Benjamin Greenspan

BIO  Benjamin is a current Audio Production student at CDIA.

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Audio Production

A Nashville Mix Experience

December 1, 2008 While in Nashville recently I got to sit in on a mix session with Matt McClure of Rooster Tail Productions. His in-home mix room was absolutely beautiful; he had built the whole thing himself – really cool – with a very large mix room and a small live room. Matt was mixing a few songs from demo sessions he had recently recorded. (Demos in Nashville are a huge part of the industry; most of the mid- to upper- level songwriters there rec Read On...

Audio Production

Stumbling into Every Opportunity

October 29, 2008 These last two weeks have seriously been crazy. I ended up getting an internship for J Franze, the producer/engineer I wrote about in my previous entry. I approached him after his lecture at B.A.D.A.S.S. just to introduce myself and ended up having lunch with him. After talking for a while he told me he was actually looking for an intern and offered to have me come up to see his mix room and do an interview. I started work the next day and have Read On...

Audio Production

My Take on the Boston Area Definitive Audio Student Summit

October 1, 2008 I went to B.A.D.A.S.S. this weekend, and despite its suspect naming, this event was really interesting. I attended several great events and met some really cool people. The lectures I went to covered recording Country and Jazz, compression, and how to get a job. I also saw a rather strange rant on how compression should never be used and how awful SM 57’s are. Probably the most interesting lecture was J Franze’s pr Read On...