Hopkins Media Services LLC
Studio and Location Recording, Concert Production, Web Streaming Services It's your job to make music in the moment, it's our job to make that moment last.
The result of combining a great tune and great performers with an inspiring performance space and a quality recording is what motivates us to do our best work. Recording music is about more than just microphones and mixers, it is time travel... it provides the ability to relive an inspired performance over and over again, and delivers the music to generations of listeners. It is an elegant combina
24/03/2024
We had a great run of 81 middle and high school band and orchestra recordings in the month of March, serving thousands of students in East Tennessee by recording their performances during the 2024 East Tennessee School Band & Orchestra Association Concert Performance Assessments. Students are critiqued by three judges stationed in the hall, who have copies of the scores and provide feedback about the ex*****on in real time.
We captured the adjudicators comments and the students’ exhibitions with classical large ensemble recording techniques, esoteric equipment, redundancy in the recording chain, and even a battery backup to ensure nothing was missed! We delivered a package of audio files to each director for their review, and for distribution among the students, and we are swooning over what we captured! Their performances were absolutely astounding!
We are honored to have experienced their music from what we feel is the best seat in the house - under headphones! (But that’s what we do) 🎶🎧
09/09/2023
TONIGHT!! We have such a great program lined up for you! Don has a 7 piece band of some really great musicians joining him out of Meridian MS and Chattanooga TN, including the nephew of Jimme Rodgers, Rick McWilliams! Guaranteed to scratch your classic country and western itch, and only a lousy ten bucks! You can’t even feed and water your horse for that anymore. We'll bring the pickin', you bring the grinning at the Ringgold Depot Opry!
15/04/2023
Another orchestral concert recording at Covenant College, this time with choir!
17/03/2023
Now that’s a nicely dressed Decca tree! Ready for orchestral capture!
28/02/2023
The Sunday morning spaceship!
20/02/2023
So much fun mixing a big band! This is a live headphone mix, while pulling double duty operating house sound and camera switching!
Ringgold Depot Opry LIVE - Sweet Georgia Sound Every Second Saturday the RDO is presented from the historic train depot in downtown Ringgold, GA. Support for this concert series by Graham Family Dental, H...
16/05/2022
What a pleasure to work with these fine folks at the Chattanooga Monday Night Big Band!
If you were at the sold out big band opry show saturday, how about Paige Denton's voice? Wow! We definitely caught a touch of her love 💕Show her some love in the comments, catch a replay of the live stream here, and like and subscribe for more!
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Nothin’ Like Ringgold
28/02/2022
HMS is music driven, but we are technology experts too, and when your music intersects with tech needs, give us a call! Here’s a pair of 75” screens we just installed for Apison UMC. We did it in a way that respects the classic architecture, but provides a modern worship technology experience for the congregation, replacing a dated and visually obtrusive 4:3 projection screen.
31/12/2021
End the year strong with some useful reverb impulse responses. Grab my acclaimed pack of hundreds of analog, digital, and acoustic reverb signatures.
EMT140, AKG BX20, Ecoplate, Lexicon, Yamaha, Concert Hall, Studio B, Concrete Tunnel, Stairwells, and so much more, Free. More than 20,000 downloads to date. Creative Commons Attribution-Any.
➡️ http://bit.ly/hopkinsIR
MTSU Impulse Response Library - YouTube Created by Greg Hopkins, 2012 Candidate for B.S. Liberal Studies, Middle Tennessee State University. The MTSU Impulse Response Library features over 220 un...
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Our (very) large analog plate reverb is freshly tuned and serviced and singing like a bell. When you push the faders up it's like your head is wrapped in a big, fluffy, 8 foot steel blanket. Ok, maybe the word imagery isn't on point, but the stereo image sure is. Send me a mono stem or track before the end of the year, and I'll make it stereo. Freebie! Naturally, you'll want it on your whole record, though 😁 -Greg
Chillin with on a studio Saturday. Her favorite spot to lay is near the EMT plate reverb, with her butt touching the lid...
MTSU Impulse Response Library - YouTube
New reverb impulse responses coming soon! All 100% unique and crafted from responses of actual spaces, like this one from Greg's 2012 University Project! Have a listen with headphones, this video links right to the good part when we turn up the verb on Steely Dan, with an impulse made from the capture of a stairwell.
