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El Capitan at Sunset in Yosemite.
Taken on September 5, 2011

Photography by Brian Petersen at http://www.brianapetersen.com

It was a joy to make videos like this with Ryan McDuff, John Rinehart, and the body of Grace EV Free. Thank you to everyone who gave food and served at our Grace Good Bank.

Narration by John Rinehart
Footage shot by Ryan McDuff
Edited and produced by Brian Petersen

Grace Thanksgiving: Food Bank on November 18 2011 from Grace EV Free on Vimeo.

Enjoy this recap video from our Food Bank at Grace EV Free, La Mirada.

I was able to get this great shot in June of 2011 in Western China.

I had a really fun time with Bryan Kuranaga and Kathryn Heberling during their engagement photo session at the Fullerton Arboretum. This was truly a beautiful day with a beautiful couple. Many blessings on their engagement and marriage.

I had such a wonderful time photographing the beautiful Johnson Wedding in Yorba Linda and Fullerton. Enjoy these pictures and rejoice with the happy couple.

I interviewed Eddie Kramer and recorded this video for Waves on the new Kramer Master Tape plug in from Waves. It is hot!
 

In this video, producer/engineer Eddie Kramer (Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones) provides an overview of the Kramer Master Tape and how it can help you warm up your mixes.

Developed in association with Eddie Kramer, the Kramer Master Tape plugin is modeled on a rare machine consisting of an Ampex 350 transport and 351 electronics. With adjustable tape speed, bias, flux, wow & flutter, and noise parameters, the Kramer Master Tape provides comprehensive control over the contours of your sound. And to top it off, we’ve added a flexible slap & feedback delay, ideal for rock, dance, dub, you name it. For recording, mixing, mastering, and more, bring the richness and warmth of real tape saturation to your DAW with the Kramer Master Tape plugin. It’s the reel deal.

The Kramer Master Tape Plugin Dream Team
Special thanks go out to Eric Schilling (Shakira, Gloria Estefan, Natalie Cole, Elton John) who provided us with the machine, Bob Olhsson (Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross) and especially John Haeny (Bonnie Raitt, Weather Report, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Jim Morrison, Tom Jones), who provided invaluable assistance in the development of the Kramer Master Tape plugin.

SPEED selects the simulated tape speed.
MONITOR selects the monitoring mode.
BIAS controls the level of the ultrasonic bias signal.
VU METER displays input or output level.
VU CALIBRATION controls the VU meter headroom calibration.
DELAY TIME controls the time of the tape delay effect, with settings for 7.5 ips (266 milliseconds) and 15 ips (133 ms).
DELAY TYPE toggles between delay modes.
FEEDBACK controls the amount of the delayed output signal.
LOWPASS controls the LP cutoff frequency on the delay path.
RECORD LEVEL controls the input level.
LINK I/O links Record and Playback Levels controls.
PLAYBACK LEVEL controls the total signal output level.
FLUX controls the level of simulated magnetic radiation emitted from the record head.
WOW & FLUTTER controls the speed and gain modulations and fluctuations.
NOISE controls the level of added modeled noise but not noise modulations and signal additive noise.

In this exclusive video, producer / engineer Val Garay explains how the Aphex Vintage Aural Exciter® helped shape the sound of hit records for artists like Linda Ronstadt, Neil Diamond, The Four Seasons, and James Taylor.

Shooting and interview by Brian Petersen for Waves at the Village Studios in Los Angeles. Assisted by the legendary Phil Towne.

Related plugin: Waves Aphex Vintage Aural Exciter®

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2011 Senior Recital of Trevor Gomes at Biola

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Andrew Scheps on the Waves Masters Tour at the Village Studios on March 13, 2011.

Visit Andrew’s site at http://www.scheps.com/

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© 2010 Brian Petersen

After graduating from the University of Miami’s music school, Andrew Scheps worked for Synclavier. Following that he toured with both Stevie Wonder as a keyboard tech and Michael Jackson as a mixing engineer. Eventually Andrew began concentrating on recording, and he found himself engineering for some of the most successful producers in rock: Don Was, Rob Cavallo, and Rick Rubin.

Andrew has recorded such diverse artists as Audioslave, Green Day, Johnny Cash, Jewel, Neil Diamond, Limp Bizkit, Alanis Morissette, The Rolling Stones, and Linkin Park. Artists such as U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z, and Camp Freddy featuring Scott Weiland have taken advantage of Andrew’s talents as a mixing engineer.

Read more: http://www.waves.com/content.aspx?id=3545#ixzz1ItJYDgGL

Andrew Schep’s Discography
 

2011 America World Adoption Seminar at Grace EV Free

Enjoy photos and video from the 2011 America World Adoption Seminar held at Grace EV Free.

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Trevor Gomes recording sessions. Engineered by Brian Petersen.

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Waves Grammy Congratulations NAMM 2011 from Brian Petersen on Vimeo.

