Chris Lacinak Email & Phone Number

Brooklyn, New York, Us

Founder and President

Los Angeles, California, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Co-developed and taught four classes within the Moving Image Archives and Preservation Program - Digital Preservation - This class follows the lifecycle of a digital moving image and/or sound asset. Beginning with digitization and born digital objects, continuing on to storage and asset management systems, and through migration and reformatting. Current theories and practices for digital preservation are explored through readings and lectures. Students gain practical skills required in the emerging role of the moving image and sound archivist. These skills include identification, working with metadata, data integrity practices, reviewing and interpreting digital objects and their content. Emphasis is placed on the role of the moving image and sound archivist in fulfilling their charge of digital preservation.Video Preservation I & II -The class gives students direct experience with the process of re-formatting legacy video formats for preservation and access. Addressing in-house systems and work with vendors, the class increases knowledge in areas of archival standards, decision-making, technical requirements, preparation and workflow, and overall project management. Students have hands-on experience with video cleaning and re-formatting equipment in the video preservation lab and through collaboration with vendors.Hands-on Introduction to Moving Image and Sound Media - History of technologies, care and handling, identification, assessment, prioritization, inspection, diagnosis, metadata, documentation.Directed Internships - Helping students navigate through their internships at a wide array of organizations that work with the preservation and access of moving image and sound collections.

VidiPax LLC was founded in 1990 to provide preservation reformatting services to the archival community for moving image and sound collections.These services include traditional preservation/restoration of original elements; triage/ recovery of fragile, damaged or deteriorated originals; forensic analysis and reformatting; standards/ format conversion; evidentiary investigation, processing and analysis; sonic/ visual restoration; forensic and broadcast preparation; disaster recovery.

Sampleheads produces high end sample libraries focused on acoustic instruments and highlighting world class musicians recorded in world class studios. Sampleheads sample libraries are unique in both their quality and range of content. At Sampleheads Chris was the chief audio engineer taking on all responsibilities from recording, sample selection, editing, data management and comprehensive complex programming of every sampler operating system in existence.

Recording, mixing and mastering music. Radio, television and film post-production.

Ultrasuede Studio is one of the only “classic" studio rooms left in Cincinnati. Originally known as QCA Studio A, the rooms were designed in the late 1970's by David Harrison, who also designed and built the original studio console. During those early years, the studio hosted everything from gospel to R&B to rock to The USAF Marching Band. Bootsy Collins (who gave Babyface his now-famous nickname during a session in Studio A), George Clinton and Bernie Worell did many sessions here during the post P-Funk era. Billy Preston was another frequent client. Teddy Pendergrass cut some tracks here, too. The control room was redesigned in the early 1980’s by Jeff Cooper, who wrote the book "Building a Recording Studio".Chris "cut his teeth" at Ultrasuede assisting and engineering tracking and mix sessions. He was later hired as a mastering engineer at QCA with the good fortune of having Dave Davis as a mentor and teacher.

Sonic Arts provides audio production services to filmmakers, independent producers of dramatic television, documentaries and short subjects, production companies serving the museum and theme park industry, advertising agencies, and digital content creators; offering audio post to picture, radio spot production, voiceover recording and 5.1 surround and custom multi-channel format mixing. Additional services include original music scoring, custom sound design/development, project management, voice casting, and ISDN capability. Sonic Arts is where I attained a wealth of audio post-production knowledge. Under the mentoring of John McDaniel I became an expert at ProTools (before ProTools was everywhere) and learning to troubleshoot, which later paved the way for my move to New York City.

Business

Specialized Associates Degree, Audio Engineering

Certificate, Audio And Video Forensics