Enjoy the hundreds of Hopkins Impulse Response files already available for free, including analog mechanical reverb devices like our very dark EMT140 plate reverb, The venerable stainless steel Ecoplate, a classic AKG BX20E spring Reverb, and others.
Like our page to stick around for the new stuff!
Downloads here via Dropbox:
http://bit.ly/hopkinsIR
Created by Greg Hopkins, 2012 Candidate for B.S. Liberal Studies, Middle Tennessee State University. The MTSU Impulse Response Library features over 220 un...
TED-Ed
Champion music in schools with your local department of education. Encourage private music lessons, and tolerate the poor playing coming from the bedroom or basement (it gets better 😎).
A look at the neurological wonders behind playing a musical instrument: http://ow.ly/SDkts
Mike & The Mechanics - Silent Running
Every great band needs a quality live recording, don't ya think? Here's one that's in my playlist. - Greg
Live Performance
How Shazam Works To Identify (Nearly) Every Song You Throw At It
gizmodo.com Many of us are prone to using the Shazam music-identification service whenever we encounter unfamiliar songs. After all, it's just so easy to whip out our phones, open an app, and know everything about a mystery song in seconds. But how does Shazam gives us all this information so quickly?
Alesis ADAT XT
The early days of our mobile concert recording rig! These Alesis ADAT XT units recorded 8 channels of 16 bit digital audio to each of three Super VHS tapes. We used them as back up recorders, and boy were they HEAVY! Tapes had to be changed about every thirty minutes. Recording start was delayed by a few seconds on each of the slave decks as they sync'd to the master.
youtube.com Alesis ADAT XT in action. No audio, but you can still see the slave decks chase the master. I show how to check head hours, and demonstrate why we love DAWs,...
Audio Engineering Society
The science of sound! I'm big into impulse responses for replicating acoustic spaces, but this is extreme! 40.3 surround in an anechoic chamber. Woah. - Greg
In the search to accurately reproduce the acoustics of any environment ranging from a car to a concert hall...
The royalty ecosystem. Get it?
Green Dolphin Street - Rhodes Mark I 1975, improvisation
The beauty of a Rhodes piano is too often overlooked in today's modern music. Enjoy this bit of solo improv playing of the great "Green Dolphin Street"
Rhodes Mark I 1975, improvisation
If you are looking for the Hopkins Impulse Responses, including our EMT 140 impulses, and found this page by following a link to our website, please pardon our mess while we move our site to a new server! Impulse responses are here: http://bit.ly/hopkinsIR
Please observe Creative Commons Attibution-Any license for these. Enjoy!
MantraMantraMantra
V-Day freebie for ya! Mastered by HMS.
A brand new track "(1+1)-1=(-1) or THE POET" 4 U to share with ur beloved Valentine. Lonely hearts welcome.
Taking delivery of a '64 hammond a100 tube organ today! Woot woot!
Jocelyn Arndt To Record Live At Sugar's Rib March 20 - Chattanoogan.com
Put this one on your schedule!
chattanoogan.com Recording “LIVE” on… March 20th. Chattanooga Live Music welcomes the return of New York recording artist Jocelyn Arndt and her band to Sugar's Ribs downtown. Chattanooga's singer/songwriter and recording artist Jordan Hallquist will open the event. Also, just confirmed Webb Barringer, singer/songwri…
Admittedly, this page is not utilized as well as it could be, but we're still your number one call for independent live record production. Here is our backstage dual redundant rig in action!
We CANNOT WAIT for The Deep Fried Five show at The High Watt in Nashville on the 28th! This band brings some serious Funk and Soul to the stage, and we're recording audio for their live video shoot! You won't want to miss this one!
Wedding sound!
Deep Machine Encore Jam at The Boro
From a live streaming webcast we did at The Boro Bar and Grill near Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). Deep Machine finished the set and the crowd demanded an encore... So they gave them a spontaneous Jam!
I've got a woman - Ray Charles live at Olympia
One of the greatest performers of all time.
"I've got a woman" by Ray Charles live at the Olympia of Paris. Recorded on the 22nd of November 2000.
Chattanooga rocks.