KCR services

KaT's Corner Recording services offered, etc.

RECORDING/EDITING:

KaT's Corner Recording primarily offers audio (and MIDI) recording services including event and project recording, editing, mixing, and mastering; production and post audio support for video; and audio restoration.

KCR offers multitrack recording in any combination of mono and stereo tracks up to a total of 26 simultaneous mic preamp inputs, plus an additional 10 balanced line-level inputs. Project overdubs can yield total track counts significantly higher. Recording can be done either in a studio environment or in your location - anything from the size of a theatre down to the size of your living room.

KCR's audio editing services include track editing within a multitrack project down to the sample level; as well as cutting and splicing mixed audio tracks for performance, such as dance, theatre, etc. KCR applies years of musical and audio experience plus modern processes to achieve cut-and-splice edits which are musically in-tempo and in-count, and transparent to the listener. With KCR doing the editing, you won't hear any dropped, added, or shifted beats or accents, nor any annoying pops or clicks at the points where edits are done. That kind of exacting detail may take a few more minutes on the edit desk, but the results speak for themselves.

KCR's audio restoration services include capturing audio into digital from various media formats, application of modern audio restoration software tools, and delivery via CD and/or other digital media. In-house hardware supports importing from original media on records, stereo cassettes, Tascam-compatible 4-track cassettes, and 1/4 inch reels. If you have original media of a different format than these, and you also have working hardware to read or playback that media, we may still be able to help. Simply bring in your reader/player as well as your media, and KCR will make every effort to establish a working signal path from your hardware into our system, in order to import the audio to be restored.

LIVE:

Recently, live audio support for small events has been added to KCR's list of services. Mixing is currently done via a small format 16 channel digital console, with up to 4 available monitor channels. The front speaker system includes a pair of 1000W full-range powered cabinets and an 18-inch 500W powered sub, which (depending on type of program content) can be suitable for coverage in front of the stage area within about 120º spread up to a radius of about 75ft.

MICS:

KCR's mic closet includes a variety of condensers (large and small diaphragm), dynamics, and DIs. Some of the mic models include: SM-57, Co-11, PCC-160, PGA-98h, qKick, qSnare, qTom, CO2, GXL 3000 and 1200, MXL V67g and 603s, XM1800, ECM8000, and more.

PRODUCTION:

KCR also offers music-related services including arrangement, notation, production, amd composition - including composition and sound design for picture. KCR's audio software platform works with many common timecode framerates, which facilitates landing cues and SFX events accurately on hitpoints. Music production services can employ a number of "soft" synths and samplers, as well as a few modern and vintage keyboards and modules.

KCR's platform is Mac OSX, running MOTU's Digital Performer, with hardware from MOTU and others. Restoration and mastering processes are refined through the use of other plug-in and stand-alone software applications such as Melodyne, and iZotope's RX and Ozone.

Recording is typically done at 48kHz/24-bit integer into interleaved WAV format files. A reduced number of simultaneous inputs can be recorded up to 96kHz, and up to 4 simultaneous inputs can be recorded up to 192kHz. If recorded audio resolution or file format is required at other than 24-bit WAV, I can alternatively record into 16-bit integer or 32-bit float; saving as WAV or AIFF, with multichannel tracks as either interleaved or non-interleaved.

Whichever sample rate and format is used for tracking, editing, and mixing, final exports can be done into a number of sample rates, bitrates, and file formats. The most common of these include WAV, AIFF, and MP3. Project archives can be provided in AAF or OMF formats, or as Digital Performer project directories. Audio file stems can be provided in any specified combination of project tracks, wet or dry.