Studio owner Keith Asack, who graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in Production and Engineering from Boston's Berklee College of Music in 2010, must have been paying particular attention on the day that his instructor discussed the value of diversification. Having initially opened Keep the Edge Studios in 2012 as a music production facility, Asack soon expanded his menu of services to also include in-studio and on-location video production, live multitrack recording, and video game audio and voiceover work.
By Craig Anderton With a few exceptions, most recent DAW changes have been incremental: We haven't seen huge breakthroughs like when Opcode's Vision merged hard disk audio with MIDI to create StudioVision, Steinberg introduced Virtual Studio Technology, Sonic Foundry invented a new file format for dance music styles, Ableton saw recording as a two-dimensional matrix instead of linear tape, or PreSonus integrated sophisticated album assembly functionality. But in an increasingly video-centric world where YouTube "stars" garner millions and millions of views, one area of DAWs remains relatively unexplored: video.
"I've got two high-end engineers [Richard Sharratt and Howard Page] that have very good ears. They have totally different styles as far as how they are driving their consoles. So we've come up with a really good, happy medium. As far as what I give the guys on a day-to-day basis, I let them individually carve out the piece that they need." —Jamie Pollock, system tech, Sting/Peter Gabriel 'Rock Paper Scissors' tour
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