Martin Jalleh's Talk

A talk by Martin Jalleh was held at Holy Trinity Church in conjunction with the Year of the Family (2nd Year on Family of Hope) was the entire talk was recorded using: a) Alesis I/O 2 Audio Interface b) M-Audio 2-Track Recorder (as backup) c) Cubase LE on a MacBook (with 4GB Memory). It was our first trial with this system and it worked like a charm.

c l i c k o n i m a g e t o e n l a r g e

c l i c k o n i m a g e t o e n l a r g e

c l i c k o n i m a g e t o e n l a r g e

c l i c k o n i m a g e t o e n l a r g e

(Joshua - the youngest Sound Engineer)

c l i c k o n i m a g e t o e n l a r g e

Do give me a ring if you would like to acquire the CD for this talk.

Cats FM at Lot 287, Jalan Bako

Cats FM...Just For You has finally moved from the old faithful building at Wisma Ting Pek Khiing after being there since 1996. It was a mixed emotion feeling for some of the staff who had been serving ever since day one. The first Live Broadcast from the new building commenced on 1st January 2008 in conjunction with the New Year Celebration and was broadcasted in 4 Different Languages. It was a fantastic experience for me to be serving with a team of dedicated, motivated who are always filled with fun fun fun and loving people here! My one word to decribe my relationship with the people at Cats? It would be 'Family' Below are some of the pictures (taken from the website at http://www.cats.fm/) taken during the Soft Opening on 9th January 2008.

c l i c k o n i m a g e t o e n l a r g e

c l i c k o n i m a g e t o e n l a r g e

c l i c k o n i m a g e t o e n l a r g e

c l i c k o n i m a g e t o e n l a r g e

With a wall-up area of more that 2,000 sq.m, this station also provides services for Voice Over Recording and Post Production. Cats FM will be renting out their Multi Purpose Hall which will be able to host up to 1,000 people.

Do feel free contact us at +6082-311799 for further enquiries.

Mother's Day Practise!

We had the first Mother's Day Celebration Practise yesterday evening where the kids will be performing the Song by 'Spice Girls' titled MAMA! which will be presented on 9th May 2008 during the Friday General Community Gathering. It's was really fun working with the kids in the Community!

c l i c k o n i m a g e t o e n l a r g e

c l i c k o n i m a g e t o e n l a r g e

(Joanne being the Facilitator for this Practise)

c l i c k o n i m a g e t o e n l a r g e

(Joshua concentrating on the wordings)

c l i c k o n i m a g e t o e n l a r g e

(Tiffany...'I know, I look good in blue')

c l i c k o n i m a g e t o e n l a r g e

(Joshua getting his reward for being good in class...hrmmmm...yum yum)

Do feel free to drop by and join us at St Joseph's Parish Centre, Kuching, Sarawak every Friday at 8:00pm. The Bread of Life is a Family Based Community which is opened to all with programmes for all Familys and Individuals ranging from children, youths, single adults and adults. See you there and God Bless!

Sape by Alena M of Anak Adi Rurum

I remembered the first time I met the Murang family in St Joseph's Cathedral. It was on one occasion where the Children Ministry asked me to attend one of their practises - for a christmas play during a homily I think. They they were both Joel and Alena and yup, at that time, they were much smaller and of course shorter than myself....

Anyway, I got the opportunity to work with Alena and her Performing Band namely Anak Adi Rurum where they performed for the 10th Anniversary of the Borneo Rainforest World Music Festival last year and they will be perfoming again at this year's Rainforest.

c l i c k o n i m a g e t o e n l a r g e

(Alena on a Sape)

The person in charge of them - Nikki Lugun - came to us and acquired our service to record some of the songs in which will most likely to be release during the Rainforest. It was a fun and exciting experience for the girls as most of them have never been in a Recording Studio. Further to that, it was also their first time in a local radio station (Cats FM).

c l i c k o n i m a g e t o e n l a r g e

(An Antique Modified Sape with Pickup)

According to Nikki, it is actually taboo for girls to actually touch and play the Sape as tradition has it that only Man are allowed to use this traditional instrument. However, most of the younger generation are not interested to learn how to play the Sape which makes it almost an extinct instrument like some of the other traditional instruments which is found in the museum, but on one knows how to play it.

c l i c k o n i m a g e t o e n l a r g e
(mBox2 top; Samson Headphone Amp bottom)

Anyway, it also gave us a chance to test our recently acquired mBox2 which is running on Pro Tools Software and I would like to think that Kamarul (our Production Manager) would agree that it's one rock solid kicking hardware for recording - well even though it's only a 2-track recorder.

We are hoping to proceed further with the installation of Pro Tools HD and to start with at least a 32-Track Recording Interface and gradually up-grade from there.

Do visit our website at http://www.cats.fm/ and if you're interested to know more you can send an e-mail request to our Production Manager - En. Kamarul - at aneeqafeeq@yahoo.com

A Visit to RTM Kuching, Sarawak

I was invited by representatives from Klotz Digital Asia this afternoon to browse through the newly installed Digital Consoles & other equipments in RTM's latest upgrades.

c l i c k o n i m a g e t o e n l a r g e

(One of the Consoles by Klotz - DCII)

c l i c k o n i m a g e t o e n l a r g e
(Digidesign Control 24 - Focusrite)

Anyway, pretty decent cool equipments that RTM have installed. They've got Genelacs hooked-up in every single studio.