John Schmidt
Audio/Video Systems
Design and Consultation
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Welcome to my website.  Please come back often as I continue to update it.

If you need assistance with an audio and or video project or problem, I may be able to provide the services you need.  I have been involved in this field for over 50 years.

I am now in a position to provide a wide range of services as a consultant:

  • Audio and/or video systems design or design consultation.
  • Radio station technical design and consultation, Chief Engineer.
  • Troubleshooting and correcting audio, video or RF problems.
  • Commissioning and setting up new or revised audio and video systems.
  • Training in operation and maintenance of audio, video, or radio equipment and facilities.
  • Small to medium scale location recording sessions, and post-production for a finished product.
  • Transfer from VHS, Beta, reel-to-reel tape, cassette, minidisc, DAT, F1, DA88 or phonograph records to digital files. That may include moderate scale audio restoration following the transfer.
  • Format conversion of digital audio files.
  • Consultation and assistance on setting up both professional and consumer digital audio storage and playback systems.
  • And other projects of a similar nature.

While my involvement in this field began in the days of analog audio and video, my experience at ABC continued into the modern era with systems using:

  • AES and MADI audio transmission.
  • SDI video with embedded audio.
  • TDM audio and video systems.
  • Storage and playout systems for both digital audio and video.
  • File-based and streaming digital audio and video.
  • Fiber optic transmission of audio, video and data.
  • Digital audio editing systems, including ProTools, Wavelab and Sound Forge, as well as proprietary editors installed with various manufacturer’s equipment.

For 36 years, I was employed as a senior audio/video systems engineer by the ABC television network, until my retirement in 2013. While I was particularly known for my audio systems designs, I also was responsible for several major video projects, including the design and implementation of the reference video pulse system currently in use at ABC New York.

For a description of the advances in technology that I have experienced and a list of some of the major projects at ABC I was responsible for click here.

Prior to my employment at ABC, I was the Chief Engineer or Assistant Chief Engineer of several radio stations at various times (including WLIR and WBAI) and at a recording studio. For many years before and during my employment at ABC, I was the volunteer technical director of WBAU, a radio station formerly at Adelphi University. I also have considerable experience in location audio recording, and audio media transfer and restoration. 

At this time I am the contract Chief Engineer of WRLI, a public radio station in Southampton, NY.

To read my complete resume click here.

In the meantime, you can look at my steelpan website www.panjumbie.com.  There is a section there on field recording of steelpan, otherwise known as steel drums.

 

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