He was a celebrity to me … I was there for the monitors but then I met somebody who was doing the thing for life as a career… so, I walked into the studio seen the white cones of my monitors… then asked him again… so what is all these set-up. The pictures told me about this old man’s background … then I asked him… wow how did you get to have all these celebrities with you in the photos ? then he claimed I used to be an audio engineer for the BBC in London. He was a former recording and studio engineer of the BBC in London and retired because of his illness and moved to Manchester. When I got in the house on the walls I saw pictures of him with Tom Jones, him with Elton John, him with the Beatles and other celebrities who stepped on the audio room of the BBC.
I was due to travel for the pick up and when I got to his house… this retired old man invited me to come in and had a look at his home studio. One day I had won a pair of Yamaha HS50’s from a guy in Sale. Well, my story with this mixer even if I hadn’t used one and instead used the mackie at studio C in Salford University, Newton building was that. Mackie sued Behringer for making copies of their mixer specially this one but they lost the case because it was said to be different… same looks and sound is very close for a fraction of the price but different inside… well a very close copy I would say. not bad for a 24 channel or 32 channel version. Ok folks more of the Audio goodness… here’s one for the newbies… the old folks knows this but if you are a newbie then read on… ok… what can you see ? guess ? of course it’s a mixer but what make ? well, if you don’t have enough of the bucks then this is the one for you to start with… it’s a Behringer MX8000… bet you think it was a Mackie 8 bus… popular mixer where many hits was made… hmmm this is a Behringer… and if you know the story behind this mixer then you would get one of these on ebay for £175 OR £200 quid…. Here’s the silent version of ” Life is a mixer “… Independence or Autonomy is one as well, were each individual did his own research and contributed to the finalization of the whole project… Self-management and initiative, these are just samples of the skills being demonstrated by our team Ric, Nick and Kabir. Time Management has been demonstrated as everybody tried to push themselves to get on with the tasks and complete it.
Life was said to be composed of different chapters represented by channels on a mixing desk and we just have to prepare when our time runs out. The message one can learn from our video will be relevant. Also, creating something new and relevant out of the BBC Archives. And all decided that yes, we are skillfull enough to make our own individual edits employing Creativity using softwares like Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro. Teamwork has been demonstrated by the group as we shared the ideas and footages for the direction we wanted to go. It all started from a single idea ( thinking skills) LIFE IS A MIXER … how? and the group managed to expound on the idea and created something new and relevant to the graduate skills being mentioned on blackboard.Ĭommunication as a skill was demonstrated by the use of visual and audio-visual, digital and including social networking. It’s been a great opportunity for us to have a chance to work on some archives from the BBC and there’s only a handful of people and students being tapped to do this sort of special project. The video has been created only that we are trying to finalize the background music for it. Looking back to how our group started with this sort of metaphor of relating life to a mixer or mixing desk our work is almost finish.