Harold LaRue Mastering

Had a blast hanging with The Grinch and being Santa for the @htxdogrescue holiday fundraiser. The first hooman that was handed to me came with a firm, “Don’t drop my baby.” 😅 The kids were cute, but pups have my heart. 🐶🦴💙

Had a wonderful evening at Modern Electric Sound Recorders in Dallas. Owners Beau Bedford and Jeff Saenz were great hosts for the @recording academy - Texas Chapter P&E mixer. Thanks to Avi Minkoff and his team for putting it together. This was my Grammy U mentees’ first studio party — a treat!

Love this!

There are probably a zillion variables. How many could you master if your assistants receive, review, analyze, and prepare every session? After you do the analog passes and some tweaking, the assistants take over, doing tops, tails, QA, final assembly, metadata, rendering, delivery, and invoicing.

$300/hr for some A-List MEs.

I’m primarily a mastering engineer. For mixing, I’d lean more toward:
FF Pro-Q3 or Stock EQ
Klanghelm MJUC or UAD 175B
UAD Pultec
TDR Arbiter

FabFilter Pro-Q3
Weiss Deess
Leapwing Dyn-One3
DMG Limitless
ToneProjects BassLane Pro

Thanks to my brother, Jean-Michel Crevière, for the best holiday card ever! Will have a little mic-building fun in ‘25.

It is becoming commonplace to release hardware and software ‘clones’ of products without obtaining licensing or permission from the original manufacturers and developers. Nowhere does it say ‘Lavry’ or ‘Licensed by Lavry’ on this plugin, yet it clearly resembles the Lavry Gold unit.

Sad to see SO many hard working, innovative, and risk-taking companies, that are *still in business*, have their IP and branding blatantly stolen by knock-off hardware and software companies. Piracy is *not* a legitimate form of R&D.

🛎️🛎️🛎️

Soooo weird…was playing pool at my fave local dive bar when the off-duty bartender, wearing an “I’m with the Felon” t-shirt, played ‘YMCA’ and strutted back to his table…wild.

Great to see you here, Brother! Gobble Gobble!

The Homie Trinity

Love the Little Steven vibes.

Perhaps. Request to join the ‘Houston Audio Engineers’ FB Group and ask there. Would be great to see you!

What if we’re not the ‘re-tweeting’ type?

Great to see everyone at the Houston Audio Engineers Luncheon yesterday. 150+ gathered for food, fun, fraternity, and prizes. Huge thanks to Haniel Trisna and Jason Lapasinskas for your incredible work organizing and executing this event…wow!

Servicing an old Soundcraft 1600 mixing console for a local studio owner. Replaced the VERY tired filter caps and tested good under load. The previous owners cut power to the VU lamps, so will track that down this evening.

Thank you, Ian!

Thank you, Justin!

It’s been a minute since my drums have been on stage, but when @thechrisjanson and @crash.wilson needed a kick drum for the show, it was ready to go. ⭐️ 60’s Gold Sparkle Ludwigs ⭐️