Hi Will:

Usually at Audio Resource (the old Sounds of Hawaii) but they closed
the room last year. It was where I worked as a novice engineer WAY
back on a brand new 24 input Neve 8058, 2 EMT plates, a Gold Foil,
Pultecs, all the classic Neumann mics and tape machines from Ampex
1200, a Stevens 40 Track, then Lyrec 24. High ceiling, Allen Sides'
monitors he set up and room designed by Jack Edwards and Bill Putnam
himself. I was tracking "Don Ho's 30 Greatest Hawaiian Hits" with some
incredible cats playing on it. I never realized then how good I had
it! Billy Preston, Sly Stone, Larry Graham stopped by to jam, I got to
do a George Benson session, all in my first 2 years as an engineer!
When they closed and crated the Neve for storage, I thought I was
going to be permanently depressed.

Can you believe it, I used to go water skiing, to lunch, to the beach
and out to dinner every night with Bill Putnam when he visited? Nicest
man in the world.

Now I usually work at home (Radar 24 Nyquist) except for drum overdubs
and if the budget permits, I go to LA.

I remember Bill Valdez, great player! Actually, I re-wrote the KGMB's
"One of the Good Things About Hawaii", expanding it so they could
make it into a video for the station when I did their whole News
package and station promos. Also did "Let's Go Fishing", "Hawaii's
Kitchen" for KHON and a bunch of others.

Are you from Hawaii Will?

If you come over for a visit, I'll show you around all the newest
studios and Hawaii Convention Center (I was the state's consultant for
all the audio and acoustic design from design to completion).

Aloha Brah!
Audy O


ospam (WillStG) wrote in message ...
(Audy

Oceanway (L.A.) Studio A had a 72 input Focusrite, one of the first. I
tracked on it and it was awesome. I still miss the custom DiMedio in
Studio B though. The sound of an Ampex ATR-124 through those 2
consoles was BIG! I hope they haven't been chopped up and sold.

So where do you work when you record in Honolulu Audy?

BTW, I know you wrote that "One of the good things about Hawaii" KGMB jingle
that I still have stuck in my head from when I was a kid, but did you also
write that Illikai Hotel jingle "It just happens to be happening"? My old
jazz guitar teacher, the late Bill Valdez used to love that one...

Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
Audioist / Fox News
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits

Hi Will:

Usually at Audio Resource (the old Sounds of Hawaii) but they closed
the room last year. It was where I worked as a novice engineer WAY
back on a brand new 24 input Neve 8058, 2 EMT plates, a Gold Foil,
Pultecs, all the classic Neumann mics and tape machines from Ampex
1200, a Stevens 40 Track, then Lyrec 24. High ceiling, Allen Sides'
monitors he set up and room designed by Jack Edwards and Bill Putnam
himself. I was tracking "Don Ho's 30 Greatest Hawaiian Hits" with some
incredible cats playing on it. I never realized then how good I had
it! Billy Preston, Sly Stone, Larry Graham stopped by to jam, I got to
do a George Benson session, all in my first 2 years as an engineer!
When they closed and crated the Neve for storage, I thought I was
going to be permanently depressed.

Can you believe it, I used to go water skiing, to lunch, to the beach
and out to dinner every night with Bill Putnam when he visited? Nicest
man in the world.

Now I usually work at home (Radar 24 Nyquist) except for drum overdubs
and if the budget permits, I go to LA.

I remember Bill Valdez, great player! Actually, I re-wrote the KGMB's
"One of the Good Things About Hawaii", expanding it so they could
make it into a video for the station when I did their whole News
package and station promos. Also did "Let's Go Fishing", "Hawaii's
Kitchen" for KHON and a bunch of others.

Are you from Hawaii Will?

If you come over for a visit, I'll show you around all the newest
studios and Hawaii Convention Center (I was the state's consultant for
all the audio and acoustic design from design to completion).

