Audio / Acoustic Engineer

Bradley T. Murphree

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Rochester Hills MI, 48306

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Education: Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

Bachelors of Science in Mass Communication

Major: Audio Engineering, Production and Technology

Minor: Military Science

Overall GPA: 3.2 Major GPA: 3.5

Graduation: May 2007

Notre Dame Preparatory, Pontiac, MI

Graduated June 2003: High School Diploma (29 Credits)

Extra Curricular Activities: Varsity Cross Country – Three Years, Track – One Year

Experience: United States Army September 2004 – 2008

Release Date: 2008

ROTC program that resulted in being Commissioned as an Officer in the U.S. Army as The Distinguished Military Graduate in May 2007.

Most recently Served as a Signal Corps Officer. Responsibilities included: working on Computer networks using Cisco switches and servers in the IT department, and operated professional Audio and Video recordings. Received certification to teach various classes according to Military standards. While in the Army I became proficient in both TurboCAD and Pro Engineer Computer Animated Design programs. Additional proficiency in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project, Visio and Front Page on a regular basis.

Hired as an Audio Engineer on music row at Audio Productions. Big name stars I’ve engineered for at Audio Productions, Martina McBride, Carrie Underwood, Jewel, Alan Jackson, Natalie Grant, James Otto, Montgumery Gentry, Barry Scott, and Julianne Hough. Corporations I’ve worked for as an audio engineer include, Country Countdown USA, ESPN, ABC, XM Radio, Fox News, Fox Business Channel, Curb Records, Sony BMG, Create Advertising Group, Universal, New Line Cinema, Warner Brothers Sound Stage, and Arista Records. Mastering Engineer for such Artists as: Charlie Murphy, Deanna Tossoni, Look Out Gabe, and too many more to mention. Engineered over 100 albums and thousands of songs.

During the last three years of college, worked Freelance on several projects including: striping digital timecode to analog tape to create Digital Master Multitrack sessions for different labels throughout Nashville. Digital Multitrack sessions that I have include sessions from the Doobie Brothers, Queen, Def Leppard, Nine Inch Nails and Radio Head.

Additional experience included working on over 30 short films as a Post Production Audio Engineer. These videos included multiple video and audio file formats. I worked with a variety of different types of Lossy and Lossless video compression formats depending on the delivery requirements.

Started Murphree and Oeltmann Forensic Audio Specialists Company. Hired by the Nashville Local Polce, FBI, and local criminal lawyers to perform speech recognition, acoustical gunshot analysis, and Audio to Video Authentication.

Experience: Murph Productions 1999 - Present

Position: Owner - Recording Studio. My job consisted of recording various bands in southeast Michigan utilizing Pro Tools HD, Logic, Digital Performer, Sonar, Cubase, Compressor, Waveburner, Reason and the following Equipment:

Microphones:

Neumann M147 Neumann KM 184’s AKG C414 AKG D112

Audix D6 Audix D2 DPA 4007 Sennheiser MD 421’s

SM57’s KSM 44 KSM 32 SM98

Beta 98 D/S Beta 56 DPA 4006 BLUE Bottle with capsule set

Hardware:

Apogee AD16X w/ DigiHD card installed Apogee DA16X w/ DigiHD card installed.

Focusrite Red 1 Mic preamp Apogee Rosetta 200

True Systems Precision 8 Mic Preamp Focusrite Octopre w/ Digital ADAT card

Digitech DSP 2101 Tube Guitar Processor Alesis Masterlink

Lacie Big disks (250 GB each) Firewire 800 ADL 600

API Lunchbox with 8 X Pre amps Manley Vairable-MU Compressor

SSL Alpha Link Mic Pre/EQ/Limiter

Ability to program an aggregated device to sync’ all audio components on a mac based system which allows the user to use any and all audio interfaces in conjunction with one another at the same time.

Software: Pro Tools AutoTune 4 Vocalign

Sound Replacer Final Cut Pro Bomb Factory

DINR noise reduction Bomb Factory Compressors Altiverb 5

Pultec EQ series Moogerfooger effects Maxim MCDSP Analog Ch. Sample Tank 2 XL Sadie

Cubase Logic WaveLab

Vegas Movie Studio ArcSoft Showbiz Avid DS Nitris

Compressor Wave Burner Sonar

Conrtol Room and recording area acoustically treated by a mix of Auralex T’Fusors and 2” and 3” Foam Wedges as well as VENUS and LENRD Bass Traps. Capable of performing acoustical analysis of rooms using TurboCAD as well as a DEW FFT Analyzer for frequency analysis of the room.

Equipment utilized in the MTSU Recording Studios:

Digital Mixing System - Studer D-950 Digital Console, 24 I/O strips, 96x96 DI/O, 72x72 AI/O. Solid State Logic 4000G studio mixing console with Total Recall, 32 inputs.

