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Jack
Wes M
Wes T
Courtney
Noah
Thomas

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Haze was a alternative band based in Athens, OH. 

Haze  - Jinx Me Up

Haze was a alternative band based in Athens, OH.

Haze - Truckstop

This is one track out of four recorded  at Hosanna Masaya Church in Masaya Nicaragua May 2016 in a cultural exchange between Capital University and  the Timothy Music Institute in Nicaragua. The tracks were recorded in the extreme heat of Nicaragua in Garageband and mixed in Logic Pro X in Studio A at Capital University. 

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Ski Instructor

 Using Music to Teach: Research, Writing, Creativity, Production, Entrepreneurship, Troubleshooting, and Copyright

Using a combination of trusted and innovative methods, I teach students the skill most sought after by employers: to communicate. With an emphasis on real world situations, promoting collaboration and engagement, and exposing students to all facets of the audio field, I ensure my students can make an immediate impact and set themselves up for a long career



Neal Schmitt Audio Portfolio - Introduction

Music recording
Concept: Building on a steady stream of increasingly complex assignments students eventually build enough skills and confidence to recruit an artist to record and mix songs using the digital multitrack recording studio. 

Objective: Pre-production, tracking, overdubbing and mixing are all handled by an individual student. However, throughout the process, students must continually communicate and  collaborate with the artist to  eventually achieve the desired outcome.  In class, students further learn to communicate effectively by offering constructive criticism on other students’ projects. 


Neal Schmitt Audio Portfolio - Multitrack Recording

Xander Roseberry of vox, Tim Tuten on bass, William Harris on guitar, & Neal Schmitt on drums. Written as a quick production assignment in Capstone and used as a vocal recording demo in Mixing and Mastering class.
Recorded in Studio A Washington Hall at Hocking College. Fall 2010.

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     Simply logging countless late nights in a recording studio does not qualify me to teach recording, music technology and entrepreneurship.  Add: designing, constructing and co-owning that commercial recording studio; drumming, promoting and managing a touring indie band with numerous national releases; an insatiable appetite for recording gear, social media and aggregating other communication tools;   creating interesting, demanding and relevant student projects; using innovative grading techniques and finally combine all that with formal degrees in audio production and marketing; and you get a lot closer. 

My recording career humbly started in high school when my band convinced a church to allow us the use of their facility for an overnight recording session (to hi-fi 4 track cassette). Even in those modest surroundings, I was hooked.
            Degree in hand, I found employment with an established recording studio in Columbus, OH. And by employment, I mean I had hustle, network and search to find my own clients. While I sharpened both my networking and studio skills, I also engineered live sound at numerous nightclubs and music festivals, provided location audio support for corporate productions and TV commercials and continued to drum and tour with my band Pretty Mighty Mighty.

            Deciding that I wanted to further immerse myself in to the growing Columbus music scene,  I partnered with a longtime band member to open a recording facility. Workbook Studio started humbly in a cramped, rental house but later expanded to a 3,200 sq. ft New York style loft space. (And my expanded I mean that we built the space from scratch.) Workbook Studio was lucky to record hundreds of acts from around the U.S. and was featured in EQ, TapeOp and Mix magazines, Workbook Studio was also proud to host numerous benefit concerts, CD release parties and art openings. The studio was also the setting for two episodes of a  30-minute music television program I produced and hosted called “Workbook”.

           Currently, I am a Coordinating Instructor in the Music Program at Hocking College overseeing two recording studios and a 18 seat Mac Lab. I teach recording technology, music production, live sound, entrepreneurship, booking and new media. I also teach in the Interactive Media Department at Columbus State.

          Most importantly, I teach students to communicate.


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