Aloha Brah!
Audy O


ospam (WillStG) wrote in message ...
(Audy

Oceanway (L.A.) Studio A had a 72 input Focusrite, one of the first. I
tracked on it and it was awesome. I still miss the custom DiMedio in
Studio B though. The sound of an Ampex ATR-124 through those 2
consoles was BIG! I hope they haven't been chopped up and sold.

So where do you work when you record in Honolulu Audy?

BTW, I know you wrote that "One of the good things about Hawaii" KGMB jingle
that I still have stuck in my head from when I was a kid, but did you also
write that Illikai Hotel jingle "It just happens to be happening"? My old
jazz guitar teacher, the late Bill Valdez used to love that one...

Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
Audioist / Fox News
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits

Audy wrote:

If you come over for a visit, I'll show you around all the newest
studios and Hawaii Convention Center (I was the state's consultant for
all the audio and acoustic design from design to completion).

So... whatever happened to the Acoustically Perfect Kaiser Aluminum Dome?
That had to have been the worst-sounding hall I ever worked in.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Audy wrote:

If you come over for a visit, I'll show you around all the newest
studios and Hawaii Convention Center (I was the state's consultant for
all the audio and acoustic design from design to completion).

So... whatever happened to the Acoustically Perfect Kaiser Aluminum Dome?
That had to have been the worst-sounding hall I ever worked in.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Audy wrote:

You worked in there? Gawd!!! It was torn down to make room for another
Hilton hotel tower and parking. Both Don Ho and Jim Nabors
(Gaaaawleeee!) were the last ones to play there if I remember
correctly. Also, they were having a big problem with so many cats
living in there, and pigeons, which means there were probably a lot of
rats too.

When I was in high school I wound up carrying stuff and wrapping cables
for a lot of folks in the area. I think the Kaiser and the Conroy Bowl
were probably the two worst-sounding places I had ever heard until I got
to work a tent at the E.K. Hernandez Midway....

Not to worry Scott, we have some other REALLY bad places for you to
try. BTW, what show were you working on at "The Dome?"

Damned if I can even remember these days. I worked on a lot of things,
including a really weird local Dixieland group. I think I had just missed
Arthur Lyman at the time.

Look me up when you get here again. Of course we'll talk audio so you
can write off your trip too. I do this for all my audio friends!

I think it would be too depressing. Everyone I went to high school with
has moved to the Bay Area for the low cost of living. Places that I
remember as being cane fields are now hotels. I don't want to see that.
It's bad enough seeing what has happened here in Virginia in the past
couple decades.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Audy wrote:

You worked in there? Gawd!!! It was torn down to make room for another
Hilton hotel tower and parking. Both Don Ho and Jim Nabors
(Gaaaawleeee!) were the last ones to play there if I remember
correctly. Also, they were having a big problem with so many cats
living in there, and pigeons, which means there were probably a lot of
rats too.

When I was in high school I wound up carrying stuff and wrapping cables
for a lot of folks in the area. I think the Kaiser and the Conroy Bowl
were probably the two worst-sounding places I had ever heard until I got
to work a tent at the E.K. Hernandez Midway....

Not to worry Scott, we have some other REALLY bad places for you to
try. BTW, what show were you working on at "The Dome?"

Damned if I can even remember these days. I worked on a lot of things,
including a really weird local Dixieland group. I think I had just missed
Arthur Lyman at the time.

Look me up when you get here again. Of course we'll talk audio so you
can write off your trip too. I do this for all my audio friends!

I think it would be too depressing. Everyone I went to high school with
has moved to the Bay Area for the low cost of living. Places that I
remember as being cane fields are now hotels. I don't want to see that.
It's bad enough seeing what has happened here in Virginia in the past
couple decades.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

(Scott Dorsey) wrote in message ...
When I was in high school I wound up carrying stuff and wrapping cables
for a lot of folks in the area. I think the Kaiser and the Conroy Bowl
were probably the two worst-sounding places I had ever heard until I got
to work a tent at the E.K. Hernandez Midway....