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Chris Lord-Alge
Jack Joseph Puig
Manny Marroquin
Ross Hograth
Andrew Scheps
Dave Aron
Val Garay
Stevie Black
Scott Martin Gershin
Rob Arbittier
John Mills
Nic tenBroek
Michael Pearson Adams
Jordan Rudess

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Photo from the 2011 Pasadena Rose Parade

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© 2010 Brian Petersen

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Jack Joseph Puig is among the most sought-after producers and mixing engineers in the music industry.

Jack Joseph Puig is world-renowned as a producer, mixer, and engineer, blending the sounds of the past three decades to create a unique contemporary aural tapestry. As one of the industry’s most in-demand engineers, Puig has manned the controls for a veritable who’s who of major artists.

Recently, Jack Joseph Puig collaborated with Waves on The JJP Analog Legends, which features four precision-modeled plugins based on rare gear from his own studio. Here are some photos of a recent session with Jack as he explains the front and back end of the plugins.

Check out his plugins
http://www.waves.com/Content.aspx?id=7306
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About JJP Analog Legends

JJP Analog Legends is the result of an ongoing Waves research and development project that has lasted over 3 years.

Fairchild compressors are among the very rarest pieces of recording gear; it’s rumored that less than 50 were originally manufactured. One of the first things we discovered when testing Fairchilds is that each model sounds different. In fact, even within the same stereo module, each channel can sound and behave differently! Only a few fortunate studios in the world have multiple units, with the opportunity to compare the subtle differences between them. And so, our quest for the best sounding Fairchild led us to producer/mixing engineer Jack Joseph Puig, well-known in audio circles for his enviable collection of hard-to-find gear.

Jack loaned us his very best sounding unit, and we painstakingly analyzed and modeled its every attribute, replicating its sound and behavior to the point where the software was virtually indistinguishable from hardware. Jack was an indispensable part of the development process, greatly assisting the Waves team by testing and fine tuning the software models of his hardware, as well as contributing an extensive library of his personal presets.

So when you fire up the PuigChild, it’s almost as if you were working together with Jack Joseph Puig in Ocean Way studios. Better yet, it’s as if he loaned you a Fairchild. And not just any Fairchild; his BEST Fairchild.

Read more: http://www.waves.com/content.aspx?id=7665#ixzz17TpKxhKD

Among his clients:
The Rolling Stones, U2, Black Eyed Peas, Green Day, Fergie, John Mayer, Sheryl Crow, Klaxons, Panic At The Disco, Weezer, Counting Crows, Pussycat Dolls, Goo Goo Dolls, The Black Crowes, Switchfoot, No Doubt, Mary J. Blige, and more.

Puig has produced hits for the Verve Pipe (“Freshmen”) and The Black Crows (“Good Friday”), among others. Calling Ocean Way his home, Puig has spent time both as an engineer and as a producer and sees the duality as a plus when dealing with today’s Top 40 rock acts, many of whom ask him to mix their albums as well. He has also mixed albums for Hole, Collective Soul, Green Day, Mick Jagger, Lisa Loeb, and others.

Puig’s Picks

The vintage hardware modeled in the JJP Analog Legends are among the rarest, most coveted pieces in the audio world. The PuigChild 660, PuigChild 670, PuigTec EQP-1A, and PuigTec MEQ-5 are based on these acclaimed units.

About Fairchild: Among gear aficionados, the stereo Fairchild 670 is considered the most coveted of all compressors, not only because of its pristine sound, but also its rarity and price: 670s routinely go for tens of thousands of dollars on the vintage market. (They originally cost less than $1000.) With 20 vacuum tubes and 4 hand-wired transformers in a hefty 6 rack-space chassis, these hard-to-find units weigh in at a robust 65 lbs.

Designed by Estonian-born Rein Narma in the early 1950s, both the stereo 670 and its mono counterpart the Fairchild 660 use single push-pull amplification stages with extremely high control voltages. Both variable-mu limiters are unique in that they use tubes for gain reduction as well as amplification. Compression takes place directly in the audio path, rather than being routed to a separate circuit.

Prior to the 660 and 670, Narma’s Gotham Audio Developments had built consoles and components for such luminaries as Rudy Van Gelder and Les Paul. Shortly after Paul asked Narma to build a limiter, Sherman Fairchild caught wind of the project, licensed the design, and hired Narma to come onboard as the company’s chief engineer. After his stint at Fairchild, Narma relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area and became vice president of Ampex, pioneers of multitrack recording equipment.
About Pultec

Custom-engineered and built by hand, the original Pultecs have long been a top choice of leading recording and mastering engineers. Pultecs are renowned for their ability to accentuate individual frequency ranges without significantly altering other frequencies.
In 1951, Gene Shenk and Ollie Summerland of Pulse Techniques Inc. introduced the first passive program equalizer, the EQP-1. Using equalization circuit designs licensed from Western Electric, the initial Pultecs suffered the gain insertion losses typical of passive filters. So, they added a gain makeup stage, using a push-pull design with multiple vacuum tubes. The result is the classic we’ve come to know as the EQP-1A.

Conceived and created for broadband equalization, the EQP-1A features four low boost/cut frequencies, three high-cut frequencies and seven HF boost points, along with a bandwidth control for shaping the high boost curve. The EQP-1A and the MEQ-5 together comprise one of the best known equalization chains in audio history.

