Mastering engineer

This time we are proud to present a very interesting material related with the fascinating audio world, and our main passion, the music.
Recently we had an International event that took place in San Jose, California, USA. in which

many Head-fi members got together to share gear, impressions, music, new ideas, and the most important thing our love for this hobby…Besides an interesting discussion with the most important amps manufacturers, one of the most relevant technicians related with the foundations of the music industry was also present, and offered an informal conference, in which some important topics related with mastering, mixing, recording, etc…were widely discussed, I think that a figure of this magnitude does not require any further presentation, Steve Hoffman is one of the more important icons of the mastering, mixing and engineering, and the person behind some of the most important, and best recordings of our time…here are the conference by chapters, for your enjoyment…

TALK CONTENTS (click on the titles to play the video)

Introduction.
Steve Hoffman and Ray Charles. (music theme: Ray Charles. Over the Rainbow)
A story about Ray Charles.
Steve Hoffman and The Beatles. (music theme not available)
Some technical things.
Steve Hoffman and Nat King Cole. (music theme: Nat King Cole. From Love is a Thing, Stardust)
A question with leaf blower included. (music theme: Nat King Cole. Stardust)
More about Love is a Thing.
Steve Hoffman and Jethro Tull.
Jethro Tull´s Aqualung tape trouble.(music theme: Aqualung)
The first jazz stereo drums recording. (music theme: Bill Evans recorded at Bell Sound Studios, New York)
The Beatles’ Pepper Album. (music theme not available)
Bing Crosby and magnetophon recorders. (music theme: Bing Crosby’s magnetic tape recording)
Moon Dance Album and others technical comments.(music theme: Moondance Album by Van Marrison)
Questions time.

CREDITS

Thanks to Al Bedecarré (Voltron) and Bruce Yamaguchi (utep10) for filming and sending this videoto one of our Kanamaster team members Alberto F. Gómez (Sovkiller).

EQFUENTES
Original music themes for DVD, video editing - authoring, 3D and graphic design.

Thanks to Todd Green for arranging Steve’s talk, to Ric Blessing (blessingx) for his original HeadFest 2007 graphics and to Leonard Norwitz for allowing us to use his photos © 2007

Thanks to Jude Mansilla for providing the infrastructure that supports the Head-Fi community, which makes possible events of this magnitude.

RELATED LINKS

www.head-fi.org
www.stevehoffman.tv

Jewel box artwork. Free download.

Headfest 2007