The Hilton Dome was pretty bad, aluminum parabola with a concrete
floor. Not a good way to plan a music venue. Ah, you worked at the
E.K. Fernandez Midway too? Did you get to eat fresh hot Malasadas from
Leonard's Bakery? Did you hit 3 balloons with darts and win a prize? I
can still smell the sawdust.

Damned if I can even remember these days. I worked on a lot of things,
including a really weird local Dixieland group. I think I had just missed
Arthur Lyman at the time.

Was it Ken Alford and The Dixie Cats? Had to be! He recorded an album
at the studio I worked at. That guy got around. Some trivia: Did you
know Louis Armstrong, yes Satchmo himself, attended Ken Alford's
wedding and even sat in with the band? Benny Goodman also sat in with
them once. I wasn't there but there was an article about it in the
local paper. I knew Arthur Lyman, he passed away several years ago, a
nice man. Martin Denny is still alive and plays piano in his 90s. In
fact he lives near me and I see him from time to time. He is truly a
wonderful man and musician. I had the pleasure of interviewing him for
FM-Tokyo and we became friends.

I think it would be too depressing. Everyone I went to high school with
has moved to the Bay Area for the low cost of living. Places that I
remember as being cane fields are now hotels. I don't want to see that.
It's bad enough seeing what has happened here in Virginia in the past
couple decades.
--scott

We still have lots of cane and pineapple fields and quite a bit of
"country" left. If you really want to get away, Molokai is great. My
advice to those who are thinking of moving the "Have a good looking
wife and a TV because you'll be spending a lot of time looking at
them." Just kidding, I love it there and especially the people, folks
still leave their doors unlocked and lots of uninhabited land.

The last time I went, the Rent A Car people told me to just leave the
keys in the ignition! Great!

Audy O

(Scott Dorsey) wrote in message ...
When I was in high school I wound up carrying stuff and wrapping cables
for a lot of folks in the area. I think the Kaiser and the Conroy Bowl
were probably the two worst-sounding places I had ever heard until I got
to work a tent at the E.K. Hernandez Midway....

The Hilton Dome was pretty bad, aluminum parabola with a concrete
floor. Not a good way to plan a music venue. Ah, you worked at the
E.K. Fernandez Midway too? Did you get to eat fresh hot Malasadas from
Leonard's Bakery? Did you hit 3 balloons with darts and win a prize? I
can still smell the sawdust.

Damned if I can even remember these days. I worked on a lot of things,
including a really weird local Dixieland group. I think I had just missed
Arthur Lyman at the time.

Was it Ken Alford and The Dixie Cats? Had to be! He recorded an album
at the studio I worked at. That guy got around. Some trivia: Did you
know Louis Armstrong, yes Satchmo himself, attended Ken Alford's
wedding and even sat in with the band? Benny Goodman also sat in with
them once. I wasn't there but there was an article about it in the
local paper. I knew Arthur Lyman, he passed away several years ago, a
nice man. Martin Denny is still alive and plays piano in his 90s. In
fact he lives near me and I see him from time to time. He is truly a
wonderful man and musician. I had the pleasure of interviewing him for
FM-Tokyo and we became friends.

I think it would be too depressing. Everyone I went to high school with
has moved to the Bay Area for the low cost of living. Places that I
remember as being cane fields are now hotels. I don't want to see that.
It's bad enough seeing what has happened here in Virginia in the past
couple decades.
--scott

We still have lots of cane and pineapple fields and quite a bit of
"country" left. If you really want to get away, Molokai is great. My
advice to those who are thinking of moving the "Have a good looking
wife and a TV because you'll be spending a lot of time looking at
them." Just kidding, I love it there and especially the people, folks
still leave their doors unlocked and lots of uninhabited land.

The last time I went, the Rent A Car people told me to just leave the
keys in the ignition! Great!

Audy O