Luke Thomson – No Pity For a Tramp
I recently recorded a song for Luke Thomson which we just made into a music video. Check it out!
The video was made by the same awesome crew that made "The Imposter" for the 24 Hour Film Race.
Happy Customers!
I recently found a picture on Facebook of my buddy Scott Pollock and his girlfriend wearing some No Sound Check Apparel shirts! Its the first time I've seen anybody wearing my stuff from the store. Very cool.
Thanks Scotty!
Re: Make Looms With Ease
Brendan Horne sent this picture to me from The PA Shop in London, Ontario. Looks like they made their own looming apparatus just like the one I posted! Well done guys!
The Imposter – 24 Hour Film Race Submission
This is a video that a I worked on with a group of friends for The 24 Hour Film Race. The idea of the competition is you get 24 hours to write, film, edit, and submit a four minute short film. In the first hour of the competition they email the groups both a theme, and 2 random things that must be incorporated into the film. The global theme was "Identity Theft" and our random actions/ props were pouring a drink and noodles. We ended up using my house to film the movie, and the lead role was played by the director Dominique's little brother Dexter. He did a great job! We had a relatively large crew of close friends and each of us played valuable roles in the whole writing, filming, and editing process. My role was to record the music for the film, as well as sound effects. The group ended up writing, and recording both of the songs on the film, that day on the spot.
The Imposter
The film was screened at The Uptown with all the other Calgary submissions and we ended up winning! We won the judges choice, as well as the audience choice awards. The prizes ended up being a $1500 rental credit from William F. White, and a great box of assorted wines. Unfortunately we didn't make it past the next round, and didn't get to go to New York, but there's always next year!
In the end I am extremely proud of our team and what we accomplished. We have a very talented group of friends and I cant wait to do it all over again next year!
-Matt
Using a Cue Wedge and In Ears on the Venue Profile
While doing monitors at the Capital Ex in Edmonton this year with Sound Art I ended up using both In ears and monitors for a band. I quickly realised that there's no easy way on the Venue Profile to cue up and control both. We played with some weird routing but couldn't find a great scenario that worked. I ended up using the Radial Hotshot (A balanced Mic selector) that we brought for a band earlier in the week, to turn on the cue wedge, and assigned the in ear cue pack to the monitor output on the console.
It allowed me to cue everything on my in ear pack and quickly turn on the cue wedge with a step of my foot. Very cool.
I'm going to try and bring that thing to all of my future monitor gigs with Sound Art.
- Matt
Creative Case Handle Fix
I saw this at a show I was working and had to take a picture.Its just a bunch of zip ties and duct tape fashioned into a handle. I've had numerous guitar case handles break, and this is definitely a quick and cheap repair. Well done!
Mic Stand Camera Mount
Have you ever needed a tripod to take a picture at a gig? They aren't a very common thing to have around a show, but mic stands sure are. That's where the mic stand to camera mount adapter comes in! All for less then $5.
You only need a few tools and supplies to make this little gem.
-An old mic clip
- 1" Long 1/4 " threaded bolt (With a rounded head)
- 3/4" washer
- 1/4" self locking nut.
The hardest part of making this little contraption is cutting the mic clip. I used a hacksaw and cut off the threaded portion of the clip leaving a hole to put the bolt through. I also cut down the bolt a bit to make it a little more friendly for mounting.
The pictures pretty much explain everything so I wont type out a long list of instructions.
I notices that both my Zoom H4 and my SPL meter have the same threaded adapter as most cameras. This little adapter allows you to attach any of those to almost any mic stand. Get creative!
Rock and Roll Suburban!
I was browsing the photo's on my phone just now and I came across these photo's of the "Stages of the Cross" setup I did this Easter for Sound Art Calgary.
The PA was totally mobile. It consisted of a pickup truck and an old suburban with 4 speakers on each vehicle. The pickup truck had 4 speakers on stands, a 12 channel mixer, CD players, and a bunch of wireless set up in the back.
The suburban looked pretty bad ass with 4 speakers strapped to the roof accompanied by 2 antenna's. It looked like something out of Mad Max. (In my mind I anyways) The rock and roll Suburban received a wireless feed from the pickup truck, and traveled behind the crowd. At times the it was over 300' behind the lead pickup truck but the signal didn't drop once even despite both vehicles getting blocked by buildings while going around corners. It was setup with 2 channels of Shure UHF-R which got 
sent from wireless packs on the pickup truck and got received in the Suburban with 2 paddles pointed roughly at the pickup truck. We had 2 channels to have a backup in case there was noise or dropouts but it didn't have to be used which was nice.
Even though it was an early morning and I had to work on Easter Friday, I still had a pretty good time. My favorite part was when I got to drive the truck for a bit while the driver ran off to take a leak. Good times.
-Matt
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