KEVIN BECKA - IN DEMAND

Educator, editor and recording engineer/producer Kevin Becka is in demand more than ever.  From his chairs as technical editor for Mix Magazine and Director of Education at the Conservatory Of Recording Arts in Pheonix, Keving is presenting his "how to mic" series of articles and video seminiars. His first video seminar is on Drum Micing and Mix releases his "Guitar Micing" seminar in March.

It was 1996 and I was new to the net when I came across "the mining company" and Kevin Becka's site called "Home Recording."  My school, Recording Institute of Detroit, had one of those sites up that never changed and I was personally learning how the net worked with AOL.  I was so intrigued with Kevin's "Lesson of The Week" for the net surfers that I soon emulated him with my "Tip of The Week Series." - tied into my favorite site, The Recording Website. I began to post a "Tip of the week"  which was linked weekly at recording website instead of posting answers to dozens and dozens of questions that were all similar on individual threads.  Besides being a web columnist Ken was a lecturer at the Conservatory of Recording in Phoenix, Arizona.

In addition to posting the lesson of the week, Kevin browsed the net for sites about audio and wound up linking my Tip of The Week and REQ magazine article postings a few times.  Kevin is one of the few "good guys" in the industry who will be happy to tell you what he knows if it will help you get better in the industry. 

Kevin went on to work as an editor for a couple of industry magazines and did some independent engineering and production.  Today he is back at the Conservatory, this time as an associate Director of Education and is also the technical editor for Mix Magazine.  Interestingly enough, I'm, still running RID and now I own The Recording Website.  It seems like we are back to where we started except maybe on a higher plane.

At Mix Magazine Kevin has put together a video seminar on the subject of drum micing.  This is a seminar that I think all recording enthusiasts should view.  He also begins a series of articles on micing for recording in the January Issue of Mix Magazine.  To view his seminar you will need to fill out a survey about your project studio and interest - but as soon as you submit the survey you will be able to view the seminar.