Liingh Khalsa
Liv Singh Khalsa
Specializing in product development, advertising, audio, video, graphic design and web design.
602-277-2999
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Strengths:
* A organized and committed creative professional.
* A broad knowledge of creating media as a product and advertising from concept to completion.
* Skilled in cultivating positive relationships with clients and colleagues.
* Lifetime love of expressing and giving the experience of inner spirit through media.
* Known for enthusiasm, persistence, follow-through and fostering collaborative relationships.
* Getting the magic out of people in the studio or on the camera.
* Self motivated and can work with group or alone.
* Can bring together and manage artists to complete projects within a time line and budget.
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Profile:
* Produced, arranged and recorded and marketed over 70 music albums.
* Marketed albums using print, e-mail, direct mail, radio, in-store promotions and trade conventions.
* Produced, and recorded three complete and professional Videos for the Hawaiian album titled “One in the Goddess” in only 30 days on a shoe string budget. Created 20 Videos for clients and Invincible Music which can be viewed at Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/invinciblemusic. Singh Kaur’s Guru Ram Das video has been viewed by over 150,000 people.
* Designed and implemented Invinciblemusic.com website which attracts over 400 customers a day using SEO pages as the main marketing tool.
* Created books covers, magazine adds, corporate learning videos, logos, and CD booklets for clients with many styles giving then more then they expected within their budget.
* Designed multimedia websites for clients with photos, video and audio which can be seen at: http://estunbahmusic.com/, http://tonyredhouse.net/, and http://gurukirn.com/.
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Employment:
Radio Show Development and On Location Recording Engineer 1967 - 1970
Salamander Sound (High School)
I created a radio series play on Phoenix radio station KDKB called “It’s a Hassle” which included live recordings of local bands, interviews with unusual business owners and avant-garde sound collages.
Lithography Film Striper and Darkroom 1971 - 1972
State of Arizona
My job included film developing, striping, and graphic art layout.
Home remodeling 1973 - 1982
Nanaks Carpentry
I specialized in tile laying with a secondary role as finished carpentry assistant.
Invincible Recording 1983 - 2008
Recording Engineer, Graphic Designer, Web Design, Photographer. Pre and Post Production Video, Advertising.
Invincible Recordings is a independent record label which I started in 1983 which now has over 70 albums most of which I recorded, created their album artwork, then launching artist promotional campaigns through radio, print, and web. My accomplishments for the label and clients includes: Graphic arts for CD covers, posters, magazine, adds, post cards and catalogs. Web design and creation including HTML, Flash movies, Quicktime movies, Realaudio, downloadable music, shopping carts using Miva Merchant and its many plug-ins. Audio recording including tracking, mixing, mastering, arranging and producing. Digital Video pre and post production including story boards, on location filming, digital film editing, digital special effects, digital graphics, DVD menus. Still photography with film and digital cameras for advertising, artist presentations, web design, and video still imaging. Advertising campaigns including printed media (reviews and adds), e-mail, radio and trade conventions.
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Education:
AA Degree
Phoenix College 1969 - 1972
Lithography and Graphics arts
Maricopa Tech University 1971 - 1972
Photography lighting, composition and style. Apprenticeship with
Paul Loven, National Geographic photographer 1983 - 1992
Total Training, Adobe Creative Suite Steve Holmes 2000 - 2001
Lynda.com Online Training 2008 - 2008
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Graphic Art Skills: Graphic arts for CD covers, posters, magazine adds, post cards and catalogs using Adobe CS Photoshop, Adobe CS InDesign, Adobe CS Acrobat and Canon Digital and Analog EOS Cameras.
Website Skills: Strong in creating a search engine optimized site theme through page layout, color and images. I have created web sites using HTML web pages, Miva Merchant shopping carts, web movies, flash product profiles, saleable digital downloadable files. Software of choice are Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash Video, Realaudio, Realvideo, and Quicktime.
Recording Skills: Play Guitar, Keyboards, Digital Drums and create Midi Arrangements of many styles. Audio recording skills including tracking, mixing, mastering, arranging and producing.
Recorded and Produced: Bruce Walker with Dream Works Records, Bizzy Bone, Chris Ray, DMX, Dev Suroop Kaur, Ken Mari with Alice Cooper and House of Lords, Michael Dunlap with the Commodores, Zakir Hussan of the Maha Vishnu Orchestra, Jim Scott with Paul Winter Consort, Antion Vikram with Eric Burdon & the Animals, Ron Feurer with Diana Ross and the Fifth Dimension, Steve Kujala with Chick Corea, Jordan Rudess with Dixie Dregs and Dream Theatre, Kim Robertson, Singh Kaur, Snatam Kaur and Lester Chambers with the Chambers Brothers.
Audio Software: Motu Digital Performer, Apple Soundtrack Pro 2, Waves Gold Plus Suite, Spectrosonics Stylus RMX, Symphonic Instruments, Trilogy, Atmosphere, T.C. Powercore Platform, Bias Peak, Roxio Jam, and Motu Mach Five.
Home Audio Studio (Sound proof room with hard wood walls and vaulted ceiling) gear includes:
Trident 36X24 mixing console - Tannoy Monitors - 550 Point Balanced Patch Bay - 24 Channels Motu 1224 24 Bit Digital Recording - Drammer 1960 Mic Pre-amp/Compressor - API 3124 Mic Preamp - Studio Technologies Mic Pre Eminence - Aphex Expressor Compressors - DBX 163X & 166 Compressors - Roland R-880 Quad Digital Reverb - Lexicon PMC-60 & 70 Reverb - Eventide H3000SE Ultra Harmonizer - Studio Tech AN-2 Stereo Simulator - Aphex 612 Gates - TC 2240 Parametric Equalizers - Waves Software - Mac 8 core Pro Tower, Mac G5 and G4.
Mics include: 3 AKG 414 - 6 Sennheiser MD740 - 1 Beyer MC740 - 1 Neumann TLM 103 - 2 Shure SM57
Keyboards include: Yamaha 802 - Roland XV-5080, JP8000 - Korg Karma
Video Skills: Digital Video pre and post production including story boards, on location filming, digital film editing, digital special effects, digital graphics and DVD menus. Software includes Apple Final Cut 6, Motion 6, Soundtrack Pro 2, Color, DVD Studio Pro 4 and Compressor 3 run on the all new Mac Pro Tower 8 Core with 2 - 23 inch Cinema Displays, Firmtek 4 Terabyte Raid, and Sony reference monitor. Secondary rendering computers include a Mac G5 2 GHz dual processor and additional G4s.
Video Graphics Skills: My love for capturing the unseen has motivated the learning of two video graphic programs. Bryce, which creates beautiful 3D nature scenes and Artmatic which creates abstract and visually stunning designs and mandalas. Both these programs have been used to create many hours of stock video footage for use as backgrounds for projects.
Still Photography Skills: I have extensive experience photographing artists, products and nature using a Canon EOS Elan II, Canon EOS 30D Digital SLR and Nikon Coolscan 5000 film scanner.
Manufacturing Skills: I have set up and maintained CD/DVD short run manufacturing systems implementing Epson printers with high volume ink feeding systems for creating CD/DVD booklets with Digital Scribe and Rimage for CD/DVD pressing capabilities.
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All images and sounds owned copyright and published 2008 Liv Singh Khalsa