More about Jack Joseph Puig

Jack Joseph Puig is a Grammy Award-winning music engineer and producer with a long track record of successful productions, beginning with the mid 1990′s production of Tonic. Following this breakout success, Puig went on to work with Hole, Jellyfish, The Black Crowes,^[1] John Mayer, Weezer, Fiona Apple, Green Day, The Counting Crows, No Doubt, Klaxons, Panic at the Disco, Stone Temple Pilots, U2, and many others. Puig has shared Grammy Awards with The Goo Goo Dolls, Sheryl Crow, Vanessa Carlton, John Mayer, Fergie (Black Eyed Peas), U2, and No Doubt. In 2006 Jack Joseph Puig became a E.V.P. atInterscope-Geffen-A&M Records. He has signed Klaxons and Charlotte Sometimes. As a A&R man he works with Shirley Manson, Ashlee Simpson, Klaxons, Charlotte Sometimes, The Counting Crows, Puddle of Mudd, and The Like.

Prior to his mainstream music production successes Puig rose to prominence as an engineer in the Contemporary Christian music scene of the mid-eighties. He worked mainly on Myrrh Record releases. He engineered for Christian acts sych as Amy Grant and Russ Taff. Some of the records he engineered were Grammy-award winning works such as Grant’s landmark 1985 LP Unguarded.

Partial discography

• Semisonic – Feeling Strangely Fine (1998) m
• Robbie Williams – I’ve Been Expecting You (1998) p/m
• John Hiatt – Stolen Moments (2005) e/m
• Bette Midler – Some People’s Lives (1990) m
• Jellyfish – Bellybutton (1990) e/p
• Bette Midler – For the Boys (soundtrack) (1991) m
• Jellyfish – Spilt Milk (1993) e/p/m
• The Grays – Ro Sham Bo (1994) p
• The Black Crowes – Amorica (1994) e/p/m
• Tonic – Lemon Parade (1996) e/p/m
• Weezer – Pinkerton (1996) e/m
• The Black Crowes – Three Snakes & One Charm (1996) e/p/m
• Talk Show – Talk Show (1997) m
• Big Wreck – In Loving Memory Of… (1997) m
• Hole – Celebrity Skin (1998) m
• Goo Goo Dolls – Dizzy Up The Girl (1998) p/m
• Sparklehorse – Good Morning Spider (1999) p/m
• Stone Temple Pilots – Revolution (1999) m
• The Counting Crows – This Desert Life (1999) m
• Beck – Nicotine & Gravy (1999) m
• No Doubt – Return of Saturn (2000) m
• Green Day – Warning (2000) m
• Collective Soul – Blender (2000) m
• Five For Fighting – Easy Tonight (2000) p/m
• Shelby Lynne – Bridget Jones’ Diary, original soundtrack (2001) m
• Tricky – Blowback (2001) m
• Remy Zero – The Golden Hum (2001) e/p/m
• The Rolling Stones – 40 Licks (2002) m
• Phantom Planet – The Guest (2002) m
• Sheryl Crow – C’mon C’mon (2002) m
• Vanessa Carlton – Be Not Nobody (2002) m
• Vanessa Carlton – A Thousand Miles (2002) m
• The Counting Crows – Hard Candy (2002) m
• Switchfoot – The Beautiful Letdown (2003) m
• Stereomud – Every Given Moment (2003) m
• The Ataris – So Long, Astoria (2003) m
• Stereophonics – You Gotta Go There to Come Back (2003) m
• John Mayer – Heavier Things (2003) e/p/m
• No Doubt – The Singles: 1992-2003 (2003) m
• 311 – Greatest Hits ’93-’03 (2004) m
• Sum 41 – Killer Queen(2005) e/p/m
• Aqualung – Strange and Beautiful (2005) m
• Son Volt – Retrospective 1995-2000 (2005) m
• Black Eyed Peas – Monkey Business (2005) m
• The Rolling Stones – A Bigger Bang (2005) m
• The Rolling Stones – Biggest Mistake (2005) m
• The Pussycat Dolls – PCD (2005) m
• Mary J. Blige – The Breakthrough (2005) m
• John Hiatt – Chronicles (2005) e/m
• Goo Goo Dolls – Let Love In (2006) m
• Dashboard Confessional – Dusk and Summer (2006) m
• Fergie – The Dutchess (2006) m
• The Academy Is – Santi (2007) m
• Macy Gray – Big (2007) m
• U2 – Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur (2007) p/m
• Lifehouse – Who We Are (2007) m
• Queen Latifah – Trav’lin’ Light(2007) m
• Puddle of Mudd – Psycho (2007) p/m
• Klaxons – Golden Skans radio remix (2007) m
• Eric Clapton – Complete Clapton (2007) m
• Panic at the Disco – Nine in the Afternoon (2007) m
• Charlotte Sometimes– Waves and the Both of Us (2008) p/m
• Jack Savoretti - Harder Than Easy (2009) m
• Kylie Morgan (country artist) 2010