{"id":18509,"date":"2023-03-31T09:19:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T08:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/?p=18509"},"modified":"2024-01-25T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T15:00:14","slug":"glenn-a-tabor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/glenn-a-tabor\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn A Tabor"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Glenn A Tabor III, Multiple Grammy winning producer and engineer, and owner since 1996 of Gat3 – a multi-room recording facility, video production company, and recording school based in Charlotte in North Carolina. Glenn has worked with thousands of artists, spanning nearly every genre, including funk, jazz, rock, hip-hop, and R&B.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Interview<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Glenn, how would you define your profession?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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My name is Glenn A Tabor III and I am the owner of Gat3 Productions in Charlotte, NC. We are a multimedia facility, housing five recording studios, a Dolby Atmos suite, video editing and sound stages, as well as a recording school for aspiring engineers and artists. I am also a recording and mastering engineer as well as a producer.<\/p>

Producing and recording music is quite an incredible career. It is truly something you spend a lifetime refining and crafting. Working with artists and musicians is always interesting. You become the psychologist – it really requires that to extract the most amazing performances. After all, that is what we all want. Great performances help make great sonics as well. I began defining that as taking an artist through their \u201carc\u201d. Everyone\u2019s arc is different and unique, but there are patterns. I recorded and mixed James Brown\u2019s (The Godfather of Soul) last album and his arc was one take! He had the ability to immediately know what he wanted and deliver it, whereas a new artist who hasn\u2019t had much studio experience may take days or weeks to get through that same arc.<\/p>

Every recording session also has its own atmosphere and vibe. You must quickly realize the pace and feel of the artist and musicians. If they\u2019ve recorded before, I study their body of work. Great communication and intuition are vital. By listening to thousands of great records you basically a mass a catalog in your brain of great sound to pull from. This is why I want a great playback system to listen accurately.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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How critical is audio playback quality in the studios?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Obviously in the recording studios we have an amazing amount of equipment which can essentially be divided into two categories: \u00a0a recording path and a playback path. \u00a0Both of these paths are necessary to make great recordings. \u00a0I place extreme significance on every detail of the playback chain. \u00a0Extreme conversion quality, cabling, power delivery, amplification, speakers, headphones, etc are all vital and work together in a symbiotic way. \u00a0Hearing what we are doing in the recording chain with the microphones and processors is critical. \u00a0One often overlooked component in the studio world is the playback software. \u00a0Many simply reference audio with the built in music players. \u00a0I wanted software that was precise, accurate and simple to use for our engineers, producers and students to analyze audio recordings.<\/div>
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I personally auditioned all of the quality music players made and Audirv\u0101na stood out as sounding the best as well as being simplistic and visually stunning.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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I personally auditioned all of the quality music players made<\/p>

and Audirv\u0101na stood out as sounding the best<\/p>

as well as being simplistic and visually stunning.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Do you still enjoy listening to music at home?\n<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I ALWAYS enjoy listening to music! \u00a0It feeds the soul. \u00a0Leaving the studio, I\u2019ll jam tunes in the car and also at home. \u00a0I have an audiophile system at home for referencing mixes and masters that includes a lot of great things, like Krell, Chord, B&W, Audeze headphones, and of course Audirv\u0101na.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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How long have you been using Audirv\u0101na? What did you think when you discovered it?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I have been using Audirv\u0101na for almost a year now. \u00a0I am so impressed that we are implementing it in all of our student workstations and recording studios. \u00a0It is perfect for listening to mixes and masters in pristine quality. \u00a0It is also great for comparing your work to other masters in various genres.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Do you talk to people about it?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I always share anything that sounds great with others. \u00a0The joy of high quality music playback is an amazing experience and when others hear it, they are amazed!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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What are your passions outside of music?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Music is my livelihood and my passion so it naturally consumes most of my life. \u00a0However, I do enjoy high performance cars and an occasional day driving on a race track – of course while listening to some great music!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Producer and sound engineer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18509"}],"version-history":[{"count":68,"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26556,"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18509\/revisions\/26556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/audirvana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}