Long & McQuade Learning Series - Oshawa, ON

Thursday, March 19 | 6:00pm

Audio-Technica Presents Microphone Techniques 101
With Warren Cooper

Join host Warren Cooper as he discusses how to capture your best audio with the right mic, placement and other techniques. The knowledge taught is applicable to live or studio situations, and houses of worship. Topics covered will include microphone basics, preamps, techniques, accessories, plus much more.

 

Saturday, March 21 | 2:00pm

Tone Shaping with Guitar Pedals
With Noah van Hezewyk

Unlock the full potential of your pedalboard by learning how to shape your guitar tone for live performance, recording sessions, and rehearsals. Explore gain staging, EQ, effect stacking, and signal chain to create tones that cut through a mix, sit properly in a band setting, and translate across different environments.

Noah van Hezewyk has worked at Long & McQuade Oshawa for four years and is an active gigging and recording guitarist. He writes and performs with local bands Static Point and Vulpecula, bringing hands-on experience in live and studio tone development.
 

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Tuesday, March 31 | 6:30pm

Mixing Seminar
With Richard Chycki

The RUSH “50 Something” tour hits stages across Canada in 2026. Richard Chycki, their legendary audio engineer, brings his mix secrets, toolbox and stories to four Toronto area Long & McQuade stores. Rich will dissect a classic Rush song, discuss the plugins and mix process and rebuild it using modern techniques and best practices. Having remixed much of their material in Atmos, Rich will discuss what this has meant for their catalogue and how it is listened to today.

Richard Chycki is a multi-platinum mixer and engineer whose clients include such rock royalty as Rush, Aerosmith, Dream Theater, Skillet, Mick Jagger, Alice Cooper, Pink and many more.

Known for his pioneering mix work in multichannel audio, prog icons Rush entrusted Chycki to remix the multi-million selling 2112, their career pinnacle Moving Pictures, as well as A Farewell To Kings, Hemispheres, Signals, Snakes & Arrows and Fly By Night, as well as mixing Moving Pictures in Dolby Atmos plus releases for Evanescence and Alice In Chains. While rock acts Dream Theater, Skillet, Simple Plan and Our Lady Peace had also tapped his surround mix talents, other genres have caught word, most notably for DVD releases with Tyrese, Shaggy and Sean Paul.
 

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