Joe Bear
Creator, Performer, Architect, Implementer, Leader, Facilitator.
Creating high tech products is my vocation. Creating music is my avocation. Somewhere in between is a love for recording and sound reinforcement.
Entrepreneurial in mindset, I enjoy collaborating with others in a variety of roles.
As a musician, I am most adept as a guitarist. There are not many in this region that are quantifiably better than me at pop styles. Rock, Country, Blues, Funk, etc.
Compositionally, my main strengths are as arranger and texturalist.
I also sing and play most fretted instruments quite well, and am not too bad at keyboard and drums. And I play a mean mixer...
...Which brings me to tech services. I operate a sound reinforcement company. I do turnkey sound production for clients ranging from small bands, to Boulder County, CU, and IBM.
To support all this activity, I own all the equipment one would expect to be required for such gigs. To use sound reinfocement as an example:
- Eight-box EAW mains with 25,000 Watts QSC Tour Grade power.
- Ten-box JBL and Mackie monitors - bi- and quad-amped.
- Multiple 96-ch digital boards.
- Dozens of industry-standard mics and DIs.
- Late-model 15' box truck
All this equipment, from backline to transportation, is professional quality and well maintained.
While I do not do AV, staging or lighting at this point, I work with a number of independent specialists in this area. In this manner, I can take a client's vision and see it through to completion.
I hope you think of me when you need a friendly and capable collaborator be it a hired-gun sideman musician or full production services.