Analog Mixing System - Otari Series 54, 36 I/Os, Digital Creations Diskmix III Moving Fader Automation.

Monitor Systems - Discrete Research/Coastal Acoustics/Boxer 5.1 monitor system, PMC/Bryston 5.1 monitor system, Yamaha NS-10, & Urei 813 speakers, Bryston, Hafler & Yamaha power amplifiers, Hafler P500 Power Amps, Klark Teknik 300B EQ, Dorrough 40 Meters. /Bryston power amplifiers, Mackie HR824 nearfield monitors, Martin Sound MultiMax controller.

Mixing Systems: Surround Systems - Full 5.1 monitoring systems and Dolby SEU4 Surround Sound Encoder, Dolby SDU4 Surround Sound Decoder, Technics SH-AC500D Dolby Digital & DTS decoder.

Digital Recorders - Studer D-827 DASH 24 track recorder with sound memory card, Tascam DA-98/DA-78, DTRS machines, Tascam DA-45 HR, & Sony PCM-7010 DATs, Tascam CD-RW5000 CDR. ony 3324S DASH 24 track recorder with sound memory card, Tascam DA-98, DTRS machine. ProTools HD with 192 and SSL MADI Interfaces. Also SSL A/D and D/A Converters.

Analog Recorders - Studer A-827 24 track recorder,, Sony APR-24 24 track recorder, Otari MX-55 TC w/ Dolby 363SR N/R, Sony TC-K717ES Cassette. Otari Series 54, 36 I/Os, Digital Creations Diskmix III Moving Fader Automation.

Sync Systems - Studer Machine control. Lynx II/Lynx synchronizers used to sync analog 2 inch tape with a digital master.

DAW/MIDI System - Macintosh G5, 22" cinema display, hosting Pro Tools HD and Digital Performer. Pro Tools HD3 Plug-ins include: Antares Autotune, SynchroArts Vocalign, Focusrite D2, Red EQ, Waves TDM, Lexicon Lexiverb, Line 6 Amp Farm.

Hardware: Digidesign 192 and 96/ Digidesign 888|24 audio interface (3), MOTU MIDI Time Piece AV & II, Yamaha W5, AKAI S1000, Kurzweil K2500RS, Roland JV-1080, Alesis D4.

Outboard Processing - Millenia HV-3D, Millenia Origin, TubeTech MP-1A, Yamaha Pro R3, SPX 90, REV 7, YDD 2600, TC Electronics TC6000, Sony R201, Publison Infernal Machine 90, Eventide DSP 4500, Klark Teknik DN 410, Ensoinq DP/4+, DBX 160 (2), Empirical Labs Distressor (2), Aphex Dominator II, TubeTech CL 2A, GML 8200 EQ.

Musical Instruments - Kawai 7' grand piano, Yamaha CP70 electric piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, Hammond B3 with Leslie 122, Pearl Master Series Drum kit w/ Zildjian Cymbals, Fender Bassman amp.

Microphones - Neumann M147, TLM 170, TLM 103, & KM 140; Schoeps CMC 5U; AKG C414 TL II, 460, & D12E; Yamaha MZ 204; Sennheiser MD421, MKH40, E602, & E604; Shure SM 98, SM 57, SM 81, & SM 98; Sony DC-MS5, Audiotechnica ATM4033, Realistic PZM, Countryman, & Whirlwind DI Boxes.

Video Editing Equipment: Final Cut Pro and Disk Maker Duplicators.

Extra Curricular Activities During College:

Completed NASA SATS Aerospace Flight Program – I was one of the first pilots to test and do research on the state of the art Garmin 1000 flight computer in a full glass cockpit DA-40. Received Private Pilot and Instrument licenses in one college semester.

Ranger Challenge – Participated three years in intercollegiate events with MTSU securing third place once and Second Place at Fort Jackson two years in a row, Co-Captain senior year.

ROTC – Coordinated FTX (Field Training Exercise) weekends. Ran Rappel Towers, Instructed Hand to Hand Combat classes, Also Operated as an S-5 (Staff Officer) where the main goals were to present a Professional image by synchronizing music using digital timecode to movies of high speed army training. Utilized professional audio for a multitude of projects.

Airborne Qualified – 3.5 week training course with the United States Army jumping out of a variety of different airplanes at 1250 feet with full combat gear.

Leadership Development Advanced Course – 32 Day training course with the United States Army in which I was evaluated on my skills as an Army Officer. While being evaluated I received the Recondo award which was given out to the top 2% of the class.

Leadership Development Advanced Course as Cadre – 32 day training course as an operations officer. My duties were to instruct and evaluate over 412 college students and their potential in becoming an Army Officer. I taught a couple different classes on different audio techniques. I wrote and presented over 100 Operations Orders which consisted of movement to, equipment, time management, mission, training of, safety, and movement back to our area of operations for all 412 students.

References and CAD Drawings can be furnished upon request

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