Production Notes
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Producer & Arranger
of Rock & Pop
Music
Boggess
can help you produce and arrange your music. He can provide you with
top quality music tracks that will enable you to compete with nationally
established artists. Gary is an music composer and artist with 35 years
experience as producer of music and sound. His work is highly acclaimed by
reviewers and industry professionals nationwide. Gary's high standards
will help you achieve your musical and artistic
goals.
Gary has performance experience
as a signed rock musician in the mid-seventies. Since then, he
has developed his own personal music style which includes new age,
instrumental, jazz, orchestral and film score music. He is equally
comfortable working in the genres of pop and rock, and has recently
produced gospel & country recordings. Many songwriters and musicians
have hired him to record, arrange and produce their music. Gary uses the
most current MIDI sequencing software along with several keyboard samplers,
synthesizers and drum modules. Boggess will listen to your ideas and help
you focus your musical goals. He'll also help plan your session time, your
budget, putting together a production "game plan" for your
project.
Let experience be your
guide!
TAXI has a great page about the role of a producer
at:
Do I Need
A
Producer?
If
you are an instrumental group, band or ensemble...
read: The BMS Game Plan -
101
You get the
perfect mix, the first
time...
Click on the Project Screen
to see how we do it!
When you consider that
many local studios offer ADAT, DA-88 or DAW's that top out at 32 to 128 mono
tracks, our 512 tracks with 100% total recall mix automation (of levels,
fades, parametric EQ, digital effects etc., etc.) far exceeds the competition!
We also have TASCAM's DA-88 8-track w/SY-88 sync card. Try mixing your album
on a standard mixing console (without adding noise) and then come back two
months later for a touch up mix. Can you reset everything EXACTLY where it
was, and simply raise the vocals an extra 2db?
WE
CAN!
With our
MicroSound DAW,
we can recall the mix and effects for all 512 tracks (256 stereo), so you
don't have to pay for a complete remix! We don't have to rehearse mixes.
Go ahead... record all of your effects in stereo... copy and paste your vocal
chorus into all of the other choruses... raise the pitch of that flat note...
move a late note... raise the volume of a syllable. Do whatever you want
to do to your music... it's that simple.
Some
studios offer 24 track analog 2" tape recording, and sell you rolls of 2"
tape for about $150 per reel. At 15ips tape speed, that only gives you 1/2
hour of recording time. We can fit all that (mix data included) on about
six dollars worth of CD-R's, and without the tape noise, distortions and
other sacrifices to signal integrity common to analog recording and mixing.
The recording process is not supposed to degrade your performance. We can
record from 0Hz (DC) to 24K with a 120 db S/N ratio in 16 or 24 bit resolution.
Some hard disk systems boast so many "virtual tracks"... which are temporary
tracks that cannot all play together. But our 512 tracks ALL play and
mix together simultaneously!
Make
an appointment to SEE and HEAR our system for yourself, and then compare
us to all the others. To read why BMS believes that MicroSound is the BEST
hard disk system in the world visit:
MTU
DETAILS
CLICKon the rack to take a tour of our MicroSound Digital Audio
Workstation
Questions
about
Formats
Recently,
we've received questions about MicroSound's "propriety" format. Let's be
realistic... all formats are no more or less 'propriety' as compared to each
individual system. Some may be concerned that once they've produced a recording
project on our system that they'll not be able to remix in a year or two,
or that they cannot retrieve their project should we cease to be available.
We would like to assure our clients and potential customers that they can
RELAX! Consider the following
facts:
.
 MicroSound
was THE FIRST to put a hard disk recording system on the market in
1977! |
| There
are over 7000 MicroSound users throughout the U.S. and worldwide. Even SONY CD Labs have embraced the MicroSound for CD mastering! |
| MicroSound
backs up the entire project data, audio files and effects data track
by track to CD-R or
DVD. |
| As
an option, we can also drop track by track, in sync, to our TASCAM DA-88
or the multitrack format of YOUR choice. This way, you can take your tracks to any studio that has the same format you've chosen. We can also create .wav files formated so they can be imported into ANY other DAW system... and in sync. |
| After
5 years of using our MicroSound system, we have never had a single case of
file corruption! The few problems we have had were caused directly by our own user errors. |
| The
actual MicroSound spec is 10,000 tracks! We only advertise 512 tracks because after 256, who'd be counting? |
| MicroSound
has DirectX interface that allows us to import an unlimited number
of effects |
| MicroSound's
founder, David Cox, has a history of digital audio firsts. He helped develope the HAL4096. Remember "Daisy, Daisy?" Read about his impressive career. |
| Run
this test on the DAW you've used: How long does it take for the software
to calculate a simple 30 sec FADE OUT on a sound file? Your answer is:__10sec?__15sec?__1min__2min? Our MicroSound does all fades INSTANTLY... no matter how long or short the fade time! |
We have no idea why anyone would worry about our format
when we can provide 100% total recall automated mixes, automated fades, EQ's
and effects in stereo... WITHOUT the console noise! The Beatles were one
of the first to use an 8-track reel to reel. They didn't care about the fact
that there were only about four 8-tracks in the world! We make no apologies
that we believe the MicroSound is a better creative tool than the "most popular"
DAW systems. MicroSound is simply THE leader in digital audio workstations
(DAW) and in sound production
technologies.
