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SF MusicTech Summit 7 – December 6, 2010

Media One A/V will be providing the Audio, Visual and Recording Services for the prestigious SF MusicTech Summit 7 on December 6, 2010 at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco. "The SF MusicTech Summit brings together visionaries in the music/technology space, along with the best and

So Many Roads… Media One on the Road

So Many Roads to Soothe My Soul…  Said Jerry Garcia in song. And like Jerry, I found myself traveling so many roads, representing our Media One Archive side in the month of October. I traveled to the East Coast for a large conference and then back

Unleashed Culture & The Need for a Compressor/Limiter

- by Dark Star Dan Sean & I are working an Audio-Visual gig today called "Unleashed Culture" at the new InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco. A-V is something we are offering more and more at Media One as we have invested heavily in all kinds of cool

Jerry Garcia Day 2010 – San Francisco

Media One Archive is excited to be taking-in the 8th Annual "Jerry Day 2010" at McClaren Park in San Francisco on 8-01-10. Betty & Dan were part of the early-days people helping our good buddy, Tom Murphy, organize this event. Hope to see some of you out there as

Working for the President

-by Errin Yesterday was an exciting day.  The Glide Ensemble performed at a Barbara Boxer fundraiser at the Fairmont Hotel, and President Obama was the guest speaker.  I sang with the Ensemble and Dan and Betty engineered Glide's portion of the event, so three of our

The Importance of Archiving

-by Errin Did you know that the media for the feature film Avatar required 52 petabytes of storage space? Me neither. Did you know that there was such a thing as a petabyte until just a second ago? OK, I'll confess.  I'd never heard about petabytes myself until I

Good Sound Requires Cooperation

-by Dark Star Dan One of the most important things I have learned about live sound in my career is that good sound requires cooperation.  My greatest dissatisfaction as a live sound engineer is the issue of band members playing their instruments too loudly.  Amps that

When We Make it to the Promised Land

-by Dark Star Dan I work every Sunday morning at a very famous multi-denominational church in San Francisco called Glide Memorial Church lead by Rev. Cecil Williams (www.glide.org) I am the house sound engineer and Betty Cantor-Jackson of Grateful Dead fame is our recording engineer. A

How to Make an Authorized “Bootleg”

-by Dark Star Dan A nice way to make a quick and full-bodied live recording is by creating what is called a Matrix. This technique was developed by innovative tapers years ago and is quite an effective way of making a really good recording of one