BAE Audio President Mark Loughman to Present on Preamplifiers and EQs During Welcome to 1979 Recording Summit

Nashville, TN - November 6, 2017 – BAE Audio, a manufacturer of premium analog hardware built to vintage specifications, announced that its President, Mark Loughman, will participate in a panel at the 9th annual Welcome to 1979 Recording Summit in Nashville, Tennessee. The panel is entitled ‘Inside The World’s Most Famous EQs’ and discusses a range of classic vintage equalizers. He will joined by Jeff Steiger of Classis Audio Products, EveAnna Manley of Manley Labs, and Bill Skibbe of Key Club Recording Company.

Loughman, who first worked for BAE Audio as a technician repairing and repackaging vintage console hardware before taking the helm of the company in 2009, has helped burnish the company’s reputation for crafting the most authentic recreations of vintage circuits on the market, like the famous 1073 equalizer. The company’s hand-wired products are built entirely in California and feature the same premium components that helped give the vintage hardware they are based upon their characteristic sound.

“I’m always eager to delve into the finer points of these great EQs that have been featured on just about every record you’ve ever heard,” says Loughman. “They’re truly remarkable feats of design and engineering, and BAE Audio’s success is a testament to how coveted these over forty-year-old designs remain. They really came to define the sound of recorded music as we know it.”

Intimate Knowledge
The Summit, held at the analog-centric Welcome to 1979 studio complex, provides an opportunity for attendees to take in panels from top experts in the audio community in the intimate environs of the spacious 7,500 square foot studio. Without microphones, a stage, or slides, the intimate panels more closely mimic natural conversations about craft amongst engineers without the formality of a conventional trade show setting. The Panels are generally followed by an open question and answer period. Other highlights of the weekend include a live recording session cut to vinyl and listening parties of classic recordings. The recording summit is limited to 60 attendees is this year’s event is sold out.

“I’m really excited to welcome Mark Loughman to this year’s Recording Summit,” says producer, engineer, and Welcome to 1979 studio proprietor Chris Mara, who started the annual event after feeling dissatisfied with the playing-it-safe approach he found himself taking with his own panel appearances at show floor panels at the larger audio conventions. “I know how well-respected Mark is in the industry and I’ve used BAE Audio products myself. BAE really takes the time to really get to know the original hardware and create something faithful to it, so I’m excited to hear what he has to tell us.”

To learn more about BAE Audio, please visit http://www.baeaudio.com.

To learn more about the Welcome to 1979 Recording Summit, please visit: http://welcometo1979.com/what-we-do/recording-summit/

Drew Kennedy Releases At Home In The Big Lonesome

Singer, songwriter and storyteller’s eighth album released on November 3

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – November 3, 2017 – “This is the story of what life is like for those of us somewhere in the middle of it all. It’s about the journey to get to this point, and the giant question mark-shaped path we’re following onward from here. Of how even the best-laid plans for your next big step have to so often be altered because life calls,” singer-songwriter Drew Kennedy says of his new album, At Home In The Big Lonesome. Released today, the 11 tracks find the husband and father in familiar territory, though he ventures into his most complex musical territory to date.

“To be honest, I got tired of waiting for somebody to sing to me on the radio,” Kennedy said. “I kept wanting to hear someone tell a story that I could relate to at this moment in my life, but I couldn’t find it. So, I figured I’d sing it myself.”

Drew Kennedy - "Open Road" Video

No Depression premiered the Dave Brainard-produced album, which features layers of strings, lively percussion and lush piano pop. On At Home In The Big Lonesome, Kennedy evokes sharp images and strong emotions, casting characters including old men, devoted lovers and nostalgic loners to tell the album’s stories. West Texas skylines and the people who dot them are captured in “Open Road,” which PopMatters called “a picturesque Americana track." The exhilaration and possibility of young love is punctuated by toe-tapping keys and crisp cymbal crashes on “24 Hours in New York City,” which premiered with American Songwriter. The Boot premiered moody “Cream and Sugar,” chronicling an unexpected spark. Walt Wilkins’ “Walnut Street” closes the album, and marks Kennedy’s first-ever inclusion of a cover on one of his albums.

Kennedy regularly finds himself at the same intersection, contemplating the selfishness of being a musician while wanting to remain a selfless father and husband. He’s often doing what he loves while who he loves most is 1,000 miles away. There is no doubt his family’s influence is weaved into the fabric of At Home In The Big Lonesome, along with that same conflict. In the middle of the first day of recording in Nashville, Kennedy’s wife Holly went into labor with their second child at just seven months pregnant. He made it home to help welcome his son into the world, but complications arose that required a 37-day stay in a Level IV NICU. The songs felt different then.

“We had to change quite a bit of our game plan for what was to become the record that will forever be exactly as old as Oliver because, quite simply, a life ended up changing what this record would become.”