User:Riprowan

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Bio
Rip Rowan is a musician and audio engineer located in Dallas, TX. Rip co-owns and operates a commercial multitrack studio located near downtown Dallas. Pleasantry Lane is Rip's dream studio and serves as the recording home of Dallas' musical elite. Co-owner Salim Nourallah has won numerous Dallas Music Awards including Producer of the Year (2x), Album of the Year, Artist of the Year, and others.

Rip and a team of editors and contributors also publish an online magazine dedicated since 1998 to advancing the cause of digital audio recording. ProRec is a labor of love by engineers, for engineers. In 2006 ProRec was almost lost in a freak backup / restore fiasco, but was recovered thanks to old backups and the amazing archives produced by the Wayback Machine. Originally created as an award-winning Domino web site, ProRec is now hosted on the DotNetNuke platform, an amazing open-source tool with incredible support.

In 2002 Rip wrote the seminal article on overuse of limiting and compression in audio mastering. While not the first to point out the problem, Rip's article broke new ground by making the topic accessible to mainstream listeners who could finally understand an explanation for why their CDs were all starting to sound so terrible. "Over the Limit" has been viewed by millions of readers and is referenced by thousands of web pages. The article has been reprinted in Wired and Slashdotted to death. It has also been referenced by Wikipedia on the Vapor Trails and Dynamic Range Compression articles, and formed the basis of the WP Loudness War article.

Rip began programming almost 30 years ago and is technically fluent with many different silicon minds. He holds a bachelor's degree in MIS from Texas A&M University and an MBA in Information Systems Management from the University of Texas at Austin. He still does software development every now and then, when the need is great. Rip is a skilled systems integrator and has worked with many different integration technologies and platforms. Rip loathes turnkey ERPs with a mad passion but will work on them if he must.

Rip's business and systems engineering prowess are noteworthy: three of his projects have been nominated for the prestigious Smithsonian / Computerworld Honors Award: TI Tomorrow (Texas Instruments, Inc.)

Best Practices Sharing (Texas Instruments, Inc.)

Building Scheduler Program (Centex Homes, Inc.)

Rip doesn't usually refer to himself in the third person like Bob Dole. It's just how he was trained to write bios.

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