“The Telling Takes Us Home” strives for the highest artistic and technical quality in everything we do. We wish to thank the following companies who have generously donated audio equipment, software, and services that help make our efforts successful. You can visit their web sites to learn more about their products and services.

Spiral Studios
14071 Mt Auburn Circle
Nevada City, CA 95959-8611
530-470-0830
www.spiral.com
Talented web designers and producers John Paul and Chip Carman live and work in Nevada City, California. They love and appreciate the value of family storytelling and graciously offered to donate their server time and skills to help develop this web site.

Apogee Electronics
3145 Donald Douglas Loop South
Santa Monica, CA 90405-3210
310-915-1000
www.apogeedigital.com
Apogee is a leader in the field of digital audio processors. The challenge is convert the subtle beauty and warmth of the human voice into digital information that can then be easily edited on a computer and printed on a compact disc. We use the Apogee "Rosetta" Analog-to-Digital converter to achieve this goal.

Audix Corporation
PO 4010
Wilsonville, OR 97070
800-966-8261
www.audixusa.com
Made in Oregon, these folks make some of the finest and affordable microphones available anywhere. We use an Audix large diaphragm condenser microphone when recording stories out on the road as well as an Audix dynamic microphone.

BIAS, Inc.
1370 Industrial Ave., Suite A
Petaluma, CA 95952
707-782-1866
www.bias-inc.com
These nice folks produce great digital editing, processing, mixing, and mastering software applications for the Macintosh. Peak 4 helps us edit our stories and convert them to MP3 files for use on the internet. We use Deck 3.5 to mix our introductions and music segments for radio broadcasts.

Digidesign
1360 Willow Rd.
Suite 101
Menlo Park, CA 94025
650-842-7900
www.digidesign.com
Digidesign is a division of Avid Technologies. They make digital audio workstation software. Decisions on donations of their equipment to efforts such as ours are made by a committee of employees. We use their Audiomedia III card in our Mac computer along their Protools and Sound Designer software.

Event Electronics
PO Box 4189
Santa Barbara, CA 93140
Rode Microphones
805-566-7777
www.event1.com
Event makes speakers, computer interfaces, and microphones. When in the studio, we use their Rode "Classic" microphone. Made in Australia, the Classic uses an internal vacuum tube to produce an incredibly rich and appealing sound.

Oasis Duplication
PO Box 721
Flint Hill, VA 22627
888-296-2747
www.oasiscd.com
This company produces audio CDs for a number of well-known musicians and organizations around the country. A composer friend of ours recommended them to us and they are very professional and helpful.

Presonus Audio Electronics
7257 Florida Blvd.
Baton Rouge, LA 70806
800-750-0323
www.presonus.com
Analog audio processors and microphone preamplifiers are what these folks do best. We use their "VXP" mic preamp on the road and in the studio which includes a number of wonderful features such as smart compression, de-essing, equalization, and limiting.

Stedman Corporation
4167 Stedman Dr.
Richland, MI 49083
888-629-5960
www.stedmancorp.com
A small company with a great new product, Stedman makes a metal "pop" filter that eliminates the distortion that sometimes occurs when recording someone speaking.

MacSpeech, Inc.
50A Northwestern Drive Suite 109
Salem, NH 03079
(603) 350-0903
www.macspeech.com
This company donated their speech-recognition software so we can transcribe some of the recorded stories.