Dan Dugan (audio engineer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Dan Dugan (audio engineer)

First sound designer; inventor of the automixer

Date of Birth: 20-Mar-1943

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Profession: engineer, audio engineer, inventor, sound designer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Dan Dugan (audio engineer)

  • Dan Dugan (born March 20, 1943) is an American audio engineer, inventor, and nature sounds recordist.
  • He was the first person in regional theatre to be called a sound designer, and he developed the first effective automatic microphone mixer: the automixer.
  • Dugan's sound design work was acknowledged in 2003 with a Distinguished Career Award by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology. In his youth, Dugan was fascinated by the technical aspects of theatre.
  • He worked as a lighting designer then transitioned to sound design in 1967.
  • Dugan became interested in achieving the automatic adjustment of sound controls after a frustrating experience staging the musical Hair.
  • His first automixer design was not fully practical but his second design was successful; it used a reference derived from a total of all of its microphone signals.
  • Dugan devised a third improvement which helped prevent audio feedback in the presence of sound reinforcement loudspeakers.
  • Dugan next produced an automixer design that could be inserted into an existing mixing console.
  • This proved popular for broadcast and live sound applications.
  • Each of Dugan's subsequent automixer models has been of the insertable type. Dugan first recorded sounds in the late 1960s to augment his sound designs.
  • He continued making recordings, concentrating on capturing the sounds of nature.
  • Dugan records outdoors in a variety of locations including national parks and nature preserves.
  • He has assisted in research related to the harmful effects of human-generated sound in nature.
  • Dugan is a co-founder and current secretary of People for Legal and Nonsectarian Schools (PLANS), a California non-profit organization incorporated in 1997.

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