern's schedule is very busy.  Stay tuned for phase two including stripping the room of all equipment, wiring, furniture, and wall treatments and then starting over. View the updated article "14 June 2010"

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12 April 2010

A week after finishing Richard Marvin's machine room, we got a call from TV and film composer Elia Cmiral, an associate of Richard's.  Elia, whose credits include Ronin, Stigmata, Wrong Turn and more, wanted to add a new Pro Tools HD system to his private studio.  Elia currently works in Digital Performer, but wanted the option of having and engineer mix cues at his studio.  He hired Audio Perception to plan, install and integrate a Pro Tools HD2 system.  In the process, Jason went in also stripped out a bunch of old unused cabling and completely re-wired his setup to run more efficiently.  While Elia still has the option of having projects mixed at commercial facilities around Los Angeles, he can now have his cues professionally mixed at his own studio.

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07 April 2010

Busy film and television composer Richard Marvin (Without A trace, Three Rivers, In Treatment, The O.C., Six Feet Under) finally had a bit of down time this week, so he called in Audio Perception.  AP's Jason Atkinson has worked with Rick for many years now helping to keep his studio running and keeping it up-to-date with new technology.  Over the years David has also worked closely with Rick's music editor, Scott Schirle, helping out with music editing duties and sitting in on the dubbing  stage for shows like "The O.C.".  Rick used to have all his equipment in two very large "quiet" racks in his studio.  After building out a separate machine room last year, these large racks were no longer needed.  The plan this week was for Jason to come in and clean up the machine room by removing the old racks, and implementing and installing two new 42 space steel server racks.  All the gear had to be removed, cleanly re-racked, and then re-wired into the new ones.  The machine room is now more organized, much easier to cool, and much easier to tech.

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29 March 2010

Music veteran Jane McNealy is building a new website.  Jane has had a long career ranging from working as a staff writer (composer/lyricist) for Mercury records, Liberty records and All For One Publishing, as well as scoring many films and TV projects.  Under the wing of famed orchestrator and pop icon, Harold Battiste, she has over 200 songs published and recorded, not counting special material & music from musicals.  Speaking of musicals, when Jane decided to create a new website for a project see is working on, she turned to Audio Perception for help.  AP has been helping Jane with many projects over the past 6 years.  We maintain her recording studio, give her private lessons in Pro Tools, MIDI programming and recording/mixing, and also help with audio engineering of her sessions when they get intense.  Jane hired AP to work with her on her new project of building a website that lets someone follow the process of making a musical from conception to completion.  She is using a play that she has co-written with Alice Kuhns called "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" (based on the book by Frank R. Stockton) to demonstrate the process.  We met with Jane this week to help her design the site and create a road map that our resident web guru Craig Martin will be using to create the site.  Stay tuned for updates and a sneak preview as it comes together.

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15 March 2010

In March, Audio Perception got a call from a client in Irvine CA who needed help with a unique project.  We install studio's all the time but we don't get asked to move one often.  Our client had a studio in a home he was selling so he obtained a Chris Pelonis designed studio in a commercial building that recently became available and wanted our help moving in.  First we went in to dismantle his home studio and wiring.  The next day, we loaded it into a moving truck and cleared out the old studio.  This was a delicate job as there were lots of tube gear along with speakers and furniture.  We finished the day by getting everything moved into the new studio.  We then spent the next week installing all new wiring, a new patch bay system, adding a producers desk and more.  You can view pictures of the complete install by clicking "here" or check out the before and after photos "here".

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03 March 2010

Los Angeles based composer Mark Cross called in Audio Perception this month to help him update his studio.  Mark has been busy lately working on projects like Last Comic Standing, and contributing music to American Idol and HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm.  Mark finally had a free day so he called us to come in.  Jason Atkinson is AP's DAW expert, so he went through both Mark's main Logic composing rig and his Pro Tools computer updating all software and plug-ins.  We also brought his system software up-to-date.  By the end of the day he was back at it.  You can learn more about Mark Cross by clicking "here".

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25 February 2010

Audio Perception Post got a call this week from video editor Eli Green to ask for help with a Guns & Roses project he is working on.  Eli was hired by Palmeria Pictures to edit a promotional video for DeLeon Tequila featuring a live performance by Guns and Roses.  The problem was, the only sound recording they had came from the on-camera microphones and was far from optimum.  After receiving a last minute distress call from Eli, we grabbed an OMF file he had placed on our client FTP and then got to work.  Using various filters, EQs, and other Pro Tools plug-ins, we were able to mix together and manipulate several tracks.  We then placed the finished output back on our FTP for Eli to grab.  Before he had finished the video's edit, he had a audio track that could live up to the picture quality.  Click "here" to see an excerpt from the video.

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15 February 2010

David Knauer was asked by Emmy award winning composer Dominc Messinger to mix the title music track for an new show coming out on the "O" network.  The track was composed by Dominic using MOTU's Digital Performer.  His studio is setup so live sequences can play out of logic or performer right into the Pro Tools system.  David then mixed the track in Pro Tools with realtime playback from Digital Performer.  The mix goes digitally to a PC running Sound Forge that Dominic uses to library all him mixes.

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15 January 2010

Human Worldwide has asked Audio Perception to take over all tech services for their Santa Monica office and it's 5 studio rooms.  We now maintain all of their computers and equipment.  Our duties include running all of the on-site and off-site backups and clones, installing all new hardware and software, and much more.  We are also on call 24/7 for emergency tech issues so that all of their rooms can keep the music flowing.

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04 January 2010

We started out the year with a road trip.  The Art Institute of Phoenix Arizona, called on Audio Perception to help with technical problems they were having in their multi-media recording studio.  The studio was also in need of an equipment and wiring face lift.  For their Audio Post for Multi-Media program, neither the headphone distribution, nor video playback systems were functioning properly.  AP went in and completely rewired audio, headphone, and video.  We also added some updated equipment including two VESA-mount arms, allowing the two main Pro Tools LCD monitors to be ergonomically positioned for optimal viewing, and a video splitter sending picture to multiple rooms.  All this work made the studio much more flexible and organized.