Here’s a calculator for determining vertical loudspeaker aim and nominal coverage.
The Tallest Tree in the Forest at BAM
This week I’m assisting Lindsay Jones with The Tallest Tree in the Forest at BAM Harvey.
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Current Projects
Last month I worked with Steven Cahill on Sleeping Beauty and Her Winter Knight at The Pasadena Playhouse. Now I’m back in New York, working with Jon Weston and Jason Strangfeld on On the Twentieth Century on Broadway.
Mixing a Musical on a DM2000
The vocals in The Circus in Winter were like Sondheim from a mixer’s perspective: lots of people and groups of people speaking and overlapping within a page. It would have been difficult to consistently mix vocals for the complex sequences on input faders, and there was a bluegrass/rock band onstage with several musicians doubling instruments to add to the workload. The … Read more
THE CIRCUS IN WINTER at Goodspeed Musicals
We just finished with Amazing Grace in Chicago, and now I’m at Goodspeed Musicals mixing the run of The Circus in Winter.
Upcoming Work on You Can’t Take It With You and Amazing Grace
This fall I’ll be working with Jon Weston and his team on the Broadway production of You Can’t Take It With You and the Chicago production of Amazing Grace.
Upcoming work with Steven Cahill
For the next few weeks I’ll be working with sound designer / composer Steven Cahill on two projects: I’ll be helping with sound effects and backgrounds for the new film Dragons of Camelot, and I’ll be the associate sound designer for Family Planning, a new play at The Colony Theatre in Burbank.
Recent Projects
I haven’t updated in a bit, but I’ve been very busy. Over the summer I continued working at Thinkwell on audio systems for theme parks and spectacle shows. This fall, I was sound designer for Alice in Bed at Carnegie Mellon. A group of us composed music for Epiphany, a new video game from Carnegie Mellon’s ETC. I worked on … Read more
Uncoupled Array Calculator Version 2
Update 5/1/26: I’ve made a version 3.
I’ve taken the trig for designing uncoupled loudspeaker arrays and made it into its own piece of software. It is a big UI improvement over the old Excel sheet, it draws a diagram of the array, and it can export arrays as XML files for Meyer’s MAPP Online Pro. It’s written in Python, but I’ve created standalone versions for both Mac and PC.
