For the first time this summer I feel like I have a lot of work to do, which is great. So far my bosses have been unsure of what to delegate to me, not because of what my abilities are, but because they have so many extraneous side projects they want to get done but don’t have the materials yet to do them. This has resulted in a lot of “hey Casey I’d really like to do this marketing idea with one of our products, could you look into the best way to do this and what we would need?”, so I look into it, send them a list of materials, and then wait two weeks to get them (I’m still waiting on cymbals in order to do drum recordings, which was planned a month ago). Of course there are also a lot of little projects here and there which keep me busy for the most part, but my current project has been super cool to work with and has kept me busy for the past several days.

Like I mentioned before, I’m creating impulse responses of guitar amplifiers. This has been an amazing skill to learn and I plan on using it on so many things when I get back to school. Unfortunately it has gotten a little tedious because of the repetitive nature of making so many of them at a time with different mic choices and placements. So far I have made over 50 different IRs with 5 different amps, using various mics, mic placements, and room situations. I even created an isolation chamber with materials I found around the office. They had a pile of 8’x4′ acoustic panels in a closet from their previous building, which I propped up in a rectangle against a wall with an acoustic quadratic diffuser. I put the amp inside, lined the sides of the chamber with leftover acoustic foam panels and corner pieces (more stuff that I found lying around their equipment closet) and it actually worked pretty well. I was able to get very clear IRs with zero extraneous room tone, which was the goal.