This is probably hopefully maybe the first in a series of posts that spiral through my head on a bi-weekly basis of things I’ve learned/gleaned/stolen from mentors and peers on particular topics, niche topics where information and opinions are less readily available than “how to make scrambled eggs”. Nothing in this post has any value… Read more: How To Make Load-In Suck Less (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tech Rider)

This weekend I mixed Tulsa Symphony Orchestra’s presentation of “Star Wars: A New Hope Live in Concert”. Though I have some experience working in Symphonic recording, this event was a lot of new territory for me. Reinforcing a full live Orchestra in an a proscenium style theatre with playback is one thing, but Star Wars?… Read more: “I dunno, stick a mic on it and we’ll see”

This past weekend I had the pleasure of playing console monkey for a production by the Tulsa Ballet. The program featured two pieces, Ma Kong’s “Flight of Fancy” followed by the world premier of “Breakin’ Bricks: Finding Spirit Through Ashes”. The pieces were vastly different, both in content and in technical production. For the audio… Read more: Josh Learns About Ballet

One of the few benefits of the extended time we’ve all spent at home in the past couple of years due to the COVID-19 pandemic is that we have more time to explore answers to questions we may have just discarded previously. While mowing my lawn a few months back I started thinking about an… Read more: Hearing Loss and Aviation Article

Over the past few weeks, I’ve gotten the chance to fly with a local CFI and earn my tailwheel endorsement. We spent around three hours in the air over the course of a week or so in his J3 Cub learning the basics of tailwheel flying, focusing primarily on the tricky bits, take offs and… Read more: Wrangling The Stearman