Chris McCormack Professions : Triathlete Born : April 4, 1973 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Chris McCormack You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that? Chris McCormack baseball soccer sports Success in the sport is, above all else, about enduring suffering. Chris McCormack endure suffering sports When the pain comes, you know what I do? I smile. Chris McCormack i-smile pain knows What's important is a great set of objective ears, years of experience and a great room with a true sound. Look at this way: If the equipment in a studio is a high performance car, and the mastering engineer is the driver, putting the car on ice and trying to achieve a good lap time is like trying to master music in a bad room, all the equipment in the world wont help you connect with the music and let you hear what's really happening. The room is the environment in which the mix performs to its potential, as the road is to the car. It's hugely important. Chris McCormack car ice years I get a lot of satisfaction from crafting and shaping mixes. I love finding the right balance, the right dynamic. It's an emotional interaction with the music. Chris McCormack balance emotional satisfaction For the nerd in me, I prefer full quality digital files as they give a truer representation of the source mix, the studio in fact. From these files I can quite often tell what kind of set up made the tracks. For the music lover in me, vinyl is more woosey, richer, more alive, more real, more imperfect and somehow becoming more like life itself. But I don't prefer it per se. The mastering engineer in me always loves to hear it as it was made. Chris McCormack track real giving Similar Authors Chrissie Wellington triathlete Gwen Jorgensen triathlete Mirinda Carfrae triathlete Scott Tinley triathlete Timothy O'Donnell triathlete All Authors
