DAY 1

okay my first day at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was a little nerve racking at first. I didn't really know where to park so I just parked in the great lakes science center parking garage and walked to the rock hall from there. My sponsor told me to go through the back entrance of the Rock Hall where all the other employees entered and i had to be buzzed in by there security which was tight. Then i went to their administrative offices where i was introduced to all the employees at the Rock Hall from the CEO/president to the one of the people working in the tech dept. who ive been shadowing Brett Friedman. Then i got my own id badge which works as a key throughout all of the rock hall: security, administrative, etc. That was pretty sweet. Then I sat in on one of the Rock Hall's Rock The Schools classes which uses a soundboard, specifically a digico sd8. That's where I met Connor's uncle Ron Mussara he was working the board which was cool even though nothing much was happening during the class besides an occasional recording demo. It was cool seeing the equipment though which Ron later gave me more of an intro to.

DAY 4

Similar to day one but know that I had purchased a parking pass to the cleveland port parking it was easier to get to and from the rock hall. Also it was not as awkward because by today I had a lot more familiar faces to go by as well as I had begun to know my way around the Rock Hall. The basement had the main exhibit and all the offices, the second floor has the gift shop, the 3rd has the cafe and actual hall of fame, the fourth floor has the theater where they show u2 3d and hold the rock the school classes and the 5th and 6th floors are dedicated to there thematic exhibit which is now the newly opened Women who Rock exhibit. I basically did the same thing as day 1 sat in on the class and learned about the sd8.

Day5

Today I got my own desk next to Brett Friedman in tech. support. I also got my own computor which has been dedicated to ripping cd's into the rockhall archives/database for future reference/use in exhibits to come. I have becom the master of ripping. Ive had to rip, label, organize, and notate through audiograbber, excel and some other program i dont know. After I ripped a bunch of cds I sat in on the class again and worked on the board a bit which was cool. Then I helped set up for a concert that would soon take place today. I worked with Ron Mussara again and some other guys from eighth day sound and they were all pretty cool. We finished setting the medium sized stage on the second level in less then 2 hours and was sound checking after 2.5 hours. This time they were working on a yamaha board which was simpler than the digico and more accessble. the problem with the digico is that its all digital which means there are not as many manual controls and lots of digital "layers" of sound control that one could get lost in if not careful. THe engineers were more at home with this older piece of equipment because of its sheer simplicity.

to be continueeed......