Advanced Audio provides high quality microphones with standard recording and broadcast industry response curves and specifications. Through our 35 years of experience as a recording engineer and recording studio technician we have come to understand the microphone needs of not only major recording studios and broadcasters but the ever growing home studio market. We have used this experience to select and build our microphone models. HISTORY Our tube experience dates back to 1963 as a boy earning an Amateur Radio license. In the fall of 1965 there was a two year tour of duty as an assistant technician at the City of Vancouver’s Audio Visual department. By 1967 providing live sound re-enforcement for Rock Concerts seemed more exciting than fixing tape recorders, microphones and amplifiers. We provided front-line and back-line systems for many legendary acts that played Vancouver like, The Doors, The Jefferson Airplane, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, Sly & the Family Stone, Creedance Clearwater, Three Dog Night, The Yardbirds, Crème and Led Zepplin, 1971 began to show the first signs of Ocean Sound Studios when a home built 8 channel mixer was connected to 4 track tape machine. A handful of microphones were set-up in a work shed and there was a 6’ x10’ tool room commissioned as “control room”. By 1973 two 4 tracks and a 16 channel mixer was set-up in a concrete double car garage in North Vancouver with an 18’ x 12’ control room. A year later came an 8-track 1” Scully that had really wonderful microphone preamplifiers built right into each channel. 1974 brought a 24x8 Soundcraft Mark IV mixer and a 2” 16 track. By 1979 Ocean Sound had acquired its first 24 track Studer and we quickly came to realize that the double car garage was getting too small. In 1980 we completed Ocean Sound on West 2nd which we built from the ground up and it featured a 28’x 22’ main studio, 17’ x 14’ studio “B” plus a large vocal/voice-over booth. The walls in the main room were treated with large swinging panels that could change the acoustics very quickly. There were two matching control rooms 22’x 16’ fitted with brand new Trident Series 80 consoles and Studer 24 tracks. We bought our first Telefunken U47 for $450 and the second one was traded toward a recording session as it needed some repairs and a cable. The U47’s ended up recording K.D. Lang and Roy Orbison singing the duet “Crying”. I also had the opportunity during my tenure at Ocean to work with producers Bob Rock, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, David Foster, Bill Porter, and artists like Bryan Adams, Randy Bachman, K.D. Lang, Paul Horn, D.O.A. Brian McCloud and Terry Jacks plus a steady stream of Vancouver’s best Studio musicians. Over the years during and after our tenure at Ocean we were asked to provide technical assistance and engineer services for over 200 live jazz radio shows, a live television Christmas special with David Foster and Kenny Loggins, live recording services in Vancouver with Neil Young, Country Television special with Chris Hillman (ex Byrds/Desert Rose band) plus we have consulted on many local project studios and recording facilities in the Vancouver area. This included repairing and upgrading microphones.