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33 Q3 2019 / CINEMONTAGE 33 Q3 2019 / CINEMONTAGE 9. Step Up to the Mic "It's an AKG 414. That's the only good mic I've ever owned, because when I record other people, usually I go to a studio. "I spent all the money that I was gifted when I graduated high school — it was $600 or something like that — I put it all towards buying one nice microphone. "It's good for guitars. Or if I record my saxophone, I'll use it for that. It's okay on certain vocals. It's kind of a dark microphone." 10. Whisky River "We did a trip to Scotland last year, so I got to go to some of my favorite distilleries. Those are the smokiest, peatiest scotches — what I generally like. I mean, I like them all. There's such a variety of flavors to whisky. "I will have some usually after work. If we're doing well, and the client wants some…maybe at the end of a session." 11. Keeping It Cool "The back room has become overflow wine storage, too. My wife and I collect wine. So, all those boxes there are just extra wine we can't fit in the house. Since I have to keep it climate- controlled back here for all my gear, we might as well just stash 'em in here. "My audio equipment has to stay at most at room temperature. Unless, if I power all this stuff down, I could turn the AC off. But this stuff can't overheat when it's being used. So I have to keep the air-conditioning on in here." 12. Save Me "That Synology RAID has literally everything I've ever done. I save everything. Each of those are 6 terabyte drives. It's a big investment. It also backs up to the cloud, too, so if this all burns down, I at least have my archive online. "I have eight drives. And I'm almost out of space. I think it's like 26 terabytes backed up in there, right now. "I still have the very first Pro Tools session that I ever did in high school — from 2004." f 7. Poster Boy "Blade Runner and The Empire Strikes Back are two of my favorite movies of all time." 8. Getting Educated "Every student at Berklee has to study music — even people there to do music production, like me. You have to do harmony, ear training; you have to study notation. Everyone's a musician at that school, which really helped. That's part of what drew me to that school. It wasn't purely technical." 5. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 7. 6.