Live Design Online: Inspired while growing up in Los Angeles by an extended family that performed and appreciated music, Michael Badal dreamed of one day owning a Solid State Logic mixing console. A few decades later, now based in the Los Angeles area and working in both music and audio post-production, he has set up a personal studio. It features SSL's UF8, UF1, and UC1 hardware controllers, 360° software, as well as SSL outboard processing and summing hardware
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Once again, a super super cool article about a designer’s personal arsenal of tools and his work flow. I always love reading articles like this where it is kind of a deep dive into how the designer works because I can always learn more about that kind of stuff and I just find it so fascinating. I love how he talks about mixing old school and just really relying on his ears instead of what the screen tells him because at the end of the day, it is our ears that tells us what is right and wrong and not our eyes. The audience and listeners will never see this with their eyes and they won’t know that a certain thing is exactly at -10 dB or whatever. All they will know is whether or not the mix sounds good or not and so training your ear to tell you that is incredibly crucial. I wonder how Michael has trained his ears and whether or not he just goes off of natural instinct or if he has listened to enough stuff where he knows what he wants his projects to sound like and if he just matches the reality to what is in his head.
Sound design has always been something that has really interested me. At my high school in my junior year, I was tasked with being the Deck Chief/A2 kind of just in charge of a lot of things on stage as well as making sure mic frequency and all the packs were in good shape and doing what they needed to do. So when I hear about people creating different ideas for projects with sound, it really excites me because it's something I've kind of been through before, but definitely not to this caliber. I really liked how this article discussed Michael Badals creations and his use of different systems he had made to create this personal studio. Working on projects with renowned artists and brands is something that many wish to do, and Badal did just that; he overall emphasized the importance of being hands-on and efficient and just overall creative and the helpfulness of collaboration, which is something that I strive to do in my work and something that is really interesting about the audio world and the theater world in general.
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