Technology/Equipment Grant
Technology/Equipment Grant
Audio Equipment
Janeen Carey: vocalist, retired Hibbing Community College librarian and information media specialist; Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor of Music at University of Minnesota-Duluth, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director at KUMD.
Tammy Mattonen: visual artist, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Quentin Stille: student liaison, College Music Director - KUMD; Moira Villiard: visual artist, student of arts and communication at University of Wisconsin-Superior; Margaret Holmes: visual artists, poet, former Children's Theatre employee.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education
I have begun focusing my music production work more intently and have been studying techniques, hardware, and software to help in this endeavor. The equipment I currently own and use for recording, mixing, and mastering has been adequate thus far, however I am now in need of hardware that will help further increase my capabilities and support my educational process. Through the acquiring of this grant opportunity I plan to upgrade several components to my studio in order to achieve a higher quality product and fine tune work flow. Measurable outcomes would include sonic quality comparisons in the music as well as time spent working on any given project. The microphone will absolutely produce a higher quality sound for me to work with recording. This will become noticeable through the process of recording, mixing and mastering as an obvious measurable outcome. The keyboard controller has been identified as the most congruent and compatible on the market for the current music production software I use. The use of this keyboard will allow for a more hands-on approach to producing and offer more ease of access to the finer details that are manipulable through the program. Measurable outcomes include a faster work process and a more accurate sound design. The speakers will help produce a more pure sound signal for me to work with. This will help me make more accurate decision in sound design which would be apparent in future projects.
My delayed interaction with the equipment, due to prior obligations, leaves less details for my outcomes than what will be coming in the very near future. That being said, having set up the equipment just the other day, there are certainly measurable outcomes already. The frequency response in these speakers give me a much clearer picture of the sound I'm working with in terms of its true nature. Sounds are much clearer, making future judgments of adjustments more accurate with less guess work. The keyboard's main feature of having pre-mapped settings for the program I use works seamlessly. I am able to control sound design and make proper adjustments at a much faster rate than before. I'm also seeing a larger potential for ease of creativity, as the finer tinkering of trying to do these things manually on the computer can quickly decay any sense of creativity. The microphone records a clear and concise sound, far cleaner than any other microphone I've owned or used. Its professional sound will be an instrumental part in creating a higher quality product in the music and projects I embark on from here on out.
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