While other companies offer a plethora
of whistles and bells to seduce the masses, MicroSound kept focused on QUALITY,
providing superior editing and mixing features. MicroSound's editorial and
mixing tools are transparent to the creative thought process. This is because
MicroSound was bold enough to break away from the protecols analgeous to
analog tape, as commonly emulated by most other DAW systems. The result is
a system that records, edits and mixes the way you think when your producing
music and sound. MicroSound's new 5.5 software allows us to import third
party DirectX realtime effects software. We can import ALL of Sound Forge's
DirectX effects and processing software into a MicroSound
project.
We worked
with other systems and spent a year
comparing
and evaluating DAW's, and we chose MicroSound. If you like quantized/averaged
& stair-cased fades, corrupted data, limited bandwidth, limited (32-128)
tracks, noise, EQ that phases, slow mix processing and huge costs... then
record on another system. As far as we're concerned, we're providing THE
BEST production and mixes with MicroSound. Honestly... we'd be slumming if
we used another format or system at any price, for any reason. It's your
money... but while other studios are rewinding their tape decks and waiting
on their computers for a fade to write to hard disk or looking for an empty
track, WE'RE
RECORDING!
Finally,
a few years ago, Keyboard magazine did a test of 10 digital editors and
workstations. They reported that MicroSound software and hardware mixes twice
the speed of all systems tested. They were impressed how MicroSound uses
standard PC Windows 98SE, hard disks and IDE drives, where the others use
'propriety' computer components and formats. Their independent tests proved
that MicroSound is a technology leader. We are always looking at what's new.
Yes we are AWARE of ProTools! Yet, as of December 2007, we still believe
that we've got the best audio editing and mixing tool. Our audio production
work for film, video, Foley, sound effects design and music have received
RAVE reviews
worldwide!
Formats and CD-R
Mastering
Your final master mix ends up on standard CDR's, DVD's
or stereo DAT tapes... ready for CD mastering. With our Plextor DVDR 716A
burner with MicroCD software, we can master your next CD with Red Book encoding,
ready for pressing. BMS provide comprehensive mastering services priced at
$75.00 per hour. We use a wide selection of DirectX and VST plugins to deliver
TRUE mastering. Mastering is more than applying compression schemes and overall
EQ! We believe MASTERING is an art and that's what we practice at BMS.
Masters and
Delivery
We have delivered final
master feature film audio tracks on DVD several times now without reported
issues or sync problems, and therefore, for film or video, that is our delivery
format of choice.
Analog Tape Formats & Noise
Reduction
Although we still maintain standard reel to reel 1/2 or 1/4 track analog
tape formats with dbx type-I & trype-II noise reduction & cassette
decks with HXpro, no one has asked for those formats in over 6
years!
A Word About Sync
and
SMPTE...
Unlike
other Digital Audio Workstations (DAW's), we can LOCK to video frame-to-frame
at any frame rate. Most DAW's grab code and trigger playback. From that point
on, they run crystal with crystal. That's what we call sync luck... not sync
lock! Our MicroSound's MicroSync card reads code and video black burst, varying
the playback sample rate, to maintain true lock with the master code source,
tolerating +/- 50% in speed variance!
More
about Sync and
SMPTE
Video Production
Notes
We
keep up with the changes in film and video producion. Many studios prefer
working with MPEG or AVI files imported into their DAWs. We use SONY Vegas
Video for most audio for film or video projects because it's an audio friendly
platform. For the most part, the Vegas format suits our needs for small projects
and for delivery and surround sound work.
For feature film audio post, we prefer working on the MicroSound in sync with 3/4 U-matic video tape. Working with us is simple... we need a copy of your final master video tape (locked picture) with SMPTE window burned into the screen, preferably on the bottom. The SMPTE code should be at 30 frame non-drop, and this should be on the right audio track, with your production sound (dialog etc.) on the left audio track. We can work with S-VHS or 3/4" U-matic formats. Other VTR formats are possible but would require rentals.
Prep
Note: Your master video should be striped with SMPTE time code, and the copy
you give us should be an exact copy/clone of your master. This way, we'll
be able to lay back our finished sound to your master, in sync lock, sound
with picture. If you cannot provide a 3/4" U-matic, we can create
one here from your .AVI format video
file.
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