Pro Sound Workshop 3
TRAINcycle Summit: Pro Sound Workshop 3 Options
January 30th 3:05 PM - 3:50 PM EST
Take a seat and buckle up for an intense session on mastering. Anna will go through what makes a mix ready for mastering and what makes a master ready for distribution. Then watch her step-by-step mastering demonstration on the workflow and what tools to use and how to use them. Learn what should be in a mastering engineer’s toolkit, approaches, and goals to set for yourself.
Anna Frick is a mastering engineer and the restoration center manager at Airshow Mastering in Boulder, Colorado. Her work encompasses studio albums, live recordings, reissues, and compilations across an array of formats, old and new, and a wide variety of genres and styles, from bluegrass and folk-influenced acts to rock and New Age projects. Legends like Ralph Stanley and Doc Watson, exciting contemporaries such as Billy Strings and GRAMMY-nominated Wood & Wire, and important blues and jazz archival recordings have all benefited from her uncanny ear and deft touch. She balances her strong instincts and intuition with her technical experience and each client’s goals to finesse every project she tackles.
For Airshow’s restoration center she oversees all archival digitization projects. She mastered Third Man Records’ GRAMMY-winning box set, The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records, as well as having mastered thousands of hours’ worth of historical recordings from university archives and collections across the country.
Join up with live sound engineer Kyle Welch as he walks you through optimization, set up, and tuning of your sound system for on the road set-ups. Covering topics such as time aligning, equalizing, and specific equipment settings, you will learn the inside scoop on how he prepares his gear and sound system for shows on the road with hit country music group Lonestar.
Kyle Welch has worked as an audio engineer and educator since 2003. He has toured nationally and internationally as a Front of House Mixer and Production Manager for major label recording artists. As well as being a skilled audio mixer, Kyle also specializes in audio system design and optimization as well as wireless system coordination. He is currently the Front-of-House Mixer and Production Manager for the country band Lonestar. He also holds a position as System Designer and Integrator for the audio and video install firm TruBlue AV.