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CHARLES LAURENCE<br />
PRODUCTIONS<br />
clpstudios.com<br />
– JONATHAN WIDRAN<br />
One-Stop Shop Recording and Restoration Facility: Perfectly combining<br />
his major/minor of Chemical Engineering/Electronics and Music at Cal<br />
State Northridge, Charles Laurence had a brief flirtation with the aerospace<br />
industry before launching Charles Laurence Productions, a one-stop<br />
state-of-the-art recording, audio/video and production facility. His studio not<br />
only provides state-of-the-art recording production, audio/video and artist<br />
management, but also restoration and re-mastering services. While his<br />
main studio room is dedicated to new recordings, he also devotes ample<br />
space to vintage analog tape restoration, baking and transfer and legacy<br />
data acquisition and digital transfer via such technologies as Syquest and<br />
Jaz and Mac to PC Audio transfers from programs like Cubase.<br />
Laurence also does 24 and 32 track music production (analog and<br />
digital), with synths, percussion and grand piano on site, and has an<br />
audio production studio with thousands of sound effects. Over the years,<br />
he’s also re-mastered hundreds of classic pop and jazz recordings (Billie<br />
Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Ike & Tina Turner).<br />
Video Restoration and Production Services: In 2010, Laurence brought<br />
a diverse video component to his production and restoration business, offering<br />
such services as 8 mm, 16mm 3/4 inch, Beta and VHS film transfers<br />
to DVD; ½ video, mono ¾ Umatic transfers; video editing, DVD Duplication<br />
and the creation of training videos. One of the key technologies he uses is<br />
the Final Cut Pro Editing with a Motion plug in. He also does video restoration,<br />
transfers, time base and color correction, which helps stabilize the<br />
picture and restore old videos for digital presentation on DVD. “The most<br />
dynamic part of transferring old to new technologies is using the best of<br />
what we had in the ‘80s and ‘90s, including pro VHS players and hi fi with<br />
newer technologies like the time base corrector,” says Laurence.<br />
Innovations: Over the years, Laurence’s three-room facility has not only<br />
stayed on the cutting edge of technology, but transcended it through<br />
in-house innovations. Designing his own equipment for fidelity optimization,<br />
he has developed pre-amps, buffer amps and dual servo pre-amps,<br />
among many other new technologies.<br />
Contact Charles Laurence Productions, 818-368-4962<br />
8 April 2015 musicconnection.com
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