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Expert Profile: Robert Drake

Expertise: Most audio questions regarding performance and high end, professional recording/mastering, commercial and residential audio. Recording engineer, musician, mastering engineer and owner of well established media company servicing professionals. No Car Audio Questions Please!.

Experience in the area
30 years own and operate sound design and installation business for museums, hotels, restaurants, spas, boutiques, homes. Aligned with world renown acoustician's and musicians. 10 years prior music producer engineer and maintenance engineer. Gold & platinum records. Recording and maintenance studio experience. Formal training in A/V. Current experience in systems integration. Have limited time. Will answer broad stroke questions unless they are relatively common knowledge to me. Musician and extensive backround in recorded media dating back to the 20's.

Publications
Spin magazine 1981 to 1989

Education/Credentials
RCA institute graduate V-7 1966

Awards and Honors
Gold & Platinum records. Many letters of recommendation from well know institues & well known individuals

Past/Present Clients
Metropolitan Museum of Art, World Financial Center, NYAC, Ashford & Simpson, Nile Rodgers, We Are Family Foundation, Panasonic broadcast, Geraldo Rivera, Harry Belafonte, more than 50 restaurants and hotels that currently operate in New York, Rome Italy, Philly, Boston, ......

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Something controversial or provocative about this subject You'd have to stand behind me daily to see it.

What do you like about this subject? Always surprises.

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field? I am a teacher. Teachers never stop learning! I learn something interesting all of the time. Someday I'll be interviewed for a book on how much I forgot and didn't think about it until I was asked.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know: There are few people who truly care about what happens to the system you buy after you've bought it.

Average Ratings
Prestige Points: 3820
Knowledge	9.80 Best of the best
Clarity of Response	9.61 Best of the best
Timeliness	9.89 Best of the best
Politeness	9.80 Best of the best
Number Of Questions (in Past 24 Hours)		0
Max Questions to be Asked (in 24 Hour period)		5
Total Questions (since joining AllExperts)		836

Recent Reviews from Users

Knowl	Clarity	Time	Politeness	Date
10	9	10	6	12/01/08
10	10	10	10	11/30/08
10	10	10	10	12/01/08
10	10	10	10	11/28/08
10	10	10	10	11/27/08

User Comments

Thank you so much. Sorry if the question seemed a waste of your time...the manufacturer is so obsure (Curtis) that there was no contact informati
(Brooke on 12/01/08)

Thank you. Al Brown
(Al on 11/30/08)

thanks mucho appreciated
(Louie max on 12/01/08)

Good familiarity with my specific equipment. Knew where to point me for further info and options.
(Joe on 11/28/08)

Very quick response! Thank You
(Terry on 11/27/08)

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Recent Answers from Robert Drake

2008-12-01 record player: Static from a turntable could be caused by anything from dirty vinyl to a poor contact between the head shell and tonearm, poor connection from the RCA connectors to the pre-amp, the ground wire, a stylus...

2008-12-01 amp for multiple speakers with iPod?: You need an amplifier and a impedance matching switch. That's the inexpensive way of doing it. If I were doing it, I would use a multi-channel amplifier one channel per two 8 ohm speakers. If you know...

2008-11-30 vcr recording: That is correct. The TV is not the source it is the termination of A/V signals and would have no affect on any recording. The cable box is the source. If you record from the cable box only control the...

2008-11-30 Feb. 2009: At the moment there seems to be no provision for a purely digital signal to become modulated analog for radio. Once the mandate is met the three providers that will carry television; Cable, the Phone Company...

2008-11-29 CD/VHS/Stereo System: Marilyn, I know this is probably not the answer you want to hear but the simple facts are, all manufacturers phase out serviceable parts for equipment after 5 to 7 years(planned obsolescence). The fact...