The Audio Engineer

Pat offers audio/video mastering, repair, and restoration services for pre-existing recordings.  Transform amateur quality into professional quality — contact Pat for a free 30 minute consultation.

Can Pat Help?  Situations Commonly Tackled by Mr. Pat…

Did the recording with your portable recorder not turn out as you had hoped? Does the in-house recording sound dull, and narrow?  Did someone maul the quality of your only recording of a cherished performance or event? Was that baritone just a bit too loud for the entire performance? Do you have a recording of a perfect performance, minus one note? Have others deemed your recording as “unfixable?” Is your ox in the ditch?  Well rest assured, whether you need your recording to be miraculously fixed, or a professional to do it right the first time, Mr. Crowe is here to help! Contact Pat today for a free 30-minute consultation.

Digital organ technology has immense potential. Sadly, that potential is rarely realized to full-fruition. As any good organist will attest, bad digital organs are as plentiful as they are uninspiring and lifeless to play. As a performing organist, and lover of fine pipe organs, Pat knew that as an increasing trend since the early 20th century, bad electronic organs were not going away.  But audio engineer, he knew that something could be done, to develop cost-effective methods to transform subpar digital organs into true musical instruments.

In many digital organs, results are hit or miss, because crucial aspects of sound production are based on guesswork — a mere attempt to recreate the original sounds recorded. Countless factors affect the accuracy of sound production in any digital organ installation, leaving guesswork to produce vastly inconsistent results. The only answer to improve digital organs is through a marriage of musical artistry, time-tested science, and audio engineering expertise.

When Pat Crowe is hired to renovate an existing digital organ, or optimize a Hauptwerk/GrandOrgue instrument, he uses time-tested scientific methodology with scientific-grade measurement equipement to ensure that he attains the highest level of accuracy possible from your existing speaker system.

Digital Organ Services:  Setup, Optimization, and Consultation Services for New Hauptwerk and GrandOrgue Instruments; In-Depth Voicing of Hauptwerk, GrandOrgue, and Rodgers instruments; Professional Speaker Calibration, Professional Digital Organ Console Conversion Services for Hauptwerk/GrandOrgue (including Allen consoles), Console Upgrades, High Definition Organ Sampling Service for GrandOrgue/Hauptwerk (Choose a Pipe Rank in any Organ, and Pat Will Sample It for Use In GrandOrgue or Hauptwerk), and more.

Mr. Crowe is proud to provide a exciting new acoustical analysis service for consumer and professional clients!  Mr. Crowe is one of a small number of audio engineers in the Southwest that provides acoustical testing services and raw data for consumer clients, home theaters, houses of worship, architects, acousticians, professional audio installers, and scientists.

Services: Acoustical analysis, room EQ calibration, dB level readings, speaker calibration, and more.

Why? Accurate acoustical analysis data is invaluable for giving insight into the acoustical traits of any room, informing methods of acoustical correction through methods such as acoustical treatment and EQ compensation.

Benefits: Acoustical analysis allows Mr. Crowe to offer Digital Room EQ calibration of existing sound systems, to compensate for acoustical traits of any given room. This is invaluable for common situations where where traditional acoustical treatment methods are prohibitory.  Professional EQ calibration is the best way to take any sound system from good to spectacular, especially for sound systems in home theaters, houses of worship, digital organs, auditoriums, and more.

How?  This service uses laboratory-calibrated microphones and advanced software to generate data for acoustical analysis by trained professionals, allowing for room frequency response correction through room modification, digital EQ calibration, and digital frequency time-domain correction — altering the arrival time of different frequencies to a given area of a room.

For more information, please contact Pat for a free 30-minute consultation.