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Joel has been immersed in the comedy world for over 18 years. He is currently the Program Director of Slacker Radio's 2 Comedy Channels and worked as XM Satellite Radio's
Comedy Director from February 2001 until 2009. As the creator and
architect of XM Comedy and Laugh USA, Joel screened more comedy CD's
than anybody in the business. A lot of them were poorly produced with
sound quality issues. He was astounded that so many good
comedians had such crappy sounding live CD's. He couldn't play these
comedians on XM due to poor sounding audio. This
literally drove Joel nuts. What other genre of entertainment put out
such poorly produced products? This lit a fire. He would raise the
standards of the stand-up recording industry by learning and mastering
every aspect of stand-up comedy recording and producing.
Joel
recorded his first live comedy shows for XM airplay in early 2002.
Initially he used a 2 track portable DAT recorder, a simple mixing
board, and a couple of good quality microphones to capture the crowd.
He was on his way. He was creating original content for airplay and helping great comedians put out professional sounding CD's.
Over
the years, Joel rarely turned down a live recording gig, constantly
upgrading his equipment. He now uses at least 8 high quality
microphones to capture crowds. For the comedian, he switches out the
house microphone for a high quality wireless mic. He records every
microphone onto a separate track on a laptop with Pro Tools, the
industry standard for audio recording. He personally mixes, masters and
edits all of these recordings.
As
of February 2010 Joel has recorded over 205 live comedy shows in venues
that seat 25 to 2500. He's mixed, mastered and produced over 150
commercially released CD's and produced hundreds of performances for XM Satellite Radio, several record labels, and for comedian's archives. He has worked with Comedy Central Records, BBC Radio, Uproar Records, and comedians such as Kevin Nealon, Jim Gaffigan, Louis C.K., Frank Caliendo, Lewis
Black, Bobby Slayton, Mike Birbiglia, Gabriel Iglesias, Dick Gregory,
Pablo Francisco, Jake Johannsen, Tony Rock, Bob Marley and Doug
Stanhope.
Visit Hahaas.com to see what Joel has been up to lately...
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