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Brook's ProfileLucid Recording Sciences is a small company headed by me, Brook Burson, a lifelong audiophile, musician, and electrical engineer. By day, I'm a full-time electrical engineer working for General Dynamics designing systems, software, and hardware. But by night, I turn into a music and technology loving audio nut whose passion is making and listening to great music. In order to vent some of this passion, I've taken on many hobbies and part-time businesses over the years. In college I worked at the local high-end stereo store, and developed a keen ear for sound quality. As an engineering student working part-time, I was involved in not only listening to and selling the equipment, but I was heavily involved in setting up, tweaking, and modifying equipment to get the last little bit of performance out of it. During this time, my audiophile buddies and I would dream about starting an audiophile record company that would make great recordings that would match or surpass some of the best recorded acoustic albums of the day. Ah, dreams . . . After receiving my master's degree in Electrical Engineering, I moved to Arizona and began working for Motorola. However, at night I was going through music and high-end audio withdrawals, so my alter-ego kicked in and I thought it would be fun to start my own part-time stereo business selling high-end equipment here in Arizona. And so I did. Sound Alternatives was born, and I sold some of the best sounding equipment available in those days in the niche market of High-End audio. For 10 years, I got to play with, tweak, listen to, sell, modify, install, and enjoy some of the worlds best stereo equipment and listen to some of the worlds best recordings. I got a chance to further train my ears so that I knew when things sounded right. I studied acoustics, and worked to modify the acoustics of listening spaces to optimize them for the best sound. For those of you who aren't audiophiles, you just don't know how good some of this High-End stereo stuff can sound. We're talking $10,000 to $30,000 stereo systems here that sound INCREDIBLE! Yes, it may seem crazy to some of you to spend that much on a stereo, but most of us have a passion of some kind and we put a lot of money into it. Your passion may not be audio, as mine is, but I bet you put a lot of money into something: your house, your car, your furniture, your vacations, your boat, your coin collection, your kids education, etc. We all have passions. Mine is audio and music. After about 10 years, it became time for a change. So I decided to take a break from selling stereo equipment, and took on the hobby of making music. I'd had 7 years of piano lessons in school, but hadn't played much in a while. So I bought a grand piano and started playing again. And I decided to take on singing in a chorus and joined the Grand Canyon Men's Chorale. I sang with them for 8 years, and learned an awful lot about live, unamplified sound in that time. In 1999, that old dream came back to me. I wanted to make some incredible sounding recordings that would make other audiophiles get down on their knees and praise my talents. Of course, I hadn't actually developed my recording talents at the time, but I had laid a lot of ground work, what with the engineering degree, piano and chorus experience, and the high-end audio and acoustics experience. I've been working on developing the talent ever since. I started Lucid Recording Sciences as a hobby side-business, and started recording the Grand Canyon Men's Chorale and other area choruses. With each new CD I made, I learned an awful lot. But I still haven't had anyone on their knees praising my talents. However, I have had some praise from actual standing and sitting people, so I'm on my way. . . In the 5 years I've had with Lucid Recording Sciences, I've produced many, many location recordings and CDs. I've recorded The Grand Canyon Men's Chorale, Arizona Women in Tune, Men of the Phoenix Bach Choir, The Orpheus Male Chorus, Men of the Phoenix Boys Choir, The Fountain Hills Community Chorus, Arizona School for the Arts Men's Choir, Nosotros, Sparks, and many others. I've made recordings in many excellent acoustic spaces including Trinity Cathedral, Brophy Chapel, First United Methodist on Central, St. Francis Xavier, ASU's Katzen Hall, All Saints Episcopal, Chaparal Christian Church, and many others. I've also recorded in some venues that were wonderful in non-acoustic ways: the Herberger and the Orpheum. Now its 2005, and I've just produced my third recording of the year with many more exciting recordings planned for later this year. As time moves forward, I will continue to feed my passions, and in the process I hope to make lots of beautiful music with some of Arizona's artists. If you or your group are interested in this as well, please give me a call or drop an email. Let's see where we can take this. . . |
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