Latest News from Southern View Sound & Music

We're always trying to raise the bar of quality recording equipment for our foothills community musicians. For the gearheads out there, a second UREI/JBL 7110 limiter/compressor has been added. I owned 2 of these at Rocky Mountain Recorders and found them to be some of the most flexible and powerful compressors for everything from voice recording to super "mashed" room recordings for drums and guitar. 
 
In a major acquisitions of outboard gear and front end microphone preamps/equalizers, we recently took delivery of 2 highly prized AMEK Rupert Neve designed system 9098 Mic preamplifier/EQ modules. Southern View Sound now features several Neve designed systems including the Focusrite ISA two, the Rupert Neve designs Portico 4 channel preamp module and Warm audio's recreation of the legendary Neve 2 channel 1073 EQ.  Rocky Mountain Recorders owned 2 amazing AMEK Mozart 40 input mixing consoles in the 1990s and 2000s. These mixers were selected by "ear" in competition with Trident, DDA, and Solid State Logic modules. The input channels were all RN-15 modules designed for AMEK's Mozart mixers by the legendary Rupert Neve. We fell in love with their magnificent sound and ordered 2 of the awesome Mozart consoles. Mr. Neve continued on to design the mighty 9098 system as AMEK's world class recording console entry. Only a limited number of the 9098 desks were produced, but AMEK had the foresight to build the input modules into single rack mount units and allow the recording industry to have a taste of that "9098 sound".  These equalizers are the best sounding I have ever used. Southern View Sound and Music is proud and excited to welcome this sound to our studio for your recording projects.
 

The 3rd and last "Studio V" podcast episode exploring the grand piano is now available. It features piano technician Reid Schaefer, who is an expert on piano maintenance and tuning. He has cared for my pianos for over 3 decades, as together, we have tried to fine "tune" the sound and performance of the various pianos I have had during my career as a recording engineer. 
This episode gets inside the instrument and examines the materials and inner workings of the grand piano and the variety of sounds it can generate. It is a bit technical and extremely informative. 

Listen to Reid Schaefer Here

Southern View Sound and Music is presenting the 2nd in our series about the Grand Piano and fascinating people who play it. Colorado’s own Steve Barta will chat with Paul Vastola about Steve’s history with the piano, his catalog of enchanting Christmas albums, his Brazilian music stylings and his career revolving around his Steinway “B”.  Tune in to hear discussion and examples of Steve’s recording history with Paul and his collaboration with world renown Jazz flautists Herbie Mann and Hubert Laws. The series will air on www.coniferradio.com Monday evenings during August, 2022 at 7:00 and will be available here on our website.


Listen to Steve Barta Here

Paul's pocdast series "Studio V" will begin airing on coniferradio.com tonight June 20, and live each Monday at 7:00pm.  Now featuring stellar, internationally known Colorado pianist Lisa Downing and the story of her love for the piano. The series will highlight the Grand piano and artists who's careers center around the instrument. you can access the program through the link on our site. 

Listen to Lisa Downing Here


 

The Torii Gates are sacred wooden structures that were washed out to sea after the 2011 Fukushima earthquake and tsunami. Eventually, these structures floated across the Pacific ocean and were found 2 years later on a beach in Oregon. They were returned to their original location in Japan and rebuilt to great significance. A piano student of Lisa's painted a picture of the disaster and Lisa composed a piano piece to represent the event. A video about this story was created and won the Emmy.