Introduction

Welcome

The information before you have taken decades to gather and present here, to you, the audience. Without an audience there is no entertainment. To paraphrase P.T. Barnum …to entertain is to "act upon the design of the author of our nature".

My job is to entertain entertainers. Doing my job properly allows me to capture an artist entertained emotions and present them to …you, the audience.

The size of an intended audience determines the number of resources required to make the presentation fulfilling. A solo performance for a small gathering requires far less resources than does presenting a show to tens of thousands of people. A show that requires addressing many people at one time in one place or the distribution of it to a massive number of individuals in private spaces over a broadcast or reproduction medium requires an impressive amount of time, effort and money …resources. The resources and the requirements placed upon them for such efforts are considerable. I’m one of those resources.

I’m glad you’re reading this introduction. The information presented to you in this work can be sectioned off into a reader’s personal area of interest. That’s the easy way, not necessarily the best. In the production of anything it is the little details that will make or break the project. When it comes to audio quality, the human condition of the moment, an intrinsic event determines if the audience member gathers all the information the artist is attempting to convey. Example; A good film with bad audio is hard to watch whereas a poor film with great audio is tolerable. A great song can be lost to poor audio production.

Back in “the day” Long Play (LP) records typically had 5 titles per side. Out of those 10 songs you’d be lucky to have one hit record yet alone two. Played all together you had “The Show”. A collection of work usually with an underlining message. One that is not exposed by only playing 10% of the collective work.

I give you the show called “It’s All in the Talkback”. It has an into, a prelude, a middle section broken into two areas, Capture and Mix and an ending. At the end there’s a short story, only the names have been changed …the rest …read the story.

Thanks to YouTube. In the following pages you will find various links to tunes, interviews or papers to highlight the story being told. They mostly point to YouTube content. There is nothing here to ask, want, befuddle, or try to get anything from you other than your attention. Hopefully you will leave with, at the very least, a smile at having been entertained.

Welcome to the show,

Scott