| Pro Audio ReviewProfessor and coordinator of the recording technology program at Citrus College in Calif., Gary Mraz is currently finishing final recordings and multichannel mixes for Studio Voodoo. This project will be the first music release to use the new DTS-ES 6.1 channel system, which provides for a center surround channel. Mraz related to me during an interview that the DTS-ES system will also provide a control, or effects track for triggering lighting and staging effects for any creative purpose. "When Studio Voodoo is finished and released, we will tour using special 6.1 mixes to play live while synchronized to theprerecorded material." Mraz continued, "the new DTS-ES system will be able to provide an extra channel for click track, so a drummer and DJ can play their live keyboard sounds as wwell with the prerecorded sounds.
Mraz has been an instructor for more than 10 years, teaching at Pasadena City College before joining the staff at Citrus College. He is also an accomplished keyboard player. Studio Voodoo evidences his adeptness with very clever and creative use of analog and digital processors, including Moog and Oberheim. Mraz explained that in several passages he used an Auddity arpeggiator from an E-Mu system, which has some striking effects on its own. He then feeds the results into an Akai Headrush processor, which has one channel in, but five channels of succesive delay output.
For Los Angeles area PAR readers, Mraz reveals that the first live performance of Studio Voodoo using 6.1 technology in a live show will be this autumn at Platinum Live in Hollywood
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