Week Thirty-Five CAAAAALM DOWWN!
Well, it is a bank holiday week and the number of peak Summer events that have just been ‘˜mud bathed’ has been huge! Yet the car cruise culture continues to surge and have folks who love it, even if they are richer and thus fewer than in recent years, so life goes on.
Most of the posh folks in my town have been away on holiday, but we didn’t, sadly. However, a city break in Liverpool is about to be our weekend as I am due at The Bluecoat on Saturday next, to deliver a talk.. about well, here’s the web page promoting it: link
Which is just to show off, as all it says is, ‘Legendary car audio specialist, sound engineer and online editor for Talk Audio magazine muses on modified cars, contemporary art and the extremes of sound’ And they wanted a press release biog, so wrote the following.
Adam Rayner, with a past in the music business’ hardware end, first as human forklift truck ‘roadie’ for live gigs up to stadium-sized and then as sound engineer, has a lifetime of passion for SOUND to communicate on Saturday 31st August at the Bluecoat.
For the audio hardware reviewer you might know him as, will get lost in the music if it is clear and potent enough. Even moved to tears… and it all goes down on the page.
For sound is elemental and music is inherent in the human psyche.
Getting an artist’s musical work to you, unsullied by the means of transmission is crucial, as is the musician and composers’ permission to perform and impress by being given the tools to do so, with instruments as well as the reproduction stuff we call ‘sound systems’ that are up to the job.
And as well as the finest audio in the world, the sounds of power grip his soul.
From being within a hundred yards of a lightning strike, to the basso roar of Niagara or the geothermal vent outside Reykjavik, let alone volcanics or Siberian meteors, Rayner is obsessed. This translates as ‘extreme audio’.
The UK’s reviewer of choice for the most absurd bass speakers for home use in cinemas up to a million pounds seen and reviewed.
Able to judge by feel, to within two decibels, sound pressures to 160dB in bass cars.
And at the Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool on 31st August at 2pm, he will attempt to explain the biggest question of all, WHY? Come along and at least he will teach you how to talk to your friends in a night club without hurting their ears, even if you are on the floor in front of the speakers…that and a little patriarchal hearing health advice at the end…for the sane ones!
Still got a backlog of hardware and some cars to writehow about the Vibe hearse? I am convinced it’ll do 160’s
Adam Rayner On Line Editor