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Dan at CRAS

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About Me


My name is Dan. I'm an Admissions Representative at The Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences. I'm here to help you get everything you need to go to school and start your career in Audio. Whether you want to record and mix the hottest albums, run concert sound for the biggest bands, record and edit audio for movies and television, or do audio for video games; the Conservatory can provide you with the education to make it all possible. At The Conservatory, we only accept the best and brightest students into our program, as a result we have a great reputation in the industry and have the top studios and employers in the audio industry wanting to hire our graduates. The admissions process is the first step in your new career, and I'm here to help you through it. Let me know if you have any questions about the application, enrolling in the program, financial aid, or anything else related to attending school at the Conservatory. I'm here to help you through the process, and get you on the path to success in the audio field! To see more information on our program check out our website. It's full of information about the school, pictures of our facilities, and a lot of other information you'll find useful. The website is www.audiorecordingschool.com Picture Comments Contact Box Generator Icons Collage MySpace Layouts Poll Generator

My Interests

I enjoy recording and mixing music. Since graduating from The Conservatory, I've had the opportunity to work in the studio with artists such as Alice Cooper, F5 (featuring former members of Megadeth), and Authority Zero, and producers such as Ryan Greene, and Max Norman. In my free time outside of the Conservatory I enjoy recording, and mixing albums for local bands in the Phoenix area.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet Rick Rubin, and pick his brain to find out how he can make some of the best records in every genre from hip-hop to metal to country.I'd also like to meet anyone interested in learning how to start a career in the recording/audio industry.

The following are products and programs that our students can become certified in. These certifications can open up a lot of doors when it comes time to find a job after you graduate!

This is Krystle, one of our students at the Conservatory. She started in August of 06 and just left campus 3/16 to head to New York on her internship. Good Luck Krystle! Keep up the good work!

Daughtry theiving The Asphalt's song.

Music:

Graduates from our program have worked on and recevied awards for working with some of the best artists in the music industry such as: Radiohead, Outkast, Red Hot Chili Peepers, John Mayer, The Killers, Justin Timberlake, System of a Down, Smashing Pumpkins, Kelly Clarkson, Paul McCartney, Evanescence, Taking Back Sunday, Destiny's Child, Pink, Korn, Marroon5, Faith hill, Tim McGraw, Coheed and Cambria, The Ataris, Santana, Rancid, Tiger Army, Jack Johnson, The Neptunes, Queens of the Stone Age, Stone Temple Pilots, Black Sabbath, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, LL Cool J, Fat Joe, Ludacris, Jay-Z, Beck, Black Label Society, Eminem, Black Eyed Peas, Green Day, Avril Lavigne, Marilyn Manson, Ziggy Marley, and many more!

Movies:

Will be updated soon.

Television:

Conservatory Graduates have worked in many facets of television. Grads have done sound for shows such as The Apprentice, Survivor, local news programs, and many national sports broadcasts. This will be updated with more examples shortly.

Books:

One of the best books about the audio industry is "Confessions of a Record Producer" by Moses Avalon. A must read for anybody interested in working in audio!

Heroes:

I admire Rick Rubin, Andy Wallace, and Tom Dowd. These guys have made some amazing records, and are in part responsible for some of the best records ever made.

My Blog

My new toy!

Hey Everybody, I got a new toy! It's an Amek TAC 24 channel analog console. I'm so stoked! Many thanks to Tim for hooking me up with this one, you're the man. It's an inline console with full parametr...
Posted by Dan at CRAS on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:14:00 PST

Your ultimate recording session

Hey Kids! I was talking to a friend recently about some of the recording sessions we would have really liked to have been a part of, so I figured I'd pose the question here. That's right, this here is...
Posted by Dan at CRAS on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:31:00 PST

The History Of Multi-Track Recording

I was browsing wikipedia and came across this article on the history of multi-track recording. I figured that if you guys want to be engineers and work with multitrack recorders, you should probably k...
Posted by Dan at CRAS on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:02:00 PST

Job Summary of Audio Recording Engineers

Hey the everybody! Here is some really cool information on what it takes to be a recording engineer along with information on exactly what a recording engineer does. Check it out, and look at som...
Posted by Dan at CRAS on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:36:00 PST

Are MP3’s and iPods ruining music?

Hello all! This is an article from the Wall Street Journal. It's addressing the affect MP3's and iPods are having on the industry. With so many people listening to a low quality medium (mp3's), peopl...
Posted by Dan at CRAS on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:58:00 PST

response to Rick Rubin interview

This is an e-mail response from a new student after reading the interview with Rick Rubin. A lot of his questions will be answered when he gets into Music Business Classes here at CRAS, but I thought ...
Posted by Dan at CRAS on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:07:00 PST

Interview with Rick Ruben

Any of you who know me know Rick Ruben is pretty much my hero in the music industry. The man's just got a great ear, and he's very grounded. Anyway, he was recently appointed as the head of Columbia R...
Posted by Dan at CRAS on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:41:00 PST

Interview with Rick Ruben

Any of you who know me know Rick Ruben is pretty much my hero in the music industry. The man's just got a great ear, and he's very grounded. Anyway, he was recently appointed as the head of Columbia R...
Posted by Dan at CRAS on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:40:00 PST

Letter from a grad

This is an e-mail from a student working on his internship right now. He was e-mailing his internship coordinator telling him what's going on. This e-mail can give you a good perspective on what your ...
Posted by Dan at CRAS on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:12:00 PST

The Blurred Line of Songwriting and Beatmaking

A very high percentage of the students interested in The Conservatory want to learn to make beats. The Conservatory is a technical school, not a music school. So while we do teach how to use the tools...
Posted by Dan at CRAS on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:59:00 PST