To start off this year’s tour, team audio took our coffee obsession a step further. @crewbrewcoffee knocked it out of the park with this small batch roast from Huila, Columbia. It is a fermented natural pink bourbon with notes of cherry, lemon-lime, and hibiscus. It is incredibly fruity, and even more delicious when made via a voice-activated coffee machine. Come see a show and we will make you a cup!
Thank you to @beccarcruz for the artwork.
Starting the 2025 reflection early. This year has been stellar. I am thankful for the people, places, music, food, coffee, subnets, and concept2 rowers.
To those that I’ve learned from, thank you. To those that have learned from me, I’m honored. To those that don’t know me yet, I have a blog full of my opinions.
Thank you to all who I have learned from this year. My goal is to pass that knowledge along to those who share in a similar passion. Space Bear Audio started with no particular direction, but quickly became my outlet for who I am as a monitor engineer. It has become my personal brand thanks to @beccarcruz brilliance as a creative. Now, thanks to @ludwigcreativeco for bringing who Space Bear is into an amazingly illustrated form. There are more collectible stickers, more blog posts, and more ideas to help spread all that I have learned throughout my career on the way. Thank you all for supporting me.
I learned a lot in 2024, but on Jan 3, I learned there is an “auto-route” button in Waves SuperRack, but it’s only on the 1-64 page. Prep your channel insert list well and it will save you time patching. Shoutout @brownhempshoes for pretty much everything. Fantastic friend, engineer, pm, coffee drinker, glass blower, motorcycle rider, city explorer, pizza aficionado, and lately, a watch collector. See you with your Dark Side of the Moon in 2025. 📷: @adsxflm
On August 8, 2023 I wrote down “DiGiCo optocore loop can virtually remove output cards but not inputs.” This is in the event you have too many channels in use on an Optocore loop but aren’t actually using all outputs. Handy little trick to not have to physically remove any cards. However, if inputs are all that are open, you will have to physically remove the card.
(Asia 2024 so far)
On May 24, 2022, I learned that if you leave your checked bag tags on all the pelicans, guitar cases, pedalboard cases, etc, it can make it easier to identify them at the end of a fly date when you are trying to load out and collect all the gear to put in the runner van. This is especially true if it is not gear that travels together frequently and does not have any sort of custom artist bag tag.
In any case, this team makes me grateful to be a part of every show we get to do; especially the audio team. Mike, Noah, and Louis, you gentlemen are top tier.
Feature requests: -Make holding or double pressing control tile functions pull up that section on the main screen -Make gain control accessible via QuickControl when queried on an Aux/Stem -Allow input patch change via automation -Allow some way to multi-select pan a channel aux send -Allow for more than 12 event destinations per source
Things I liked: -Channel Record Send+Return for VSC is way more clutch than I realized -Surface control mode customization was so nice. Finally sound my flow by the fourth band. -Events are very cool -sounds great -so so much IO on the 550+ -There is a button for everything.
Should I switch my preferred console?
I wouldn’t be wearing a suit mixing a show in Seoul, South Korea for three sold out shows without James “McGoo” McGregor. He took a chance on me and for that I am forever grateful. He continues to pour into me his years of wisdom and experience. I usually only walk into his office to make him aware of audio problems but today I’m coming to him with the utmost gratitude. Good day to you sir, and thank you. 📷 @aysiamarotta
