I'm Tony Ferraro, and I'm excited to join the diyAudio community! I know a lot about recording and I know how to setup and use complicated professional audio equipment, but I know very little about circuit design as a whole. I can troubleshoot and fix most audio related gear, but would like to learn so much more. I want to understand how circuits are designed, how components work, why components are chosen for certain designs and how they affect the signal in a circuit. I want to be able to backwards engineer any circuit and be able to make a schematic on my own. Eventually, I want to design and fabricate circuits for custom audio projects.
22 years professional experience working as a recording/live sound engineer, record producer, drummer/musician, vinyl scratch DJ, etc. I've always had a passion for music and am always curious about how things work. I got much more interested in diy audio when I had $4000 microphone pre-amps and other gear in my studio would malfunction and needed service. I couldn't afford to pay or wait to get these things fixed. I slowly started to figure out how to do it myself. After a while, people started asking if I could fix their gear and made some decent cash doing it. To make a long story short, a large portion of my income comes from repairing, servicing and selling audio equipment. It's hard to say I actually know how electronics work, but I end up figuring out whats wrong and doing the repairs myself.
I think I have the unique ability to answer a lot of questions from a different, but very useful perspective. I am more than happy to share my knowledge and am glad I have somewhere to post questions and get help troubleshooting projects I'm working on.
About me about my background-
I started my career obtaining a degree in Recording and Engineering at Music Tech College of Music in St. Paul, MN. My professors noticed I had a good ear as I quickly earned a solid reputation for many established musicians in the Twin Cities music scene. I ended up spending 12 hrs a day at school, taking advantage of free studio time recording local musicians using world class recording gear.
I was fortunate to learn how to record music using the best equipment while I went to school, but soon after found myself struggling to make anything sound half-way decent, recording death metal bands in a drywall dungeon practice space where I had to battle sound bleed from multiple other bands and mixing on headphones using extremely primitive physical (large and heavy) DAWs and shitty microphones. 2003 was a terrible time for digital recordings. Everything sounded bad, everything took forever, nothing worked right and computers would crash a lot. I somehow had a reputation with respected national recording artists that had a high standard for quality.
I don't know if any of this info is useful to anyone else. I might add to this later...
22 years professional experience working as a recording/live sound engineer, record producer, drummer/musician, vinyl scratch DJ, etc. I've always had a passion for music and am always curious about how things work. I got much more interested in diy audio when I had $4000 microphone pre-amps and other gear in my studio would malfunction and needed service. I couldn't afford to pay or wait to get these things fixed. I slowly started to figure out how to do it myself. After a while, people started asking if I could fix their gear and made some decent cash doing it. To make a long story short, a large portion of my income comes from repairing, servicing and selling audio equipment. It's hard to say I actually know how electronics work, but I end up figuring out whats wrong and doing the repairs myself.
I think I have the unique ability to answer a lot of questions from a different, but very useful perspective. I am more than happy to share my knowledge and am glad I have somewhere to post questions and get help troubleshooting projects I'm working on.
About me about my background-
I started my career obtaining a degree in Recording and Engineering at Music Tech College of Music in St. Paul, MN. My professors noticed I had a good ear as I quickly earned a solid reputation for many established musicians in the Twin Cities music scene. I ended up spending 12 hrs a day at school, taking advantage of free studio time recording local musicians using world class recording gear.
I was fortunate to learn how to record music using the best equipment while I went to school, but soon after found myself struggling to make anything sound half-way decent, recording death metal bands in a drywall dungeon practice space where I had to battle sound bleed from multiple other bands and mixing on headphones using extremely primitive physical (large and heavy) DAWs and shitty microphones. 2003 was a terrible time for digital recordings. Everything sounded bad, everything took forever, nothing worked right and computers would crash a lot. I somehow had a reputation with respected national recording artists that had a high standard for quality.
I don't know if any of this info is useful to anyone else. I might add to this later...
