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Issue #187
by L. Swift and Jeff McQ
Rob Weston, Jason Mewes, and Juan Armijos on the
set of A Madness in the Method
When mentor Josh Denhardt first became a Recording Connection student, he recalls immediately bonding with his mentor—Ryan Conway of Conway Sound in Denver, Colorado.
“After meeting him I quickly knew that he was definitely going to be the person I wanted to learn from,” says Josh, “because of his background and personality and everything. Everything kind of clicked really fast, like that, and I kind of had a good feeling from the start…We basically just hit it off right away.”
From there, Josh says he spent so much time at the studio that he worked himself into a job. “Once I got there, I just kind of never left, and he just got tired of kicking me out of the studio,” he quips. “Eventually he said, ‘Well, you can just keep working here, I guess.’”
Today, that working relationship is developing into more. Now a Recording Connection mentor himself, Josh is partnering with Ryan on a huge studio expansion for Conway Sound, including a pilot EDM training program that Josh will ultimately oversee!
“It’s really exciting because it’s a brand-new location,” he says. “It’s going to be a bigger studio… There’s going to be extra control rooms. Multiple engineers can work, but there’s also going to be a wing with a large production suite for students and a live setup to practice DJ’ing live…[I want to] to take the excitement of classes and things to a whole other level.”
Control Room in Conway Sound
Weeks into the program, Recording Connection student Ezekiel Aguilar (San Diego, CA), who is apprenticing with Patrick Heaney at Phaser Control Recording, is learning what it takes to transform a simple loop into a full-fledged song. Ezekiel says, “When I got to the studio for my second lesson I had a four bar loop I was working on. I had all the parts to a song but I had no idea how to arrange it. So my mentor Patrick showed me arrangement. While he was helping me arrange the beat I was him watching and learning how he used Logic and the functions it has. When we got it to three minutes, I started adding fills to add different sounds and textures to make it sound fuller and less repetitive. At the end of the lesson, I had a basic idea how to arrange a beat. I was very happy to hear the difference between the track I walked with and the one I left with.”
Film Connection student Jessica Wise (Lexington, KY) who apprentices with David Cottingham at Post Time Studios has been in the throes of writing not one but two screenplays. When she isn’t writing, Jessica has discovered there’s a demand for her in front of the camera: “Acting-wise, I finally got to see myself in The Running Girl! Post-production on the short film finished up in July and I got to see it in all its glory. I was very surprised by my own performance. I was certain it was cringe-worthy and that I’d hate the sound of my own voice on camera but both of those assumptions proved false. Editing-wise, I was very impressed with how Rusty was able to put this together. When you’re filming a scene for a story that you didn’t write, it is sometimes hard to imagine what the director is envisioning. So seeing how the scenes (some of which I was confused by or skeptical of) actually played out in a way that made sense was eye-opening…i.e. trust the director! There are a few things that need to be done before this film is published but hopefully I’ll be able to share it soon! I’ve also gotten to be an extra in a couple more commercials for Post Time. Who knew going into this that I would be on the camera so much?!”
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