Brent Gabrielsen

Mr. Gabrielsen at an early age had an interest in audio
electronics and the arts. At the age of 12 he constructed his first
small powered radio station. The stations evolved through grade
school and high school, moved to and from various friends homes, and
gave them a platform to interview music groups including; The Who,
Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, and the Cream.


In high school he worked for various commercial broadcast
stations as a Technician, DJ, and Music Director. Stations included
KMND (now KDKB), KCAC (now KISS), KDOT (now KSLX) and KNIX. In 1968
at KNIX he was Music Director for one of the countries first
"free form underground" stations. At that time Brent
produced live local band recordings for broadcast. The group the
Tubes utilized some of these tapes as part of there audition for A
& M records.


His studies at Mesa Community College and Arizona State
University included Electronics Technology, Electrical Engineering,
and Music. In 1971 he successfully passed the FCC examination for
the First Class Commercial Radio Telephone License. It was during
this period that Brent was commissioned to design/build electronic
music instruments for various artists and institutions. Custom
Instruments included polyphonic electronic music synthesizer,
percussion synthesizer, and programmable control device for analog
synthesizers. The last two items were presented and published in the
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. After college Mr.
Gabrielsen was employed for 3 years by Motorola as a semiconductor
technician in the T2L digital and Linear R/D groups.


In 1975 he opened Gabriel Sound & Engineering to meet the
needs of a large range of groups for practical audio services. The
early years included design/build custom projects including mixing
consoles and amplifiers for institutions and performers. In the late
70's Brent was on staff at Phoenix's Celebrity theatre as the house
monitor mixer and Tempe, Arizona's Dooleys as the technical
director. Also Gabriel Sound provided and operated rental sound
systems for various events including the world renowned Paradise
Valley and Mexico Jazz Parties . A partial list of the groups and
performers Brent's has had the opportunity to work with include, in
no particular order; Be Bop Deluxe, America, Harry Chapin, Oh
Calcutta, Leo Sayer, George Carlin, Major Holley, Roger Kellaway,
Tower of Power, Buck Owens, Van Halen, Kenny Loggins, Natalie Cole,
Alvin Lee, Jimmy Buffett, Herb Ellis, Buddy Tate, Milt Hinton, Bobby
Rosengarden, Dick Hyman, Al Grey, Bill Watrous, Jay Mcshann, War,
Ken Scott, George Crumb, Todd Rundgren, Police, and Al Green. A
sixteen track recording studio was designed and constructed for
commercial clients including Audio Express, Doug Clark Productions,
KIR Films, and numerous bands.


Introductory Recording classes and House of Worship soundman
techniques seminars were also taught to over 500 students in the
Gabriel Studios. During this period Brent wrote articles and reviews
for various trade publications including Broadcast and The Audio
Amateur.


With all of the invaluable hands-on experience that had been
gained in the mid 1980's Brent focused attention towards sales,
service and installation of A/V systems. A low voltage
intercommunications contractors license was obtained along with
several professional audio lines. Early on Brent recognized the
importance of utilizing the Techron TEF10 time, energy, and
frequency audio analyzer for design of sound systems in acoustic
spaces.


Mr. Gabrielsen has designed\built numerous houses of worship,
city council chambers, auditoriums, meeting halls, and board room
A/V systems. Some of the more unusual projects include under water
sound system, drive-up church radio transmission system, Custom
measurement equipment designed for a University Speech & Hearing
dept., and custom military flight line intercommunications
systems.  He has consulted for several Speaker manufactures,
NYC recording studios, and church organizations.


Prior to his staff job at ASU, he installed and maintained
equipment for various ASU departments including, Memorial Union,
Speech and Hearing, Music, Book Store, and Baseball Stadium.


In 1984 he accepted a new staff position of Senior Electronics
Technician, with the ASU, Music department in Tempe.  He was
ask to self direct and manage all aspects of this new line including
establishing a budget, consulting and advising for all media needs,
and execution of services.  In 2007 he was reclassified to the
position of Technical Director since the Electronics Technician
classification had been dropped from the state universities system.